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Farm to faith: rooted in the soil and growing with grace
The Farm-to-Faith initiative of the Abundant Table includes Farm Church and other offerings such as the Interfaith Labor Day Harvest and immersive retreats for faith communities. We invite people of all faith and no-faith traditions to explore spirituality in connection with the land.
Farm Church
Join us as we seek to discover a progressive, inclusive and transforming faith through worship, study, community, food, farming, and service. Farm Church hosts worship gatherings followed by a shared meal (nearly) every week in a local space — it may be the farm, a community garden, a local church, a member’s home, or another community venue.
Contact us at farmchurch@theabundanttable.org to find out where church will be this week.
Our theological framework
The Abundant Table was born out of a recognition of the deep connection between our physical and spiritual needs. While we are rooted in a progressive, inclusive Judeo-Christian tradition, our work and ministry welcomes people from all perspectives and backgrounds.
Our Christian tradition, from which the Episcopal and Lutheran denominations draw, is rich with connections to the natural world, wellness and social justice. Our core values of love, justice and compassion invite us to respond in new and meaningful ways to questions of consumption, health and wellbeing.
In our work and ministry, we invite people consider questions like: Where did this food come from? How was it made? Who were the people involved in that process? Were the people treated fairly? Was the earth cared for carefully in the process? We also consider the stories about Sabbath and the Jubilee Year in our sacred texts that invite us to care for the land and assure that land, animals and workers rest and have enough food.
Through its theology and ministry, The Abundant Table strives to “spark a conversation” in the church and the world about the power of growing and sharing food, and the complexity of the associated health and equity issues linked to these processes. We also seek to be a land-based “experiential sanctuary” for the Christian Church, enabling people of faith to find enrichment for their spiritual journey through a land-based encounter with the sacred. Our desire as a faith based community is to work on the edges of the institutional church but not outside of it. We believe renewal of our religious, civic and ecological communities grows out of the marginal spaces of creativity, resistance and reconciliation. As humanity’s negative impact on the natural world grows with each passing year, our core values of love, justice and compassion invite us to respond in new and meaningful ways. The biblical instruction to care for the earth is given new life in the context of current ecological degradation.