The Table Collective

❤️ THE TABLE COLLECTIVE 🚒 FUNDRAISER UPDATE ❤️

We are so excited to share that our fundraiser to sponsor a local cadet was a success! Together, our community raised just shy of $2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ to go toward supporting a cadet in honor of Justin Hurd and his service! 🔥🚒

A HUGE thank you to everyone in our community who donated to the cadet project through our Apple Fest and Worship Night events. Every donation, big or small, helped make this possible!

We also want to thank Justin’s family for giving us the opportunity to honor his memory in such a meaningful way, and the department for allowing us to be part of this blessing.

And thank you to Sterling Christian Church and Hillsboro Nazarene Church for sponsoring the food for our event and helping us feed our community! ❤️

This is exactly what The Table Collective is about — Hope in Christ. Faith in action. Care in community.

Stay tuned for what we will be up to next! 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽🤍

TODAY’S THE DAY! ❤️🌭🎶

We’re so excited to serve our community a FREE meal for anyone who may need one—or just wants to come enjoy one!

🌭 Full hot dog bar + drinks
📍 Downtown Veedersburg — at the stage/gazebo
⏰ 6:30 PM and throughout Worship Night

We’ll also be accepting in-kind donations in memory of Justin Hurd, with the hope of helping a new cadet at one of our local stations with the cost of their education and training. We’ve already raised $500, and we’d love to keep that going! ❤️

Can’t make it tonight but would like to donate? Send us a message and we’ll get you set up!

Most importantly, we’d love to see you there for worship, a meal, and fellowship. Come as you are, bring a friend, and spend the evening with us! 🙏🏼❤️

Everyone is welcome!

*** Worship Event Informarion Flyer Located in the comments!

🎉 Join The Table Collective TODAY for our LAST event at our building! 🎉

Come help us say goodbye to this special space, grab some FREE popcorn 🍿, and enjoy one last gathering with our community!

We’ll also be collecting donations for our local firefighter cadet fund in memory of Justin Hurd — and we’re already at $500 raised! ❤️🧯

Every little bit helps us bless a local cadet and send them off with support from their community.

📍 The Table Collective
🕐 Today 11-4 @ The Covington Apple Fest 🍎
🍿 Free popcorn
❤️ Community + giving
🚒 Support our local cadet

Come say goodbye, grab some popcorn, and help us reach our goal! 🫶

🌭 Come eat FREE hot dogs with The Table Collective this Sunday at WORSHIP NIGHT DOWNTOWN! ❤️

Join us for free food, fellowship, and community! We’ll also be sharing an exciting update about The Table Collective’s new digital model of operation and what’s ahead for our mission.

Bring your family, invite a friend, and come hang out with us! 🫶

Free food. Fellowship. Hope in Christ. Faith in action. Care in community.

📍 We’d love to see you there!

🥹❤️ THIS WEEKEND IS A BIG ONE!

We have an opportunity to bring FREE FOOD to our community — and, more importantly, bring Jesus with it. 🙏🏼

Groceries are expensive right now, and with the cost of everything else continuing to add up, we know there are families who could really use a little extra help this weekend.

There may be a family on your Facebook feed who needs this. They may not feel comfortable asking, but seeing this post could be exactly what they need. ❤️

So please SHARE this post and help us get the word out! 📲

Our hope is that no one feels ashamed to accept a helping hand. We want to meet people where they are, love them well, and remind them that they are seen, they are loved, and their community cares.

🥫 Free food
🤍 Community care
✝️ The love of Jesus

Share, tag a friend, and help us reach the family that needs it this weekend! ❤️

Hope in Christ. Faith in action. Care in community.

The last weekend of September is a BIG one for The Table Collective, and we would love to see you at one — or BOTH — of our community events!

