All are welcome at St Bride's Sunday morning service. We meet at 10am, followed by coffee at 11.15am and sometimes a shared lunch afterwards. Services use a variety of creative liturgy, and often follow a theme for each month. The last Sunday of each month is a joint service which moves around our three team churches so please keep an eye out for these! Sign up for our e-news to find out more about what's on at St Bride's at the bottom of our website home page: https://stbridesliverpool.org.uk/
Our service includes silence, song, creative prayer activities and discussion. We draw inspiration for our liturgies from the work of the Iona Community, Jim Cotter, the Progressive Christian Network, Bruce Sanguin, Inclusive Church, the St Hilda Community and more.
Open Table is our LGBTQIA worship community which meets at 6.30pm on the first and third Sunday of every month (refreshments and welcome at 6.00pm, sharing and support group after the service). Open Table is currently taking place on Zoom. All services and activities at St Bride's aim to offer a fully inclusive, nurturing and welcoming space to people, wherever they are on the spectrum, but "Open Table" is a particular focus for the Liverpool's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community at St Bride's. Contact Warren for more information [email protected] or call 07501 753618 or join the Open Table Facebook Group for regular updates and invitations
Celebrating Open Table’s 18th birthday with special guest Revd Steve Chalke
Occurring
for 1 hour
Venue
St Bride's
Address
Percy Street
Liverpool, L8 7LT, United Kingdom
YOU are invited to our eighteenth birthday celebration and communion service. YOU are more than welcome to come as you are.
In June 2008, six people gathered at the first Open Table service with a vision to start a regular communion service for the LGBTQIA+ community, family and friends. 18 years later, the Liverpool community has grown and is still going strong, and 36 other communities now meet across England and Wales, hosting hundreds more each month, and reaching thousands online, with more to come.
There is much to celebrate and much to look forward to! Join us for a celebration and thanksgiving communion service led by Revd Steve Chalke MBE.
Steve is a Baptist minister, broadcaster, author and social activist, best known as the founder of Oasis Charitable Trust and Stop the Traffik. Across more than four decades of ministry, Steve has worked to put faith into action through schools, community hubs, anti-trafficking work, church renewal and advocacy for those pushed to the margins.
Steve is also a long-standing advocate for the full inclusion of LGBT+ people in church life. In 2013, he published A Matter of Integrity, making a biblical and pastoral case for the full inclusion of LGBT+ Christians, including support for faithful same-sex relationships and equal marriage. Oasis Church Waterloo, where Steve was Founding Minister, is now known for its inclusive stance and regularly conducts same-sex marriages.
For Open Table Liverpool’s 18th birthday, Steve joins us as someone whose ministry has consistently centred justice, reconciliation and welcome.
Steve is no stranger to Open Table: In 2013 Open Table Liverpool hosted an open conversation with him on church, sexuality and inclusion
In 2015 he encouraged Open Table as it prepared to become a network through the Oasis Open Church conference
In 2017 he recorded a video message for the emerging Open Table Network’s first national gathering: Dreaming Around An Open Table.
We’re delighted to welcome him back as we celebrate 18 years of Open Table Liverpool and the start of the movement that became the Open Table Network!
Doors open at 6pm - refreshments will be served before the service at 6.30pm. The service will be followed by refreshments, and of course rainbow cake! If you can’t join us in Liverpool, you can also join us on Zoom
To join the gathering on zoom just click this link: (or copy and paste):
If you join on zoom, feel free to bring some bread and wine, biscuit & grape juice or any other combination you desire and we can share food together despite not being able to share sacramentally. There is no obligation though!
Please get in touch on [email protected] if you have any questions or would like more details.
Do try joining before 6.30pm if you are worried about connecting and someone will be available to help if we can.
Food for anyone in urgent need. Due to demand we can currently provide 3 days emergency food for everyone in your household, for up to 4 weeks in any 3 months. https://micahliverpool.com/ Micah also offers an employability programme running 3/4 times a year. The current situation is making it hard for the foodbank to buy in bulk, so please do help with donations if you possibly can. Money gifts can be made online. Food gifts can be donated at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral and Liverpool Parish Church. Thank you.
Micah Liverpool Food Bank
Every Thursday at 10 a.m. for 2 hours
Micah Liverpool Food Bank
Every Thursday at 10 a.m. for 2 hours
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