Open Table Network
@opentablelgbt.bsky.social
Partnership of #Christian communities across England & Wales welcoming & affirming #LGBTQIA people + our family & friends & anyone who wants to belong in an accepting, loving community.
www.opentable.lgbt
#ComeAsYouAre #MoreThanWelcome #FaithfullyLGBT
www.opentable.lgbt
#ComeAsYouAre #MoreThanWelcome #FaithfullyLGBT
STANDING TOGETHER for an #HIV-free world: A mass of solidarity, with homily by Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe OP this Saturday 6th December 3pm, Farm Street Church, Mount St, London W1. . UK #AIDS & #PositiveFaith Quilt panels on display 5th-15th December lgbtcatholicswestminster.org/upcoming-events
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
STANDING TOGETHER for an #HIV-free world: A mass of solidarity, with homily by Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe OP this Saturday 6th December 3pm, Farm Street Church, Mount St, London W1. . UK #AIDS & #PositiveFaith Quilt panels on display 5th-15th December lgbtcatholicswestminster.org/upcoming-events
'IT GIVES other people hope, even if it's not something they yet find on their doorstep, to know that it's possible, that it exists elsewhere, seems to be a sign of hope, that change is possible.'
In 2017 when this video was made we had 11 communities, now we have 39!
In 2017 when this video was made we had 11 communities, now we have 39!
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
'IT GIVES other people hope, even if it's not something they yet find on their doorstep, to know that it's possible, that it exists elsewhere, seems to be a sign of hope, that change is possible.'
In 2017 when this video was made we had 11 communities, now we have 39!
In 2017 when this video was made we had 11 communities, now we have 39!
👀 LOOK! #BigGive #ChristmasChallege Day 2 - We've passed 43% of our target!
You've donated £2,136 so far, doubled to £4,272 thanks to pledges and match funding. 🥳 🎉 Until 9th December ONLY, double the difference with one donation: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#RoomAtTheTable
You've donated £2,136 so far, doubled to £4,272 thanks to pledges and match funding. 🥳 🎉 Until 9th December ONLY, double the difference with one donation: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#RoomAtTheTable
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
👀 LOOK! #BigGive #ChristmasChallege Day 2 - We've passed 43% of our target!
You've donated £2,136 so far, doubled to £4,272 thanks to pledges and match funding. 🥳 🎉 Until 9th December ONLY, double the difference with one donation: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#RoomAtTheTable
You've donated £2,136 so far, doubled to £4,272 thanks to pledges and match funding. 🥳 🎉 Until 9th December ONLY, double the difference with one donation: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#RoomAtTheTable
DID YOU KNOW? 🧐
92% of our members say being part of an Open Table community increased their sense of belonging.
Your donation this week helps us keep those doors open.
And remember - whatever you give is MATCHED!
GIVE NOW: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #RoomAtTheTable
92% of our members say being part of an Open Table community increased their sense of belonging.
Your donation this week helps us keep those doors open.
And remember - whatever you give is MATCHED!
GIVE NOW: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #RoomAtTheTable
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
DID YOU KNOW? 🧐
92% of our members say being part of an Open Table community increased their sense of belonging.
Your donation this week helps us keep those doors open.
And remember - whatever you give is MATCHED!
GIVE NOW: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #RoomAtTheTable
92% of our members say being part of an Open Table community increased their sense of belonging.
Your donation this week helps us keep those doors open.
And remember - whatever you give is MATCHED!
GIVE NOW: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #RoomAtTheTable
#RoomAtTheTable Day 4:
'My faith and my identity couldn’t coexist, until God’s quiet, steady call showed me that all of who I am is lovingly embraced. Now, worship has become a place of warmth, where God’s love wraps around us exactly as we are. .' - Rich, Cardiff
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
'My faith and my identity couldn’t coexist, until God’s quiet, steady call showed me that all of who I am is lovingly embraced. Now, worship has become a place of warmth, where God’s love wraps around us exactly as we are. .' - Rich, Cardiff
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
#RoomAtTheTable Day 4:
'My faith and my identity couldn’t coexist, until God’s quiet, steady call showed me that all of who I am is lovingly embraced. Now, worship has become a place of warmth, where God’s love wraps around us exactly as we are. .' - Rich, Cardiff
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
'My faith and my identity couldn’t coexist, until God’s quiet, steady call showed me that all of who I am is lovingly embraced. Now, worship has become a place of warmth, where God’s love wraps around us exactly as we are. .' - Rich, Cardiff
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
NEW: Holy Dialogues - #Advent devotions written by #LGBT+ #Christians and their friends!
FREE PDF download here: holydialogues.org/ashes-alive
FREE PDF download here: holydialogues.org/ashes-alive
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
NEW: Holy Dialogues - #Advent devotions written by #LGBT+ #Christians and their friends!
