🍽️ HC 2025 Community Thanksgiving — Come to the Table of Grace

Nov 28, 2025

🍽️ HC 2025 Community Thanksgiving — Come to the Table of Grace

Community Thanksgiving Event · Third Annual

Warm Thanksgiving table with candles, pumpkins, and autumn colors, labeled 'A Table of Grace' for Holy Covenant’s 2025 Community Thanksgiving event.

At Holy Covenant, Thanksgiving is more than just turkey — it’s about belonging, connection, and radical welcome. 🌈🧡 What began two years ago as a way to make sure no one spent the holiday alone is quickly blossoming into a beloved traditions of our church family. Whether you’re a longtime member, a newcomer, a neighbor, or just looking for a place to be — you belong here.

This year, we opened our hearts and tables once again, including to several families from Charlotte Family Housing, a Charlotte-based organization that provides temporary housing for families of all shapes and sizes as they transition to a long-term, stable home. Their presence reminded us of the transformative power of community and our shared commitment to hope and healing — a living picture of what it means to gather at a true Table of Grace.

“This dinner began as a way to make sure no one spent Thanksgiving alone… and it’s become an important time for many. For me, being so far from our family back in St. Louis, it’s been deeply meaningful to share this holiday with others who’ve become like family.

I’ll say it every time if I have to — All are welcome.”

– Pastor Chris

Our 2025 Community Thanksgiving video, “Thanksgiving Words of Grace”, weaves together what this gathering is truly about: a softer rhythm, a shared table, and a story told in gentle frames. It invites us to slow down long enough to notice the quiet ways God carries us — in a warm light in the window, in the comfort of a familiar chair, in a simple table set with love, and in the relief of whispering, “I made it this far.” Rest, gratitude, and grace met us here.

Come to the Table of Grace

Belonging & Welcome: What started as a way to ensure no one spent Thanksgiving alone has grown into a space where friends, families, and neighbors become one community.
Partners in Hope: Welcoming families from Charlotte Family Housing reminded us that “home” is built not only with walls, but with care, dignity, and shared meals.
A Table of Grace: From beautifully set tables and thoughtful décor to children laughing and stories shared, every detail pointed to God’s abundant, unearned grace.
Words of Grace: The video’s quiet story — stillness, memory, awareness, gratitude, peace, and love — .

With Gratitude for Every Hand and Heart

This gathering comes to life because of the many who pour love, labor, and grace into it.

We offer heartfelt thanks to:

Pastor Chris — whose vision created this event and nurtured it into its third beautiful year.
Eric Miner — for leading, coordinating, shaping the story, and helping it all come together.
Dawn Simmons — whose “good at everything” talents wove through planning, logistics, and day-of magic.
Judah Jones — for her eloquent, artful table-scaping that transformed our space into a true feast of grace.
Suzanne Lamorey — for coordinating with Charlotte Family Housing and ensuring families felt welcomed and at home.
Kevin Edwards-Knight, Akeera Czarnecki, Kristen Fuchs, Amanda & Kyle Deck and family, and Ed Vickery — for faithful set-up and clean-up leadership that carried the heart of hospitality.
All who prepared and brought food — sharing dishes, recipes, and love from your homes to our table.
Those who donated gifts for our Charlotte Family Housing families — extending grace beyond our walls.
Every volunteer, visible and unseen — whose kindness, presence, and care made this gathering a true Table of Grace.

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