The Church by the Bridge - 100 Years of Good News
Today was the start-up of our Soup Café 2025, appropriately just as the cold weather has really started to settle in.
The Soup Café will be open every Wednesday from 12:00 - 2:00pm from now until the end of March.
It is a warm, welcoming place to come to for hot drinks, home-made soup & bread, or just company. All ages are welcome too.
It is the third year that we are running this as a church in the Hall, and over the months and years it has always allowed us to make new friends and deepen existing friendships.
There just is something about sitting together for a meal. When we explore Jesus’ ministry in the Gospel books of the bible, we discover that these joint meals were the places where much of his reaching out, but also his teaching happened. The foot washing, the eating with the outcast tax collector, having dinner with one of the leading religious authorities, providing a meal of bread of fish for the 4,000 and the 5,000 close to the lake of Galilee are all examples of Jesus sharing a meal with others.
Last but not least we have of course the Last Supper. The Last Supper is the meal that we still partake in together on a regular basis as remembrance that Jesus walked on this earth in person, and as a physical reminder of his ultimate sacrifice – himself on the cross.
Back in Kimble on Wednesdays during Winter, it is a joy to sit around the table and share simple but wholesome food with one another. But even more of a joy is knowing that this invitation to the Soup Café is open to anyone, whether we already know you or not.
On the aforementioned example of Jesus feeding 4,000 families, we read in the Gospel of Matthew 15:33 how Jesus had compassion of the hungry people he had in front of him at that point in time, so he ‘called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.”’ and then went on to feed the families present with seven loaves of bread and one small fish!
You too are warmly invited to enjoy unconditionally the company of others and a bowl of hot soup on a Wednesday lunchtime.
If you know of anyone who might be interested, please spread the word as we want to extend the hospitality that we ourselves have received from Jesus himself.
Very much looking forward to seeing old friends and new on Wednesdays at Soup Café!
Have a blessed week
Kai