Entertaining Angels: Red Letter Words, The Hip Hostess, The Reluctant Entertainer GIVEAWAY!
I’m SO excited for this giveaway today! It’s amazing, and it’s all about hospitality, and my friends Dee and Debbie are joining me.
We live in a culture where most of us don’t have strangers coming to our door asking for food. During the Depression, however, my grandparents did have this happen. I remember my Grandma sharing stories with me of how she’d feed them, give them coffee, share God with them, and send them on their way. I will never forget how later in life when I’d read this verse (Heb. 13:2), I’d think of Grandma, but it would also get me thinking not only about my life, but our culture today.
Years ago when I started blogging about entertaining and hospitality, I asked readers what kind of people they entertained the most in their homes.
The popular answers were:
1. FAMILY
2. PEOPLE FROM CHURCH
It actually made me sad that we don’t reach out more to neighbors, people of different faiths, backgrounds, and cultures.
Why do we stuff hospitality into a box, making it so pretty, perfectly safe, and always predictable? (Many of us rarely even open up our homes!)
So today Dee from Red Letter Words and Debbie from The Hip Hostess and I are giving away 3 items to ONE LUCKY WINNER.
We want to challenge you to think about hospitality with FRESH EYES.
We want to encourage you to do something different, radical, and courageous when it comes to opening your home for a meal.
It’s up to you to decide what it will be.
The cool GIVEAWAY:
Red Letter Words
Hebrews 13:2 Entertaining Angels gallery wrapped canvas
12×12
Here’s how Dee’s work is mounted. Down-right classy!
(Read the “Design Story” behind “Entertaining Angels,” HERE. A must-read!)
The Hip Hostess
4 BRAND NEW spring prints (below) – the winner gets to CHOOSE ONE!
This is fun! Do you know any of these bloggers wearing HH Aprons?
BTW, the NEW Annual “Hurry Spring” Sale starts today!
Use this Promo Code: SPRING25 for 25% OFF thru Mar 31
The Reluctant Entertainer
ONE signed copy (Yes, I’m wearing a Hip Hostess apron in my book! The Nester took this picture, but I know she won’t mind me using it here.)
COMMENT TO WIN all 3 amazing gifts that will help you with hospitality!
How do you feel about hospitality and does Hebrews 13:2 challenge you?
Do you always have the same people over for dinner or have you branched out?
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Every year we try to reach out and aquaint ourselves to a new neighbor or parent from school. Such a blessing to know each one! And even a bigger blessing when our family has gained a new friendship!
Love the quote! Love to entertain! I am just as comfortable with a houseful as I am with our family of 3! This past December I had surgery on the 15 and had two large parties, one on the 19th . . . high school basketball team. . . . a full feed! and the other one on the 23. . . . coaches, friends, and their kids. . . . full feed as well! They look forward to it each year. Tonight we are entertaining one of my hunbands co-workers who is a single man. . . . he loves my meatloaf! So, we try to have him out to our home for dinner every so often. Nothing stuffy just family food, fun, and hospitality. Can’t wait to open the grill! The sigh would look great in my kitchen. . . its a gathering place!
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Hmmm… Well, we are great at entertaining family & friends, but it isn’t to reach out to others when only 1 sided… I am currently trying to teach my family about giving to others. This seems to be something not only my 3 toddlers struggle with, but sometimes my spouse as well. He always jokes that I would give away everything in our home if I knew I could get away with it:) Well, not everything, I would keep him & the kids! Ha! Praying this and many other verses over my home and those of us living in it.
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What a beautiful print! And a woman can always use another apron. :)
I absolutely love your BLOG and love the Hebrews verse. My mother often entertained with large and small groups of friends and our church family growing up. And, she often invited strangers to spend the holidays and special occasions with us. I find great joy in having friends and family in our home and have a husband who also loves to entertain. When I read that verse, though, it reminded me of all the years my mother truly lived that verse. Great memories and a reminder to share hospitality with strangers…as we may be entertaining angels. My mother passed away 15 years ago in April, and I am quite certain she is entertaining many ‘angels’ still today! Thank you!
