Meet our Patrons - Rachel Mann intro
Channel: Open Table Network
Date: 2020-11-06

Watch the recording of our Q&A with Rachel Mann, in conversation with OTN Co-Chair Alex Clare-Young here [60 minutes]: https://youtu.be/hdjGb2y9ia0

Here is Rachel's message for the Open Table Network:

Hello, Rachel Mann here, sending warmest greetings and personal blessings to all at the Open Table Network. And I just want to express my excitement about all that the future involves for the Network as we travel onwards together. When I was invited to consider becoming a Patron of the Open Table Network, I have to say my jaw dropped! I was stunned. Not least because the  Open Table Network have become very precious to me over the past five years. Everything that the Open Table seeks to model in terms of not just welcome and inclusion, but celebration of LGBTQIA people is extraordinary - wondrous - and actually ever more needed in a hungry and often broken world.

It seems to me that at a time when there is so much hatred, so much violence, increasing anxiety and fear, we need the Open Table Network more than we ever have, because the Open Table Network models God's abiding, inclusive and wondrous love.

So be assured in the coming days, weeks, months, and years, of my prayers, of my commitment, of my passion for the Open Table Network. And most of all, let us be assured of the love of God, the love which calls us out of ourselves into ever richer community. The love, which we know calls forth God's rainbow people into the fullness of the body of Christ. What an exciting time to be involved in God's work, and the Open Table Network, for me, is an absolute icon of that work. 

So may we all know God's wondrous love flowing in and through all that we seek to do together. May we know that we too are children of God's delight, and that through the Open Table Network God's love is known felt and heard.