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The Open Table is a community of neighbors learning to feed, plant, and forgive together — one Sunday and a thousand small Saturdays at a time.
Whatever you’re carrying into your first Sunday, you’re welcome. Here’s where to park, what to expect, and who to look for when you walk in.
Plan your visitWe started in 2019 with a borrowed garage, four families, and the conviction that the gospel sounds louder when it’s being lived. Today the work is gathered worship, daily mercy, and trees in the ground — the work that stays after the photographers leave.
Each program is led by a trained neighbor, runs every week we’re open, and reports its numbers quarterly. Pick the work that fits the week you actually have.
Sunday lunch in the back lot. 1,200 plates a week, half grown on church-property raised beds.
Wednesday-night groups for addiction, grief, and post-incarceration. Six weekly. No cost. No registration.
Free English classes Tuesday + Thursday, K–12 tutoring after school every weekday at 4 PM.
Saturday-morning native planting along the Queen Creek wash. 1,240 trees in by year three.
Re-entry mentorship for men coming home from Maricopa. Monthly cohorts; first 24 months sponsored.
Apartment setup, school enrollment, and first-90-day grocery support for newly arrived families.
600 native saplings into the Queen Creek wash with the parks team. Breakfast at 7 AM, shovels in the ground at 8.
One service at 10:00 AM, communion in the round, the kids back in the room. Stay for the meal afterward.
Monthly gathering of folks who finished a cohort. Invite-only. If you’ve been through, you know.
Twelve weeks, Tuesday + Thursday evenings. Free, with childcare. Registration closes Friday.
Marcus grew up two blocks from where the church now meets. He spent eight years as a high-school counselor before planting The Open Table in 2019, and he still keeps Tuesday afternoons open for the kids he used to counsel — now mostly grown, mostly thriving, occasionally not.
He preaches every Sunday, runs the Wednesday recovery circle, and is on the planting line every Saturday morning. He and his wife Linh have three kids; the oldest leads the children’s ministry on Sundays.
Read his full story →Sunday teaching, Wednesday recovery, Saturday planting line.
Runs the kitchen and the refugee-family welcome program.
Trees, beds, soil. Twelve years with the Pascua Yaqui restoration team.
Eight years sober, six years leading the Wednesday cohorts.
Pulls the songbook from the room, not from a list.
Ten years public-school teaching. Runs the 0–11 program every Sunday.
Coordinates the re-entry mentor program with Maricopa County.
Built the K–12 tutoring program from a single Saturday.
In the spring of 2019, Marcus and Linh moved back into the neighborhood Marcus had grown up in. The block had changed and stayed the same in the ways those things tend to go — the school still there, the corner store under new ownership, the wash overgrown, the houses split half-rented half-owned. Four families met in their garage on Easter Sunday.
The first year was the kind of work that no one writes a memoir about. Folding chairs. A speaker borrowed from the high school. A Sunday meal that began the second week and never ended. By the time the pandemic arrived a year later, twelve families showed up. By the time the lockdown lifted, sixty.
“The gospel sounds louder when it’s being lived.”
The work expanded sideways. The meal grew into a Sunday community lunch. The lunch grew into a weekday food pantry when a member donated her produce truck. The pantry brought a recovery program. The recovery program brought a need for childcare. The childcare brought tutoring. Each ministry started because someone in the room asked for it, not because the staff planned it.
Year three brought the trees. The Queen Creek wash had been a bare strip of gravel for as long as anyone in the room could remember. Daniel — a member who had spent twelve years on the Pascua Yaqui restoration team — pitched a planting day after a Wednesday recovery circle. Three Saturdays in, fifty volunteers. By the end of year four, a thousand native saplings in the ground.
Today, six years on, the work looks like a Sunday gathering, a daily kitchen, a weekly recovery group, a weekday tutoring room, and a Saturday planting line. None of it has a marketing budget. All of it has a Tuesday meeting where the staff prays through the previous week and writes down what didn’t work.
Not a doctrinal statement — we have one of those, and you can read it at the bottom of this page. These are the convictions that shape how the Sunday becomes a Saturday.
We are people in need of rescue, not refinement. Every Sunday is an announcement before it is an invitation.
If our beliefs don’t produce a kitchen, a recovery room, and a planting line, our beliefs are decoration. Doctrine is meant to be inhabited.
We are not building a regional megachurch. We are restoring four corners. If our work doesn’t serve the people who walk past, we have lost the plot.
The wash, the soil, the natives, the canopy — these are members of the congregation. To love a place is to plant in it.
Six years of Tuesday meetings. Twelve years of Sunday lunches. The unsexy week is where the gospel becomes credible.
No experience needed. Coffee and breakfast burritos at 7. We start planting at 8 and we’re home by noon. Bring kids; bring boots; bring a friend.
Pick the path that works. We re-publish allocations every quarter, and we get the math wrong sometimes — when we do, we re-publish.
Stripe-backed. Bank, card, or Apple Pay. Set monthly to make budgeting predictable on both sides.
02 · MailCash & check welcome. Mail to: The Open Table, 2480 E. Ellsworth Loop Rd., Queen Creek, AZ 85142.
03 · PlannedBequests, donor-advised funds, charitable remainder trusts. We’ll connect you with our finance team in 24 hours.
04 · In personCash and check accepted at the door any service, or at the Saturday planting check-in tent.
42%
Programs
Meal, recovery, ESL, tutoring, planting, refugee hospitality.
28%
Staff
Six full-time, two part-time. Salaries published annually.