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First of all this is one of my favorite verses in the Bible which I have highlighted and underlined in my Bible. A friend of mine gave me a small plaque years ago with this verse after her Miscellanenous Bridal Tea as a hostess gift. I grew up in a household where my parents entertained friends, family and there Sunday school class year round. So my husband and I have continued the tradition all year long in our home with tea’s, baby showers, bible study gatherings, football parties etc. It all belongs to the Lord anyway including our home. Yes…we usually do have the same people over because their all an extention of our family anyway.
Happy Entertaining,
Kristin
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I love entertaining. I actually think it may be one of my spiritual gifts, but I have allowed the busyness of motherhood and constant stress about making it “perfect” to prevent me from really sharing that. I believe we should be willing to invite people over on a moment’s notice, but sadly, I don’t follow that. I would love to have a visual reminder to share in fellowship with more people.
I LOVE this verse, it is such a great reminder. I love to entertain though it happens a little less these days, We are Active Duty Military so it is hard to do sometimes for us. I have shared this link of the giveaway on Facebook. Thank you for doing this, so excited to maybe win:)))
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We love to entertain and have friends/family over! However, in our busy-ness, we haven’t had too many people over besides family and scheduled growth group nights. We’ve made excuses… The house isn’t clean enough or we don’t have a “fancy” meal to serve. After re-reading Heb 13:2, I feel challenged to invite people from outside my circle of comfort and to not to worry about appearances as that is not what matters. My mind is filling with ideas and I am excited to get back in the habit of reaching out to others :)
How do you feel about hospitality and does Hebrews 13:2 challenge you?
my God given gift isn’t exactly entertaining/hospitality, but i can enjoy having friends over for a good time. i’m better at being friendly and entertaining angels out in public, like buying someone their order in the car behind me at a drive thru, helping a stranger with someting, smiling and saying hi to a passer-by.
Do you always have the same people over for dinner or have you branched out?
i definitely always have the same people over, my branching out would actually be asking someone over for dinner. hahaha!
I love that verse and have it on a plaque outside by our front door. I bought it years ago when we entertained all the time to one and all. We have strayed from doing that – for really no good reason other than laziness. Time to renew that verse into our lives.
I’m guilty of staying in my comfort zone when it comes to hospitality and entertaining. I enjoy it, and love trying new ides/recipes/etc but prefer to stick to close friends and family…just in case something goes wrong, you know!? Although the thought has crossed my mind several times to extend an invite to “strangers” I never follow through. Hebrews 13:2 has reminded me that we are to honor God with everything, including our hospitality, and I need to get out the “skinny branch” and reach out to others!
I love to have people over! My husband always feels awkward when we have people over from “different groups”. He says that it’s hard to get conversation going when people don’t know one another… but that’s the fun part for me! One Easter (and also Christmas), we had 7 people over and the only thing that linked everyone was my husband and me. All of these people didn’t have a place to go for Eater, so I invited each individual one by one until our Easter group grew. We knew some of the peple well; others we had met once or twice– some we didn’t even meet until Easter day (a friend of friend had told me about one girl who planned on eating cereal because she didn’t have a place to go. I said, NOPE, and gave her a ring.) I adore having people over to my home. It’s what makes me tick.
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After being at a few friends’ last minute gatherings lately, I’m remembering how easy it is to invite a few friends over without everything having to be perfect. I have calls into 2 different couples that we’ve never had over to try to expand our hosting horizons.
Ok, last one, I promise! Another super-easy way to really fill a need is to invite an international to your usual Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter celebration. They usually have nowhere to go on that day and all the Americans they know are not available.
When we’re in town, we can easily invite someone over, but if we’re going to his parents or my parents, we see who back there we can invite – hey, as long as you let Grandma know how many people are coming so she knows how much to cook (and of course I’ll pitch in a make a dish or two), it doesn’t matter if they’re not family! At first we worried a little what she would think if we invited someone she didn’t know, but she’s very polite so she got used to it. For Christmas, we prepare a present or two for the international guest so when people open gifts he/she can participate.