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Hospitality is a gift we Lutherans have always offered our communities. Indeed, Martin Luther regularly brought people together around food and wine for his famous ‘Table Talk’. Much of Jesus’ interaction with people happened around food too.
Operation Connect will offer you resources to use hospitality to connect with family, friends and community.
The Longest Lutheran Lunch on Sunday 28 October is entrée to give you a taste, with the main course of Operation Connect . Bon appétit!
Masterchef. My Kitchen Rules. Poh’s Kitchen. Jamie, Nigella … seems our lives are full of food and foodies these days.
Yet we Lutherans have been doing great food ‘forever’.
That’s why to link up with Operation Connect (the Lutheran Church’s hospitality initiative) you and your congregation are invited to hold a Longest Lutheran Lunch.
The idea is to have the ‘longest’ in three ways:
1 - Sit at tables in a single long row
2 - Take your time and have a long leisurely meal together
3 - Have meals going the long way from New Zealand right across Australia to finish in Western Australia!
When? What better time than Reformation Sunday –
28 OCTOBER – when we celebrate in a special way God’s gift
of grace, and the insights that make us distinctively Lutheran!
Simply create the meal your congregation specialises in – German Feast, African Celebration, South African BBQ, Slovak Smorgasbord… it’s up to you! Then invite along friends and family!
