EP. 30: Sarah Harmeyer | People Gatherer, Neighbor’s Table

Sarah and I chat about identifying that passion God has placed deep within you and living it out.  For Sarah, it is gathering people around a table to connect over food and helping others to do the same by crafting hand made tables through Neighbor's Table.

2:41 Sarah shares how a pastor friend helped her shift her identify from work back into Christ.

"I learned to not strive so much, but rest in who God made me to be... Come to find out God made me to be a people gatherer."

"I thought back to the very best moments of my life and they were always around the table."

"I think God made me to gather people at the table."

Sarah set a goal to serve 500 people around the table in her backyard and on Thanksgiving the 500th guest walked down the driveway. 

7:00 "The best part of what we now call Neighbor's Tableis my friend called about a year and half in and said, 'Sarah, I see God getting a lot of glory around your table and I wonder if He has something outside your own yard?'....I started thinking there's other people wired just like me.  There's other people gatherer's in the world. What if I could find those people? And what if I could cheer them on?....Neighbor's Table is my full time job now."

Neighbor's Tablebuilds hand-crafted tables and deliver them across the country and cheer people on to love their neighbor's.

"People might say we're in the table business, but I really like to think we're in the people business."

9:25 Sarah shares the who, what, when, where and how she hosted the first gathering in her backyard

Next-door social app

Who: 300 closest neighbors (91 people attended)

What: A potluck So-Hip Soiree 

Where: Sarah's backyard

"I learned that night that people just want to be invited. There's something special about being invited to the table."

"My rule at my house is there's no private party, so if any neighbor sees there's an open seat they can join me. I pass plates of food over the fence. People stop and say hello."

14:45 Sarah shares her faith journey with us and how she discovered God created her to be a people gatherer

"I think people gathering probably looks a little like evangelism with a dinner napkin wrapped around it...I just love people....Now we say Neighbor's Tableis a love mission.  I want to be very missional about the way we love people and not in a project kind of way, but in a real, genuine, as a believer, I have the light of Christ inside of me [kind of way]."

 SHOW NOTES continued

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