This will also be our LAST EVENT AT OUR COVINGTON BUILDING before we transition to a digital model. While we’re closing one chapter, we are incredibly excited to see what route God has ahead for The Table Collective. 🙏

🍎 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Covington Apple Festival | Serving from 11 AM–4 PM

Come find The Table Collective at the Apple Festival! We’ll be handing out FREE popcorn 🍿 and collecting donations toward our goal of supporting a local firefighter.
| In memory of Justin Hurd |

Stop by, grab some popcorn, say hello, and help us show appreciation for the men and women who put their lives on the line to serve our communities. 🚒❤️

Miss us Saturday? Come see us Sunday!

🌭 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Community Worship Night | Serving dogs starting at 6:30 PM

We’ll be at the Veedersburg Amphitheater serving the community FREE hotdogs, chips & drinks 🌭🥤 while continuing to collect donations toward our firefighter support goal.
| In memory of Justin Hurd |

This event is in sponsorship with Hillsboro Church of the Nazarene and Sterling Christian Church s Community Worship Night and Veederburg Revitalization. 🙏❤️

📌 Their event flyer is posted in the comments with more information about the worship night!

📖 Be sure to check out the slide below to see just how much it can cost for someone to become a firefighter and serve with a department. We hope it gives some perspective on the commitment these men and women make to serve others.
Whether you stop by Saturday, Sunday, or both, we’d love to see you!

And a HUGE thank you to all of our amazing sponsors who continue to make these events possible. Your generosity allows us to keep giving back, serving our community, and creating opportunities to help others. You never cease to amaze us with your kindness. ❤️

We can’t wait to see where God takes us next.
Hope in Christ. Faith in action. Care in community.
At our table, everyone has a seat to serve. ❤️

✏️ WE HAVE A WINNER! ✏️

Congratulations to our winner 🏆 LINDSAY WILDMAN 🏆who was nominated by Kate Horlacher with the correct guess of 93 PENCILS in our jar! ✏️

(Proof of guess in the comments)

Thank you SO much to everyone who participated! We can’t wait to do more of these drawings and continue reminding our community that YOU are what makes The Table Collective go around! 🤍

And another HUGE thank you to our incredible sponsors — Suzie Q’s, Hershey’s, and Brewer Family Farm Stand — for coming alongside us to bless a teacher in our community! We are so grateful for your generosity and for helping us love our teachers well. 🍎✏️

Praying for a continued great school year! Teachers, you are a light to God’s children, and the impact you make reaches so much further than you know. ❤️

Congratulations, LINDSAY!
We hope you feel extra loved and appreciated today! We will message you privately to get you your gift! ✨

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO GET YOUR GUESSES & NOMINATIONS IN 🎉✏️🏆

🍎✏️ TEACHER GIVEAWAY! ✏️🍎

Let’s love on a teacher who may need a little extra encouragement as we get into the swing of regular weeks and that back-to-school excitement starts to wear off! 🤍

We’re giving away a $50-value teacher gift! 🎉 And our local sponsors helped make it extra sweet:

🥪 Suzie Q’s — something yummy to eat
🍦 Hershey’s — because teachers deserve ice cream!
🌽 Brewer Family Farm Stand — some homegrown/homemade goodies
🛍️ Amazon — for classroom supplies OR a little something just for themselves! 😉

Here’s how to enter:
👇🏼 Comment below and nominate ONE favorite teacher (only one! Sorry! 😂)
✏️ Then, take your best guess at how many pencils are in our jar!

Check the reference photo in the comments for the jar you’re guessing from! ⬇️

This weekend, we’ll see who had the closest guess and announce our winning teacher! 🍎🎉

And a HUGE thank you to all of our amazing local business sponsors for playing such a big part in loving our community and showing up when our neighbors are in need. 🤍 We’re so grateful for businesses who pour back into the people around them!

Now… who’s a teacher that deserves a little extra love?! 👇🏼✏️🍎

🍎✏️ TEACHER GIVEAWAY! ✏️🍎

Let’s love on a teacher who may need a little extra encouragement as we get into the swing of regular weeks and that back-to-school excitement starts to wear off! 🤍

We’re giving away a $50-value teacher gift! 🎉 And our local sponsors helped make it extra sweet:

🥪 Suzie Q’s — something yummy to eat
🍦 Hershey’s — because teachers deserve ice cream!
🌽 Brewer Family Farm Stand — some homegrown/homemade goodies
🛍️ Amazon — for classroom supplies OR a little something just for themselves! 😉

Here’s how to enter:
👇🏼 Comment below and nominate ONE favorite teacher (only one! Sorry! 😂)
✏️ Then, take your best guess at how many pencils are in our jar!

