Street Banquet

‘Working alongside and walking alongside the homeless community in Birmingham City Centre’

Street Banquet is a Church of the Margins project of Birmingham Methodist District

‘Street Banquet is rooted in Jesus’ Parable of the Great Feast as recorded in Luke 14:15-24.  Here is a vision of a table where the most marginalised and disempowered people are invited and welcomed as honoured guests.  The parable challenges social norms, breaks down barriers and turns conventional roles upside-down.  Street Banquet is a place where hosts become guests and guests become hosts – a sign of the New World of God.’

It is based upon four values;

Radical Acceptance

As in the parable of the Great Feast, this is a place of welcome for people who are marginalised and disempowered in our society.

Enduring Stability

As a marker of transformation, the Street Banquet (the popular name for Street Ecclesial Community) will always advocate, campaign, and serve in order to bring about enduring stability for those in the local Street Community.

Holistic Flourishing

Bringing together physical and social well-being with spiritual and emotional well-being, because we believe that we cannot be partly whole as human beings

Transforming Empowerment

Underpinned by a fundamental belief that all are made in God’s image, as guests become hosts, and begin to move towards holistic flourishing, people will begin to sense the call of God to a life of discipleship and leadership within the wider Christian family.

For more information on Street Banquet including a short video visit their website HERE

Visit HERE to read their write up for The Methodist Church