OUR HOPE is TO INSPIRE the world with A DESIRE TO SEE JESUS’ PRAYER FOR UNITY BECOME A VISIBLE REALITY. AS HUMANS WE SHARE A NUMBER OF COMMON DENOMINATORS: Among them THE EARTH as OUR shared HOME, THE NEED FOR FOOD AND SHELTER AND THE INEVITABLE REALITY OF DEATH. THE TABLE REPRESENTS OUR mutual NEED FOR SUSTAINING OUR NATURAL LIFE. COMING TOGETHER AROUND THE TABLE AFFORDs US THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT ASIDE THE MANY THINGS THAT SEPARATE US and ENCOUNTER EACH OTHER AS EQUALS. INVITING PEOPLE to SHARE A MEAL and listening to each other’s life journey provides an OPPORTUNITY FOR FRIENDSHIPS TO FORM. AS WE PARTAKE OF WHAT SUSTAINS OUR NATURAL LIFE, WE CAN SPEAK OF WHAT SUSTAINS OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE. WE ARE RELATIONAL BEINGS CREATED BY A RELATIONAL GOD. THOUGH WE ARE DIFFERENT IN GENDER, RACE, CULTURE, GENERATION, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS views, OUR DEEPEST JOYS AND SORROWS COME FROM OUR RELATIONSHIPS. THis IS spiritually COMMON to all of us JUST AS FOOD AND WATER IS OUR NATURAL common DENOMINATOR.