Check the reference photo in the comments for the jar you’re guessing from! ⬇️

This weekend, we’ll see who had the closest guess and announce our winning teacher! 🍎🎉

And a HUGE thank you to all of our amazing local business sponsors for playing such a big part in loving our community and showing up when our neighbors are in need. 🤍 We’re so grateful for businesses who pour back into the people around them!

Now… who’s a teacher that deserves a little extra love?! 👇🏼✏️🍎

🤍 A New Chapter for The Table Collective 🚪🪴

Today we’re sharing something that feels a little bittersweet, but also really exciting.

After a lot of conversations, reflection, and prayer, The Table Collective will be moving to a primarily digital platform and saying goodbye to our physical space for now.

When we started The Table Collective, we jumped in at an out-of-this-world pace. Most nonprofits take quite a while to find their footing, build their team, establish their mission, and really get going. Somehow, we did so much of that in just six months.

And while we’re incredibly proud of what we accomplished, we also want to be honest about what we’ve learned.

Our physical space didn’t operate quite the way we originally envisioned. We found ourselves naturally doing so much of our work, communication, outreach, and giving back through our digital platforms anyway.

We also learned that maintaining a physical space takes a lot of time, manpower, and hands—and honestly, we’re just not quite ready for that yet.

Our board is still learning. Our team is still shifting and growing. We want to be intentional about where we ask people to pour their time and energy, and right now, we believe those hands can make a much bigger impact out in our community than inside a building. 🤍

Moving primarily digital means less overhead and more resources available to the people we’re here to serve.

And when we step back and look at the heart of The Table Collective, we keep coming back to our main mission and vision:

Helping families in our community who are walking through a crisis.

We want to be a place families can turn when life throws something at them they simply weren’t prepared for—an unexpected need, an emergency, or a season where they just need someone to come alongside them.

This next chapter will give us more freedom to do exactly that.

We’re dreaming about sponsoring a local cadet, hosting an elderly work day for someone who needs a few extra hands, helping families through unexpected emergencies, and partnering with local businesses and organizations to host workshops and provide resources.

These are just a few of the things we’re working toward, and more details are coming soon! ❤️

Because this doesn’t mean the dream is over.

It means we’re learning.

Our board is still learning.
Our team is still growing.
Our ideas are still evolving.
And we are still relying on God to mold us, guide us, and show us where He wants this organization to go.

We don’t have everything figured out—and we don’t think we’re supposed to.

We just know we’re not done yet. ❤️

To all of our sponsors and supporters who helped us create our physical space, thank you. We are incredibly grateful for every person and business who believed in us enough to help make that space possible.

We also plan to keep all of the furniture and pieces from our space safely in storage because we still hope that one day, when the time and opportunity are right, we can create a physical home for The Table Collective again.

And we are especially grateful to Dwell LLC for allowing us the use of their space as we got started. That opportunity meant so much to us and gave us a place to begin building this dream. 🤍

So yes, we’re closing a door.

But we’re also opening another one.

And we’d love for you to come alongside us in this next chapter and cheer us on just as loudly as you did before.

We’re going to be sharing more about what this digital chapter will look like, how you can get involved, and the ways we’ll be loving on our community.

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And actually…

We’re already getting started. 👀❤️

We’re so excited to have some INCREDIBLE LOCAL BUSINESSES helping us kick off our very first digital outreach in celebration of the first month back to school!

We’ve got something special planned for our teachers, and you definitely don’t want to miss being a part of this one. 🍎📚

More details Monday! STAY TUNED! 🎶

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For now, thank you for believing in us, giving us grace as we learn, and continuing to show up for this little dream.

We’re just getting started. ❤️