FREE PDF download here: holydialogues.org/ashes-alive
FREE PDF download here: holydialogues.org/ashes-alive
IT'S #ADVENT - Each week has a theme - the first week is #Hope
'I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.'
- Harvey Milk, openly gay US politician killed in office 27th November 1978
We’d love to know what gives you hope? #RoomAtTheTable #ChristmasChallenge
'I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.'
- Harvey Milk, openly gay US politician killed in office 27th November 1978
We’d love to know what gives you hope? #RoomAtTheTable #ChristmasChallenge
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
IT'S #ADVENT - Each week has a theme - the first week is #Hope
'I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.'
- Harvey Milk, openly gay US politician killed in office 27th November 1978
We’d love to know what gives you hope? #RoomAtTheTable #ChristmasChallenge
'I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.'
- Harvey Milk, openly gay US politician killed in office 27th November 1978
We’d love to know what gives you hope? #RoomAtTheTable #ChristmasChallenge
👀 LOOK! #BigGive #ChristmasChallege Day 1 - We've passed 1⁄4 of our target!
You've donated £1,364 so far, doubled to £2,728 thanks to pledges and match funding. 🥳 🎉 Until 9th December ONLY, double the difference with one donation.
GIVE NOW: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
You've donated £1,364 so far, doubled to £2,728 thanks to pledges and match funding. 🥳 🎉 Until 9th December ONLY, double the difference with one donation.
GIVE NOW: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
👀 LOOK! #BigGive #ChristmasChallege Day 1 - We've passed 1⁄4 of our target!
You've donated £1,364 so far, doubled to £2,728 thanks to pledges and match funding. 🥳 🎉 Until 9th December ONLY, double the difference with one donation.
GIVE NOW: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
You've donated £1,364 so far, doubled to £2,728 thanks to pledges and match funding. 🥳 🎉 Until 9th December ONLY, double the difference with one donation.
GIVE NOW: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
WHY DO WE need the Open Table Network?
Because rejection from faith spaces fuels isolation.
But belonging? Belonging heals.
We're raising £10k this week to support our communities and create safer spaces across the UK. DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT TODAY: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#RoomAtTheTable #ChristmasChallenge
Because rejection from faith spaces fuels isolation.
But belonging? Belonging heals.
We're raising £10k this week to support our communities and create safer spaces across the UK. DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT TODAY: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#RoomAtTheTable #ChristmasChallenge
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
WHY DO WE need the Open Table Network?
Because rejection from faith spaces fuels isolation.
But belonging? Belonging heals.
We're raising £10k this week to support our communities and create safer spaces across the UK. DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT TODAY: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#RoomAtTheTable #ChristmasChallenge
Because rejection from faith spaces fuels isolation.
But belonging? Belonging heals.
We're raising £10k this week to support our communities and create safer spaces across the UK. DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT TODAY: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#RoomAtTheTable #ChristmasChallenge
#RoomAtTheTable Day 3:
'Being part of Open Table has inspired me to be a messenger of hope.'
David from Nigeria needed to hear the words 'Come as you are'. At Open Table, he finally did. He found a new home in the UK and in the church: bit.ly/LovedAcceptedWelcomed
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
'Being part of Open Table has inspired me to be a messenger of hope.'
David from Nigeria needed to hear the words 'Come as you are'. At Open Table, he finally did. He found a new home in the UK and in the church: bit.ly/LovedAcceptedWelcomed
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
#RoomAtTheTable Day 3:
'Being part of Open Table has inspired me to be a messenger of hope.'
David from Nigeria needed to hear the words 'Come as you are'. At Open Table, he finally did. He found a new home in the UK and in the church: bit.ly/LovedAcceptedWelcomed
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
'Being part of Open Table has inspired me to be a messenger of hope.'
David from Nigeria needed to hear the words 'Come as you are'. At Open Table, he finally did. He found a new home in the UK and in the church: bit.ly/LovedAcceptedWelcomed
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
'I SLOWLY found my way back to a place of belonging within a church, where I could be all of me.' - On #WorldAIDSday Revd Cate Jacobs, the first HIV-positive woman ordained in the Church of England, shared how Open Table helped her through stigma to radical love bit.ly/NotMyGod #RoomAtTheTable
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
'I SLOWLY found my way back to a place of belonging within a church, where I could be all of me.' - On #WorldAIDSday Revd Cate Jacobs, the first HIV-positive woman ordained in the Church of England, shared how Open Table helped her through stigma to radical love bit.ly/NotMyGod #RoomAtTheTable
#HOPE is the theme of the first week of #Advent.
‘This is genuine, this is hopeful, if only every church could be like this.’
READ MORE about our Open Table communities' impact on our members' well-being: opentable.lgbt/our-impact #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #RoomAtTheTable
‘This is genuine, this is hopeful, if only every church could be like this.’