18%
Facility
Rent, utilities, kitchen supplies, planting tools.
12%
Reserves
Six-month emergency fund & capital for the next program.
If you’ve read this far and you’re still uncertain about a Sunday, a Saturday, or a Tuesday recovery group — call us. A real human answers between 9 AM and 7 PM.
Half grown on church-property raised beds, the rest sourced from the Mesa Co-op and seven East-Valley farms that donate weekly.
Sunday community lunch + Wednesday-evening pantry distribution at three pickup points.
Through our refugee hospitality network & emergency-housing partners.
Across four East-Valley re-greening sites along the Queen Creek wash.
Weekly groups across addiction, grief, and post-incarceration support.
If you’ve read this far, you’re probably ready to do something. These four steps are how a first Sunday becomes a sustained life of service. Take them in order, or skip ahead — we’ll meet you where you are.
10:00 AM. Walk in any door. Coffee’s in the lobby, kids hand off after the call to worship. No registration form, no follow-up email unless you ask for one.
Plan your first Sunday →11:30 AM in the back lot. Always free, always enough. Sit at any table, eat with anyone. The fastest way from "first-time visitor" to "person who knows three people’s names."
See this Sunday’s menu →Trees, food, recovery, hospitality, kids. Pick the work that fits the week you actually have. Most volunteers start with two hours on a Saturday and stay for years.
Browse the work →Six-week class, twice a year. We cover the convictions, the history, the doctrine, and the rhythms. After that, you’re part of the people who carry this place when the wind blows.
Sign up for the next class →
Year-three planting day
Mile-marker 3, Queen Creek wash · April 2026 · photo by R. Kobayashi
Sunday Meal · Week 312
Back-lot kitchen, The Open Table · produce grown on church-property raised beds
Every Sunday after the 11 AM service, the sanctuary becomes a dining room. Tables go down the center aisle. Volunteers from this morning’s congregation plate the meal. Neighbors from the apartments across Ellsworth eat alongside members.
It’s the same table for everyone — that’s the point. No line, no badges, no “guest” or “volunteer” signs. Just a meal we cook for whoever walks in.
The wash behind our parking lot was bare caliche when we arrived in 2019. Six years later, 3,400 native saplings — mesquite, palo verde, ironwood — line a half-mile run along Ellsworth. We planted them on Saturdays. Whoever showed up did the work.
This is what restoration looks like at the small, neighborhood scale: one corner, six years, every Saturday somebody could come.
The honest answers — no insider language, no qualifications. If your question isn’t here, call us at the number on the closing page. Real human, 9 AM to 7 PM.
Just yourself. We supply Bibles, kids’ activity bags, a pot of coffee, and the Sunday meal. If you want to contribute a side dish to the community lunch, the kitchen will gladly take it — no signup required.
Yes. Nursery for ages 0–3 and a kids’ program for ages 4–10 run during the 11 AM service. Both rooms are staffed by two background-checked volunteers, the door is propped, and a parent pager system goes off if your kid needs you.
A 60-minute service with three songs, a 25-minute sermon out of Scripture, and Communion. Then a 90-minute community meal — you can stay or you can leave. Roughly half the room stays. Roughly half goes home.
Saturday planting at 7 AM, Sunday kitchen at 9 AM, or Tuesday recovery hospitality at 5:30 PM. Show up once. If you’d like to come back, the team lead will plug you in — we don’t do online signups.
Yes. We’re a Christian Reformed Church plant in partnership with Acts 29. Doctrinally Reformed, missiologically urban, practically a neighborhood church.
Yes. About a third of the room on any given Sunday isn’t (yet). The Sunday meal especially is for the neighborhood, not the membership roll. You don’t need to believe anything to eat with us.
The three things we’ve promised the neighborhood we’ll keep doing — for as long as someone shows up to do them with us.
A 60-minute Sunday service at 11 AM. Three songs, one sermon, Communion at every gathering, and a meal that runs another 90 minutes.
Plan your Sunday →The Sunday meal, the Wednesday pantry, and the Tuesday recovery cohort — the three ways our doors stay open all week to whoever needs them.
See the work →3,400 native trees planted on Saturdays since 2019. A wash that was bare caliche is now a half-mile mesquite-and-palo-verde corridor.
Join a Saturday →Five paths into the work. Each one starts with showing up once. After that, the team lead carries it from there.
Show up Sunday at 9 AM in the back-lot kitchen. The lead will hand you a knife or a skillet. We feed roughly 200 people a week between members and the neighborhood — about 30 hands turn that into a calm two-hour shift.
The neighborhood already has a story before we showed up; our job is to recognize and join, not impose.
Our walls don’t define our work. The half-mile around the corner of Queen Creek & Ellsworth is the parish — meaning the families on those blocks are the ones we’re accountable to, whether or not they ever cross our threshold.
Different starting points; same table at the end of the hallway.
Pull into the gravel lot off Ellsworth at 10:50. A greeter named Marisol or Dean will be at the door. Sit anywhere; rows aren’t reserved. Stay for the meal if you can — that’s where the church actually meets the church.
Sunday is one of seven days. Here’s what the other six look like.
A free, plated, sit-down meal in the sanctuary every Sunday after the 11 AM service. Roughly 200 plates a week — about 60% members and regulars, 40% from the neighborhood.
Roughly half the produce is grown on church-property raised beds. The rest comes from the Mesa Co-op and seven East-Valley farms that donate weekly seconds. Volunteer crew rotates through 30 names; the meal lead is on her fourth year.
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