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Messy Hospitality

Changing Communities Through Fun, Food, Friendship and Faith

by Lucy Moore

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: BRF (The Bible Reading Fellowship)
  • 13 x 19.8 x 1.4 cm

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Want to unearth the spirit that underpins Messy Church?

This book explores how hospitality is a vital trait to sharing God's word

The perfect book for growing your church's outreach

From the brilliant minds behind the trailblazing 'Messy Church' comes a wholly new approach to hospitality and welcoming.
Anna Hockley

Anna Hockley

Eden Christian Books Specialist

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It's time to get messy again with Lucy Moore's new book, Messy Hospitality.

If you haven't heard of Messy Church before, then listen up. Messy Church is 'a way of being church for families and others based around welcome, crafts and art, celebration and eating together'.

It's Church without the Church-iness.

It's food. It's crafts. It's stories and it's community.

And now it's moved beyond the Church building. Messy Hospitality takes the art of hospitality, of welcoming in people and showing love to families, and brings it into the home. Lucy Moore takes the theology of hospitality and lays in on the tables we sit at when we eat, talk, make stuff, pray, and worship.

Messy Hospitality and Messy Prayer
Messy PrayerMessy Hospitality

  • Author

    Lucy Moore

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    BRF (The Bible Reading Fellowship)

  • Published

    April 2016

  • Weight

    200g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    13 x 19.8 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780857464156

  • ISBN-10

    0857464159

  • Eden Code

    4314402

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Contents

Introduction: Why hospitality?

1. Hospitality at the welcome table
2. Hospitality at the activity table
3. Hospitality at the Lord's table
4. Hospitality at the meal table
5. Hospitality in a Messy home
6. Hospitality to grow your team
7. Team training session on hospitality
8. Learning from the hospitality industry
9. Boundaries

Messy Church sessions on hospitality

Abraham and the three visitors

The meals Jesus ate

The Last Supper

The early church

The heavenly home

Conclusion: Not shutting the door but opening it

Bibliography

In this book Lucy Moore, the pioneer of Messy Church, explores the Christian principle of hospitality. She addresses the theology of hospitality and how it can be expressed at the welcome table, the activity table, the Lord's Table, the meal table, and in the home. Also included is learning from the secular hospitality industry, how to train Messy Church teams in hospitality, and five session plans for Messy Churches. Each section contains audit-style questions for the reader to apply in their own context.

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