From March 23 – 29, we’ll be celebrating our 1,000th neighborhood feast – and the countless people who have been lifted. In addition to our typical 5-course meal complemented by live musicians and artists, we’ll have cupcakes, balloons, and a look back at our simple beginnings seven years ago. If you can’t join us during the week, you are invited to a special Sunday brunch! For more details, read the full press release below.
PRESS RELEASE:
March 21, 2015
Community Dinners – Seattle is celebrating their 1000th dinner gathering on Sunday March 29th @ 10:30am at the Bitterlake Community Center located on 130th & Linden Ave North (followed by a free brunch at 12 noon).
Community Dinners is a 92 year-old church that decided to go back to the way the first followers of Christ used to do church 1900 years ago – around large dinner tables. In the past seven years, the group has shifted from a traditional church and started opening these free dinners in Seattle neighborhoods that has now grown to serving over 900 people per week in the Bitterlake, Pike Place Market, Ballard, Fremont, and Greenwood neighborhoods. These dinners are actually Dinner Churches that include abundant buffet tables, live artists painting on canvas, live musicians, and short inspirational stories from the life Christ.
This upcoming day of celebration (29th) will include a retelling of how these dinner communities developed, introductions of the different dinner teams, cooking teams, musicians, artists, and culminate with a presentation from the Northwest Ministry Network leader acknowledging the unusual growth of the Dinner Churches throughout the city. Further highlights will be the national and international growth of the Dinner Church approach and the many leaders that have visited and observed the Seattle story, to return to their own cities and open their own Dinner Churches.