To come as you are, to bring all that is weighing on you, to pull up a chair, to rest, to laugh, to share your story, to find welcome, to experience the grace of seeing yourself and those around you through a lens of love and understanding.

Advent at The Welcome Table is a three-book series: Advent at The Welcome Table, Advent Table Talk, and Advent at The Kids Table. 

This series was written to be an offering of Hope, Peace, Joy, & Love in the Advent season, and each book is intentionally designed to be used independently or in tandem with one another. 

Advent at The Welcome Table is written for the adult reader. It is a resource of daily reflections that meet us in the holiday season with grace and renewal. Each day offers an invitation to come as you are, to meet God anew in stories and scripture, and to see the community around us through the renewed understanding of God’s gift of love for the world.

Advent Table Talk is a daily journal and discussion guide for your journey through the Advent season. This resource can be paired with Advent at The Welcome Table as a companion guide. Each day offers three daily prompts that can be used to guide discussion in a group setting or for individual reflective journaling responses. Advent Table Talk is meant to inspire deeper reflection within yourself and meaningful connection with others.

Advent at the Kids Table is jam-packed with stories, Scripture, and fun ways to bring more hope, peace, joy, and love into your kiddo’s Advent season in more tangible ways! This resource is designed to be read with an adult or independently by our big kid readers. Each day offers stories that correlate to the lessons found in Advent at The Welcome Table, along with activities and conversation starters that correlate to the prompts found in Advent Table Talk. This allows you to easily bring the conversation full circle within your family or community.  

While each resource in this Advent Series offers its own unique gift to the reader, when all three books are used together, this series is designed to create opportunities for you to journey through each day of Advent in meaningful conversation, bringing you closer together with loved ones, friends, and community this the holiday season!

With each book sold, 10% of the profits go toward Feeding America to help put food on the tables of hungry families!

We hope you will join us and order yours TODAY!!!

We, at The Welcome Table®, believe that real conversations and community happen in the spaces where the belovedness and the voices of all are welcomed and valued. For us, this is rooted in the example of Jesus who often used food and table to bring people from all walks of life into community together. Our objective is to help facilitate meaningful conversations that lead us to re-examine our own beliefs through a deeper understanding of the experiences and stories of those around us. This can only happen when people like you bring yourself, your voice, and your heart to the table.

We are “The Bunce Girls”, or at least that is what we have been called most of our lives. Originally from Lexington, North Carolina, we were raised surrounded by music, justice, and faith. Our mother and both grandmothers were music ministers, our father was an attorney, one grandfather was a professor, and the other was the pastor of our church. Needless to say, we were constantly challenged to express ourselves in thoughtful and meaningful ways. Often that was through the use of our voices, whether through singing or just good, honest conversation - conversations that most often took place around the table. Most of our Sunday afternoons were spent gathered around an open table with family and friends where the food was plentiful, stories and laughter connected our hearts, and where the presence of each individual was held sacred. It’s those moments that have inspired The Welcome Table®.