Saturday, March 9
9:00 AM -3:00 PM | Summit | Upper House
Gather to explore what Hospitality as Justice can look like and already does look like in our community.
8:30 AM - Doors open
9:00 AM - Summit begins with Plenary 1
10:25 AM - Break
10:40 - Plenary 2
11:50 - Lunch Break
1:00 - Breakout Sessions
2:00 - Panel
3:00 - Commissioning and End
HOSTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Dinner Groups | Homes across the county
Come together with other Christians for a delicious meal and a justice-centered liturgy around the table. Attendees will be grouped based on proximity to the host until locations are at capacity. Both adult only and kid-friendly options available.
Hospitality as Justice?
The practice of hospitality is found throughout the story of the Bible and was considered an essential practice within the early Church. At the Summit we will explore what it means to recapture a richer view of hospitality and how hospitality has the power to transform our lives and our neighborhoods.
Plenary Sessions:
Plenary 1: Dislocation and Kinship: Stranger, Neighbor, Family with Aaron White and Michel Boissonneault
We live in an era of mass dislocation - physical, psychological, social and spiritual - and the consequences are profound. Can we move from strangers, to neighbors, to family?
Radical Welcome: Hospitality as Divine Resistance with Andy Kim
In a world marked by hostility, hospitality stands as a divine act of resistance. How can we embody God's radical welcome in every facet of our lives as we work for the transformation of our communities?
Breakout sessions:
The Art of Cross-Cultural Hospitality with Andy Kim
Explore essential skills for navigating diverse cultural landscapes, fostering radical inclusion, and creating welcoming communities.
Come to the Land: The Reciprocity of Healing Spaces with Kriss Marion
Kriss was sick when she felt the call to the countryside. She instinctively felt that her body, made tender by RA, would feel better surrounded by green space. But she had felt called to minister in Chicago decades earlier, so deciding to move her family from their two-flat and a church plant was complicated. During the rest imposed by her illness, Kriss embarked on a rural literary journey – kicked off by a series of Wendell Berry essays – that ignited a call to not just live on the land and be healed but to participate in the land’s healing. Learn how her family used CSA and Farmstay to invite others into that reciprocal relationship.
Living out Every Day Hospitality with Rebeca Stenson
Have you ever wanted to express God’s heart of hospitality but felt that before you could do so, you had to know more or be more? In this breakout, we will take time to identify, appreciate, and understand how to better utilize the gifts that God has already given you and the tools that you already have in your hand to communicate God’s welcoming heart of hospitality meaningfully. We will identify common obstacles to expressing hospitality and form strategies to see those obstacles overcome. We will look at practical rhythms of hospitality and share inspiration for utilizing the gifts and talents God has given you to express a heart of welcome.
Changing the Face of Leadership One Impacted Person at a Time with Aaron Hicks
Join in for a discussion around Nehemiah’s Reentry work and how the church can create welcoming spaces that restore dignity and give voice to the voiceless.
Embracing Love Through Service: A Journey of Faith and Community with Andy and Jenny Czerkas
Discover the heart of the Czerkas' ministry and 28-year mission to share God's unconditional love through acts of humble, non-judgmental service. Learn how they've nurtured community, provided for people in need, and fostered meaningful relationships. From low-income communities to specializing in immigrant and refugee support, their journey includes the founding of 5 food pantries, with their current project, Extended Hands Pantry, at Lighthouse Church and School. Join them for a compelling and inspiring exploration of love in action.
Recovering: Addiction and Beatitude Community with Aaron White and Michel Boissonneault
Aaron and Michel are friends in Vancouver’s DTES who have taken a long recovery journey together: one that involves addiction, treatment, struggle, sorrow, faith, hospitality, and family. In the age of a devastating Opioid Crisis, and other widespread addictions, what does the Church have to offer? How can and should the Church interact with societal responses? What is the measure and cost of biblical, beatitude community? We will be guided by Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount to examine the liberation and hope into which God is inviting us.