Tag Archives: ODC Beginnings

The Open Door Community: A Common Life Vision of Hope

On a Friday night in July, visitors Allen and Yvonne King stood in the hot kitchen taking orders from Sye.  A homeless middle-aged black man, unemployed since one half of his body was severely burned by french-fries grease in a short order restaurant, Sye kept the Kings busy until midnight cooking a birthday cake for [...]

The Butler Street Breakfast: Breaking Bread Together

Hospitality vol. 2, no. 3 What’s Happening? 5:45 am. Barbara, Dawn, Mary, Andy, John, or Carolyn–one of them on successive mornings Monday to Friday slips out of bed and stumbles toward the dark kitchen. Now is the time to cook the Butler Street breakfast The night before big bowls of grits have been measured, 150 [...]

WASHING

Hospitality, Vol. 1, No. 3   Washing and the Kingdom of God are closely related; so are washing and the Open Door. One must wade into the mighty waters of the Jordan River (or be dunked in tepid waters behind the pulpit or sprinkled while still in ruffled skln) and here have your sins washed [...]

SOUP’S ON!

  Hospitality vol. 1, no. 2 Clarence Jordon has translated Hebrews 11:1 as “Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds; it is betting your life on the unseen realities.” Rob and Carolyn, Murphy and I were given a dream several years ago. We dreamed and prayed and waited and hoped that we could [...]

Opening Our Doors

Hospitality vol. 1, no. 1 Surely it was not a time of desert wandering nor sitting in the dark belly of a beast, but the period between our leaving Clifton Church and opening the doors here at 910 has been long, dry and sometimes heavy. So how joyful we are! to be here and to [...]