READ MORE about our Open Table communities' impact on our members' well-being: opentable.lgbt/our-impact #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #RoomAtTheTable
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#HOPE is the theme of the first week of #Advent.
‘This is genuine, this is hopeful, if only every church could be like this.’
READ MORE about our Open Table communities' impact on our members' well-being: opentable.lgbt/our-impact #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #RoomAtTheTable
‘This is genuine, this is hopeful, if only every church could be like this.’
READ MORE about our Open Table communities' impact on our members' well-being: opentable.lgbt/our-impact #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #RoomAtTheTable
🚀 It’s GO TIME! Our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge campaign is OPEN! 🎉
From now until 12 noon 9th December your donation is DOUBLED! 💷 💷
Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for everyone. DONATE HERE: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
From now until 12 noon 9th December your donation is DOUBLED! 💷 💷
Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for everyone. DONATE HERE: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🚀 It’s GO TIME! Our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge campaign is OPEN! 🎉
From now until 12 noon 9th December your donation is DOUBLED! 💷 💷
Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for everyone. DONATE HERE: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
From now until 12 noon 9th December your donation is DOUBLED! 💷 💷
Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for everyone. DONATE HERE: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
TODAY'S THE DAY! From midday 2nd to midday 9th December every £ you donate through our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge campaign page will be DOUBLED!
Your gift will go twice as far - DONATE HERE from 12noon: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
Your gift will go twice as far - DONATE HERE from 12noon: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
TODAY'S THE DAY! From midday 2nd to midday 9th December every £ you donate through our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge campaign page will be DOUBLED!
Your gift will go twice as far - DONATE HERE from 12noon: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
Your gift will go twice as far - DONATE HERE from 12noon: bit.ly/BigGiveOTN25
#RoomAtTheTable Day 2:
'We have been active members of the CoE for 30 years. Open Table is the first place we have felt 100% valued for who we truly are: 2 ordinary married Christian people who love life and wish to play our part in contributing to a better world' - Lucy & Sarah, Open Table Bristol
'We have been active members of the CoE for 30 years. Open Table is the first place we have felt 100% valued for who we truly are: 2 ordinary married Christian people who love life and wish to play our part in contributing to a better world' - Lucy & Sarah, Open Table Bristol
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
#RoomAtTheTable Day 2:
'We have been active members of the CoE for 30 years. Open Table is the first place we have felt 100% valued for who we truly are: 2 ordinary married Christian people who love life and wish to play our part in contributing to a better world' - Lucy & Sarah, Open Table Bristol
'We have been active members of the CoE for 30 years. Open Table is the first place we have felt 100% valued for who we truly are: 2 ordinary married Christian people who love life and wish to play our part in contributing to a better world' - Lucy & Sarah, Open Table Bristol
TOMORROW midday our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge begins - Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for even more #LGBTQIA+ folk this #Christmas. Donate between 2-9 Dec and double your impact. READ MORE: bit.ly/BigGive1225
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
TOMORROW midday our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge begins - Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for even more #LGBTQIA+ folk this #Christmas. Donate between 2-9 Dec and double your impact. READ MORE: bit.ly/BigGive1225
'AS FOR ME, I will always have hope.' - Psalm 71:14
We’d love to know in the comments, what gives you hope?
We bring #hope to isolated #LGBTQIA+ people by making #RoomAtTheTable.
READ MORE about our #Advent #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge campaign starting noon tomorrow: bit.ly/BigGive1225
We’d love to know in the comments, what gives you hope?
We bring #hope to isolated #LGBTQIA+ people by making #RoomAtTheTable.
READ MORE about our #Advent #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge campaign starting noon tomorrow: bit.ly/BigGive1225
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
'AS FOR ME, I will always have hope.' - Psalm 71:14
We’d love to know in the comments, what gives you hope?
We bring #hope to isolated #LGBTQIA+ people by making #RoomAtTheTable.
READ MORE about our #Advent #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge campaign starting noon tomorrow: bit.ly/BigGive1225
We’d love to know in the comments, what gives you hope?
We bring #hope to isolated #LGBTQIA+ people by making #RoomAtTheTable.
READ MORE about our #Advent #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge campaign starting noon tomorrow: bit.ly/BigGive1225
🕯️ In the #Christmas story there was no room at the inn. For many LGBTQIA+ Christians exclusion is still a reality. Tomorrow we launch our biggest campaign of the year to change that. Please hold onto your donations til midday tomorrow! Every £1 you give will be DOUBLED. #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🕯️ In the #Christmas story there was no room at the inn. For many LGBTQIA+ Christians exclusion is still a reality. Tomorrow we launch our biggest campaign of the year to change that. Please hold onto your donations til midday tomorrow! Every £1 you give will be DOUBLED. #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
TODAY is #WorldAIDSday. This blessing for acts of remembrance for people affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic over 40+ years echoes the themes of #Advent: #Hope, #Peace, #Joy & #Love. WATCH: youtu.be/bF59IIH5GkM [1.5mins]
Recorded for a 2021 online vigil. WATCH: youtu.be/Nz71HBqcM74 [14 mins]
Recorded for a 2021 online vigil. WATCH: youtu.be/Nz71HBqcM74 [14 mins]
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
TODAY is #WorldAIDSday. This blessing for acts of remembrance for people affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic over 40+ years echoes the themes of #Advent: #Hope, #Peace, #Joy & #Love. WATCH: youtu.be/bF59IIH5GkM [1.5mins]
Recorded for a 2021 online vigil. WATCH: youtu.be/Nz71HBqcM74 [14 mins]
Recorded for a 2021 online vigil. WATCH: youtu.be/Nz71HBqcM74 [14 mins]
🌟 THIS ADVENT we’re sharing 24 stories of courage, faith & unexpected welcome.
Day 1: A powerful reminder that love makes a way - anyway.
Read/listen to Jo's story: bit.ly/otnCalledAnyway
#RoomAtTheTable #Advent #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
Day 1: A powerful reminder that love makes a way - anyway.
Read/listen to Jo's story: bit.ly/otnCalledAnyway
#RoomAtTheTable #Advent #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🌟 THIS ADVENT we’re sharing 24 stories of courage, faith & unexpected welcome.
Day 1: A powerful reminder that love makes a way - anyway.
Read/listen to Jo's story: bit.ly/otnCalledAnyway
#RoomAtTheTable #Advent #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
Day 1: A powerful reminder that love makes a way - anyway.
Read/listen to Jo's story: bit.ly/otnCalledAnyway
#RoomAtTheTable #Advent #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge
TWO DAYS TO GO til our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge - Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for even more #LGBTQIA+ folk this #Christmas. Donate between 2-9 Dec and double your impact. READ MORE: bit.ly/BigGive1225
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
TWO DAYS TO GO til our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge - Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for even more #LGBTQIA+ folk this #Christmas. Donate between 2-9 Dec and double your impact. READ MORE: bit.ly/BigGive1225
WEEK 1 of #Advent takes the theme of #Hope.
This intro to the Advent wreath & prayer for hope is from our 2020 online carol service: youtu.be/7X3tMnoYOpM [46mins]
Litany: Revd Anna Blaedel, enfleshed.com [adapted]
#BSL & captions: Tom Pearson: pearsonbsl.com
This intro to the Advent wreath & prayer for hope is from our 2020 online carol service: youtu.be/7X3tMnoYOpM [46mins]
Litany: Revd Anna Blaedel, enfleshed.com [adapted]
#BSL & captions: Tom Pearson: pearsonbsl.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
WEEK 1 of #Advent takes the theme of #Hope.
This intro to the Advent wreath & prayer for hope is from our 2020 online carol service: youtu.be/7X3tMnoYOpM [46mins]
Litany: Revd Anna Blaedel, enfleshed.com [adapted]
#BSL & captions: Tom Pearson: pearsonbsl.com
This intro to the Advent wreath & prayer for hope is from our 2020 online carol service: youtu.be/7X3tMnoYOpM [46mins]
Litany: Revd Anna Blaedel, enfleshed.com [adapted]
#BSL & captions: Tom Pearson: pearsonbsl.com
TWO DAYS TO GO til our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge - Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for even more #LGBTQIA+ folk this #Christmas. Donate between 2-9 Dec and double your impact. READ MORE: bit.ly/BigGive1225
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
TWO DAYS TO GO til our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge - Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for even more #LGBTQIA+ folk this #Christmas. Donate between 2-9 Dec and double your impact. READ MORE: bit.ly/BigGive1225
NO Open Table communities meeting today.
#PleasePray for all our communities across England and Wales, especially the FOUR new communities which launched this year: opentable.lgbt/our-communities
#PleasePray for all our communities across England and Wales, especially the FOUR new communities which launched this year: opentable.lgbt/our-communities
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
NO Open Table communities meeting today.
#PleasePray for all our communities across England and Wales, especially the FOUR new communities which launched this year: opentable.lgbt/our-communities
#PleasePray for all our communities across England and Wales, especially the FOUR new communities which launched this year: opentable.lgbt/our-communities
THREE DAYS TO GO til our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge - Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for even more #LGBTQIA+ folk this #Christmas. Donate between 2-9 Dec and double your impact. READ MORE: bit.ly/BigGive1225
November 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
THREE DAYS TO GO til our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge - Help us make #RoomAtTheTable for even more #LGBTQIA+ folk this #Christmas. Donate between 2-9 Dec and double your impact. READ MORE: bit.ly/BigGive1225