Open Table

The Triumph of Relationship
Over Poverty.

Vision: A movement of servants restoring people in poverty to our communities through relationship and the investment of our own vocational and life experiences and personal networks.

Mission:  Train congregations and their members, through the Open Table Model, to partner their vocational and life experiences with people in poverty to develop and implement plans that create sustainability and wholeness.

The Movement: A collaboration of faith communities, government, business and non-profits working through Open Table, a shared purpose model, to transform poverty to sustainability and wholeness

Community:  The Open Table process is the catalyst for the deployment of a Missional Community committed to the transformation of a family or individual in poverty.  However, the servants themselves are often the most transformed.  When the Open Table process is complete, these Missional Communities, having brought each other through the wilderness of poverty, where they collided with society’s false beliefs about the poor, become a new community in which the family or individual they helped is now unrecognizable from those who did the helping.  In many instances, individuals helped in Open Table return as servants helping the next family.