Open Table Sefton Community

08/02/2024

Just a reminder that we are meeting this coming Sunday.

All are welcome!

09/12/2023

We are meeting tomorrow for our Christmas Service! All Saonts with St Frides, L23 9TQ. 6 for refreshments, 6.30 for the service. See you there!

12/11/2023

We had a wonderful time this evening celebrating Bob and Robert's 50th anniversary as well as Alan's 80th Birthday! We shared tonnes of tasty food and thought about the love we have in God and each other.

12/11/2023

We had a wonderful time this evening celebrating Bob and Robert's 50th anniversary as well as Alan's 80th Birthday! We shared tonnes of tasty food and thought about the love we have in God and each other.

07/09/2022

Jen Williams will be stepping down from the leadership of Open Table Sefton in September, having served as leader of Open Table Sefton for over 5 years.

We will be having a service of celebration and saying farewell to Jen with drinks and cake this Sunday 11th September, 6-8pm, at All Saints with St Frideswyde's Church, Crosby. Everyone is more than welcome to come along, and to come just as you are!

Jen says: "Open Table Sefton provides a space where the Church feels its most loving, kind, and authentic. It has been wonderful to be witness to an inclusive Christian movement developing in Sefton, and a privilege to have played a part in creating a warm, friendly, safe church space for the LGBTQIA+ community.

I have felt called to move on for a little while, and excited for the journey ahead. I am also excited for the future of Open Table Sefton too - I am confident and reassured that Open Table will be well supported in my absence. I am delighted by the appointment of Rev. Poppy Thorpe as your next vicar at All Saints with St Frideswyde's, and very grateful for the incredible support of Rev. Alan Brooks who is taking over and chairing the leadership.

Please be praying for me as I await what God is calling me to next, and do stay in touch - I look forward to seeing those of you that can make it to All Saints with St Frideswyde's this Sunday evening.

Thanks to all of you, and all the very best for the future! God bless you!"

21/08/2022

Wonderful news! Welcome Poppy, next vicar of All Saints with St Frideswyde’s Church ☺️

Exciting News!

Reverend Poppy Thorpe will be joining us as our new vicar this autumn. Poppy is currently vicar of The Church of the Good Shepherd, West Derby but has previously served as curate at Holy Trinity, Formby and St Michael and All Angels, Altcar. Before ordination, she organised mission trips to Burundi and Rwanda and ran a youth camp for Palestinian Christians in Nazareth.

Poppy is married to Nathan, the vicar of St Giles, Aintree and has a daughter Sophia. There will be more information about when she can join us in the next few weeks. We look forward to welcoming her to ASSF.

Poppy says: “Hello All Saints with Saint Frideswydes! I am delighted to have been appointed as your next vicar. I am looking forward to getting to know you all and serving the people of Thornton and Crosby together. Please know that I am praying for you all as this new chapter begins. God bless you.”

28/07/2022

Join us this Pride weekend in Liverpool!

Open Table Sefton will be meeting together at Homebaked cafe in St George’s Hall from 10am for anyone who wants to join us before the march for tea, coffee or light refreshments.

For more details our latest newsletter is here: https://mailchi.mp/62d8d0e417b1/open-table-sefton-april-join-us-for-palm-sunday-9270973