Pray in for immigrants, steps of RI State House

The Open Table is an emerging church/community network in the spirit of John Wesley’s methodist tradition. We sense that all humans are broken in some way. We hunger and rejoice in open, conscious relationship with our Creator. When we connect with God, and/or the Way of Jesus, we change and are changed. Things get turned upside down. Some things that may have once been all important like the power of money or our own egos and much more become less important than the living out and deeper understanding of love. Our mission often changes - from primarily one of self-gratification, to one of solidarity and community with other life.

The lining up of our lives with God’s yearning for life is often called ‘holiness,’ or the setting apart of life for God’s way of justice and mercy and humility. At the OTC we follow the Wesleyan way of ‘social holiness’, that recognizes that God is not just seeking reconciled ‘individual souls’, but for humans together to form communities of love that take care of each other and tend to the balance of the whole earth.

Communion Under the Bridge at Tent City

So we follow a holiness that is social. We witness always, not just to mercy, but the strong demand for justice among the oppressed, and for wholeness for the earth. These things, we believe, are the things of God.

We take seriously God's mandate to work for justice in our neighborhood, our city, our state, our country and our world.