You have a seat
at the table.
Nourishment, hope,
and genuine community
Celeste, TX 
Free Home-Cooked Meals
Conversational Teaching
Community Inspired
Everyone is a candidate for internal and external struggles. It’s easy to find ourselves worrying and filled with anxiety when navigating through life and its responsibilities, between work, our homes, our relationships, providing for our families, even affording basic household goods. Eventually,we find ourselves overwhelmed with stress and start spiraling downward. The pressure to provide often forces us to hide the pain and accept life the way it is–a slow, uphill climb of a mountain where we never seem to reach the top. But at the end of the day, we all want to succeed, to feel secure, valued, loved and to be at peace in our hearts and minds. Oftentimes for families, that’s easier said than done.
Burdens are meant to be shared, family style.
At Bread + Table, we seek to provide a place of nourishment, a foundation of hope, and genuine community through supper table conversations and by offering help and hope through local outreach opportunities. We refuse to be “invitation-only” or exclusionary. We’ve found that the supper table is a place to share with each other our stories of life, limitations, and experiences—a place to find nourishment, but also a place to satisfy a hunger for something more.
At Bread + Table, we’re committed to meeting the needs of our neighbors whether healthy or hurting, broken or mended, wandering through life’s difficulties or gracefully found.
• Help families find hope
• Demonstrate love without limits
• Empower the helpless to find freedom
• Reveal the generosity of God
Our Mission
Bread + Table seeks to provide a place of nourishment, a foundation of hope, and genuine community through supper table conversations and local outreach.
Our Values
How We Prepare The Table
No matter who you are, where you came from, or what you believe, you have a seat at the table. Everyone is welcome here.
We believe that life-change happens in the context of community. We offer a place of encouragement, where you’re free to ask questions.
There is always room for more at the table. We commit to serving one another and showing love to our neighbors. Who will you invite into the conversation?
Our Story
My name is Bear, and along with my wife, Jill, we’ve created Bread + Table.
Bread + Table comes from a conviction to share the love of Christ differently than we’ve ever shared it before. We believe that God is positioning us both physically, emotionally, and spiritually to draw people into His Kingdom.
I’ve spent all of my ministry communicating Jesus from a platform. Most often, speaking to seasoned believers and speaking their spiritual language. I have learned that leading crowds/congregations was much easier for me than leading someone one on one to Christ. Sharing my faith as a trained pastor from a distance was easier than sharing my faith from my experiences of brokenness and personal scars. I recently told Jill, one of the best legacies we can leave our kids is to teach them and show them how to communicate the Gospel without a platform. To offer hope to someone face to face, family to family, one supper at a time.
Recently the Lord reminded me about my life, my past, how I was raised, how Jill was raised, and our DNA. Jill’s dad is a builder, Jill’s mom is a caregiver, my dad is a pastor, and my mom is a missionary. Our DNA and the values we were raised on are a recipe for quiet shepherding, sacrificial reach, passionate care, and the building of hope.
Over the years of ministry, running our own furniture restoration business, and now a thriving event venue, we’ve learned the value of being redeemed, restored, and made new. We have learned there’s value in what’s been thrown away and discarded. We learned that life’s blemishes, cuts, splinters, and rough spots have a value, and offer hope through experience. We built our first dining room table from scraps being thrown away from a construction site. We went on to build table after table from lumber and timber being thrown away only to restore it, place value in it, and connect the table with the buyers’ hearts. Filling a hole they often said was missing in their family and home —the supper table.
We’ve learned everyone hurts, everyone feels pain, everyone sins, everyone qualifies for God’s grace and everyone has an opportunity to sit at the table, not just at our table, but at God’s table.
