Bread of Hope is a space to practise what we learn at the Lord’s Table. So Bread of Hope provides physical food by supporting local food pantries (click here). Bread of Hope also provides spiritual food by helping people to:
We also offer a Stress@Work course, which explores how even so-called negative emotions can be a blessing to others.
Most of our work is done with other organisations. So we go where they are.
But we also host small meetings from 7.00 to 8.30 pm on alternate Mondays (all age) and from 7.45 pm on monthly Saturdays (20s–30s). Please email contact@breadofhope.org.uk if you would like to join us via Zoom. These fortnightly discussions are sometimes interspersed with elements from our @Work courses.
You can also find us on Meetup by clicking here.
We’ll structure our time as follows:
4 November: #1: Gombis: The Drama of Ephesians
2 December: Check-in and prayer
6 January: #2: Gombis: Some Mysterious Actors on the Stage
23 March: Check-in and prayer
27 April: #3: Gombis: Transforming the Imagination
PRESENCE-SHAPED MISSION
Exploring what mission looks like as a faithful presence.
8 April: #16: Schluter: Relationships
22 April: #17: Wells: Being with
6 May: #18: Illich: The Good Samaritan
20 May: #19: Scazzero: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
2022–2023
We discussed Emails from Hotel Babylon, and a bespoke series on Sacraments and Secularity, which included: Charles Taylor; Alexander Schmemann; William Cavanaugh; Gisela Kreglinger; and James K.A. Smith.
2021–2022
Our theme was the Powers, diversity (men and women, ethnicity), and breaking breading together. Thinkers and texts included: Richard Beck; Ched Myers; Walter Wink; 1 Corinthians 11; Esau McCaulley; and Nathan Cartagena.
2020–2021
A Walter Brueggemann bonanza of three courses/series: Embracing the Prophets; Breaking Ground’s Conversations with Walter Brueggemann; and Materiality as Resistance.
2020
Hosted the Godspeed course.
Click here to find out more; and please email contact@breadofhope.org.uk if you would like to join us via Zoom.
We believe that breaking bread together gives us a picture of the Christian life. The bread and the wine:
These three things further reflect the three offices of Christ: prophet, priest, and king. The booklet below elaborates.
Since breaking bread together gives us a model of whole-life discipleship, our mission is to embody what breaking bread is all about, which we do by providing physical and spiritual food. And our vision is the feast to come, to which breaking bread together directs us.
Each of these offices – the prophetic, the priestly, and the royal – has at least one corresponding workplace course. These courses can be tabulated as follows:
| Course | Office | Value | Benefit – objective | Benefit – subjective* |
| Worship@Work | Royal | Faith | Equality** | Flourishing*** |
| Forgiveness@Work | Priestly | Love | Worth | Affection |
| Stress@Work | ” | ” | ” | ” |
| Witness@Work | Prophetic | Hope | Truth | Reflection |
* OECD (2013), OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being, OECD Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264191655-en, 10, 29—32.
** “Equality” is shorthand for saying that “generosity mitigates inequality”. Whereas Bread of Hope focuses on generosity, others focus on equality; for example: Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone (London: Penguin, 2009).
*** Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Wellbeing (London: Penguin, 2018).
Bread of Hope subscribes to the historic creeds of the Christian Faith, such as: the Apostles’ Creed; the Nicene Creed; and the Athanasian Creed.
Bread of Hope also believes in:
* Evangelical Alliance Basis of faith.
Bread of Hope was founded by five guys in 2015:
