Dinner Church Summit 2025

A thorough understanding of First Century gospel gatherings makes it known that God shows up whenever his people (present and future) gather at a table for His purposes. Or as Conrad Gempf states, “Jesus still visits earth at suppertime.” This is the headwaters of the Dinner Church movement.

This movemental conference is not designed to download information, ideas, and best practices. Rather, it is designed to bring Dinner Church leaders together to celebrate the timely recovery of this ancient church-form and strengthen one another as we engage in it. We will be eating our way through these hours, and while around tables we will hear miraculous testimonies, comical failures, and practical strategies from each other. Do not come merely to listen; come also to others. The Dinner Church vision and movement is asking this from us all.

Beyond that, we will be laying anointed hands upon called and sent leaders - praying in the NT manner, such that all of us leaves for home with a new anointing and a new touch from the Lord to raise up JesusTables boldly, and preach the JesusStories with greater confidence than we’ve ever known.

Thursday, November 6, 2025

• 3pm - Registration Opens
• 4pm - Afternoon Gathering
• 6pm - Dinner Church Experience

Friday, November 7, 2025

• 9am - Morning Gathering
• 12:30pm - Lunch
• 2pm - Afternoon Gathering
• 3pm - Connection, Conversation, Coffee and Cookies
• 4pm - Interviews
• 5pm - Dinner Church Experience

Saturday, November 8, 2025

• 9am - Morning Gathering
• 10am - Prayer and Power for Mission

** note about tickets: A full refund can be received up to 30 days before the event & a partial refund can be received up to 7 days before the event. There will be no refunds given the week leading up to the event. **

Mike Graves is Scholar in Residence at Country Club Christian Church in Kansas City, Missouri. Before retiring from teaching, he was the Wm. K. McElvaney Professor of Preaching and Worship at Saint Paul School of Theology, also in Kansas City. His most recent book is Table Talk: Rethinking Communion and Community. He is currently finishing up a book on what he calls "the seven first words of Jesus,” titled Your One Wild and Precious Life: What Jesus Can Teach Us about Life Before Death. He and his wife, Carol, have three adult children and seven grandchildren.

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