The Welcome Table

Don't forget to join us tomorrow for our Fellowship Gathering and to hear from the Housing Development Corporation of Rock Hill!

Can we meet fear with rest? Read more in this week’s newsletter.

This Week at The Welcome Table - Meeting Fear with Rest July 25, 2024 Meeting Fear with Rest Center for Action and Contemplation When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing, but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came f

Come check out our newsletter this week as we explore what it means to move beyond the polarization of our day and into unity.

This Week at The Welcome Table - Life Beyond Sunday July 18, 2024 Life Together Beyond Sunday Religion and Social Activism By Charles E. Moore How would you go about destroying community, isolating people from one another and from a life shared with ot

We’re so grateful for all our volunteers who help us do the many things needed to get ready for our gatherings and so much more! Thanks to each and every one who contributes to this community! (And thanks to Julie and Steve for being willing to have their picture taken. 📸)

At today’s Prayer Gathering at Bethel Shelters Day Shelter, someone shared a story that reminded me of how transformative it can be within ourselves to show love and care to another. So reach out. Make a connection. Be someone’s God Sighting. And you’ll see God as well. - Brandon

This week at The Welcome Table, we are listening for what God is calling us to do.

This Week at The Welcome Table - What is God calling you to do? July 11, 2024 A Call to Awakening Center for Action and Contemplation What, then, does it mean to follow Jesus? History is continually graced with people who somehow learned to act beyond and outside

Trucks, trailers and able bodies needed: Our CBFSC Mission Partner, The Off Ramp, has a project on August 3 and they need help. On that day, they will distribute furniture and mattresses to recently arrived International teachers in the Rock Hill School District, about 20 people. They need volunteers with trucks/trailers who can help them get the furniture to the apartments and able bodies to help them move it. The volunteers will need to be at The Off Ramp by 7:30 a.m. to help move and arrange furniture so that teachers can see what is available and then help deliver the furniture. The deliveries should be finished by noon. Those willing to help should contact Nell Green, [email protected], and she will provide more details.

Come sing with us tomorrow at 10:30am, here on Facebook or in person!

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?

“I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.”

~Frederick Douglass

Social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and writer. After escaping from enslavement in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement. In the icon he points to the North Star. Which is captioned by the Greek initials for “Jesus Christ”

Prints: kellylatimoreicons.com

This week at The Welcome Table, we recognize and celebrate our interdependence and connection with one another, as well as our independence.

This Week at The Welcome Table - We celebrate our interdependence July 4, 2024 Interdependence Day by Joe Kay | Sojourners As we celebrate our nation’s independence this week, it’s good that we also celebrate our interdependence. Everything that we do, everything th

At The Welcome Table, love isn't conditional. Belonging isn't just a word. Welcome isn't only a greeting - it's our name. And our name matters.

We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow in person or online at 10:30!

This week at The Welcome Table, we are exploring the ways we stand up to and overcome giants, however they show up in our lives.

This Week at The Welcome Table - Standing Up to Giants June 27, 2024 Finding Strength to Overcome by Joseph Yoo There seems to be a persistent narrative within the church that everything is supposed to be fine and dandy after you believe that Jesus Christ

Bethel Shelters offers shelter for those experiencing homelessness in our community. We are open daily from 8:30am - 5:30pm for men and women over the age of 18 to get out of the heat in our Day Shelter (546 S. Cherry Road, Rock Hill, SC 29732). Our Men’s Night Shelter is open from 6pm - 8am nightly. We are grateful to our community who supports the Shelters so that those in need have a safe place to go during the heat this summer! Visit our website to learn more - www.bethelshelters.org

Tomorrow at 10:30 we will return to our regular Worship Gathering in person and online. We are looking forward to seeing everyone!!

This week at The Welcome Table, we celebrate Juneteenth!

This Week at The Welcome Table -Juneteenth, A Time to Remember-A Time to Celebrate June 20, 2024 Juneteenth is both a cause for celebration and a call to action by Michael W. Waters In 1937, Opal Lee’s family purchased a home on Annie Street in Fort Worth, Texas. It should have bee

This month at The Welcome Table, we will celebrate Pride Month by sharing articles and resources to help us learn about what Pride Month represents and how we can stand with the LGBTQ+ community.

This Week at The Welcome Table - Despite Differences, Unity Matters June 6, 2024 Amid Read Disagreement, Christian Unity Still Matters by Adam Russel Taylor Sometimes the church can feel hopelessly divided: Disagreements around sexuality are splitting apart Protestan

This week at the Welcome Table, how can we take what we have learned about mental health out into the world?

This Week at The Welcome Table - Peace Over Troubled Waters May 30, 2024 Peace Over Troubled Waters by Marcella Rivera Content Warning: This blog contains references to child abuse. Over ten years ago, I started the journey of becoming an ordained pastor. I re