Reimagine Faith. Rediscover Community.
Why We’re Passionate about What We Do
Setting the Table was founded on a love for creativity, spirituality, and community. We believe in the power of creative prayer to heal, transform, and connect people with Jesus. Each session offers a space for authenticity, vulnerability, and spiritual growth—whether you’re rediscovering your story or seeking a fresh encounter in your faith.
Rooted in Brain Science
Research reveals that creative and sensory activities can unlock deep emotional insights and foster spiritual connection. By engaging our brains through hands-on art like Loose Parts Collage, watercolor, or clay-based explorations , we tap into pathways that allow for reflection, discovery, and a meaningful engagement with faith. This practice activates somatic memory, helping participants access emotions and memories while nurturing the body-mind connection in safe, powerful ways.
Our Values
Everyone Is Creative: Each person is full of God-given gifts and abilities that are needed in the world. Creativity flows through every life, and we honor the unique ways God expresses His truth through each of us.
Respect for Differences: We honor diversity in all forms—whether expressed through stories, ideas, or artistic choices—believing that each perspective brings value to the table.
Dialogue Opens Doors: Listening, dialogue, and shared reflection open doors to deeper understanding, healing, and connection with God and each other.
Experiential Learning with Jesus: Spiritual growth happens through experiential engagement with art, community, Scripture, and Jesus’ teachings. As we work with materials and ideas, we listen for God’s voice guiding us.
What makes us unique:
Setting the Table works to build studio environments that invite people from all backgrounds and walks in life to come together around Jesus to care for another and our culture. It is a place where we learn from one another and work alongside each other to explore the deeper questions around who Jesus is and what it means to follow him in the 21st century.
Why is the work we do important?
Why is it that despite our belief in God's love so many believers don't experience that love in our relationships with others?
Why is it even after we have learned about God wanting to soften our hearts we often don’t experience God’s transforming power and love?
The United States and more specifically the Evangelical Church in the United States is a left brain dominant culture. When our left brain is dominant it hinders us from accessing right brain modes of being. Research shows that feeling, healing, and transformation requires us to engage both sides of our brains. Knowing scripture, researching, lectures, sermons, these are all left brain oriented activities. But mostly staying in our left brain is not living life to the fullest. We were made to easily flow between our left and right brain to experience life, each other, and God.
We are most alive and move towards metal, physical, and spiritual health when both sides of our brain are integrated. Setting the Table recognizes and supports an integrated brain. We do this through setting up experiences that invite us to pay attention and explore what we think and feel. Next we ask participants to express their discoveries using both sides of our brains through the creative arts. By sharing what we create with others we invite them into crossing between their left to right brains, thus also moving them towards deeper connection and transformation.
Hive Gatherings: Are spaces where creatives come together to experiment, to imagine greater possibilities, try out new ideas, and share experiences.