"Picture your table. It’s a place where bread is broken, stories are shared, and strangers become siblings. It’s a place where greens and cornbread meet gospel and grit. Your table is not just a piece of furniture, it’s a sacred stage, because in the Black church tradition, the table has always been more than a meal. It’s been a ministry. That’s because hospitality isn’t just about food, it’s about faith. It’s about making room for the miraculous in the mundane. From hush harbors to homecomings, from fish fries to foot-washings, hospitality has always been our heritage.

However, it seems that increasingly, we are living in a world of locked doors and guarded hearts. We are being driven apart by planted suspicions and provoked divisions...by festering fear and fractured trust. But today we have the opportunity to change all that."