St. Lydia's: Dinner Church and Co-working in New York City

304 Bond St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, USA
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+1 646-580-1247

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This review is for the co-working space, not the church. I really wanted to love St. Lydia's and was enticed by its purported flexibility and non-profit affiliation. As a humanitarian aid worker, my deployments can be unpredictable, and an assignment out of the country got extended after I signed up for the space. I asked for a PARTIAL refund and was flatly refused. I ended up paying $320 for 1 visit. Non-negotiable. Buyer beware.
We were fortunate to be among the congregation for the second "Waffle Church." It is a way for St Lydia's to reach out to families with young children and other adults who love such a wonderful and enriching time together. It takes place on Sunday morning at 11:00 and provides an amazing atmosphere for hearing the Word of God in storytelling form, upbeat singing, craft activities and an amazing family style of meal of waffles, fruit and more. It's clear that St. Lydia's is building community as well as serving others who are in need. Open and Inclusive, it was one of the absolutely best moments we had in NYC on our recent visit. Get in touch and so see for yourself. You won't be disappointed.
I visit St. Lydia's every time I'm in New York and recommend it to other visitors. I've been been in New York at least twice a year since St. Lydia's began. Regulars now introduce me to newer people as a friend of the congregation from San Francisco. St. Lydia's really gets genuine welcome. It's also always renewing itself, grow, changing from very good to even better. So many visits and it's still fresh and surprising in ways I love.
St. Lydia's is a welcoming, innovative, and flavorful church! It's a "dinner church" that puts its theology into practice every Sunday by sharing food, Scripture, story and community. Deeply rooted in the ancient Christian tradition of sacred meals, and also firmly engaged in the work of the here and now, St. Lydia's a growing, vibrant community. Come, eat, and see!
I try to explain St. Lydia's by saying it's the oldest new church in New York. We follow traditions laid out by the earliest churches—using the oldest eucharistic prayer, for instance, or gathering around a dinner table to celebrate and model the breaking of blessed bread and the drinking of consecrated fruit of the vine, rather than kneeling at an altar -- but our services are probably unlike others you've attended, due to the shared sermons, the paperless music, and the delicious food (seriously, you guys, delicious; we have tasty, filling vegetarian cuisine). I've been attending St. Lydia's since it began, but what I like about the church is that it doesn't feel "in-crowdy" -- it's easy for newcomers to get involved and feel a part of things because of our dinner church model. It makes me so proud and happy to hear how pleasantly surprised people are by the inclusivity of St. Lydia's, but I know exactly what they're comparing it to because I, too, had a very hard time finding a church in the city (it took me four years and I gave up several times). The community tends to skew slightly younger than a more traditional church, though we've got folks of all stripes who attend. More importantly to me, we've got people of all...levels of faithfulnes, I suppose, is the only way to say it. What matters to the community at St. Lydia's is coming together to explore a story and see how it can be reflected in our own personal experiences. What does NOT matter to the community at St. Lydia's is subscribing to a particular dogma. Have you ever gone to church and felt like you don't belong because you're not sure you agree, or you don't know what you're being implicitly asked to agree to? St. Lydia's works diligently to avoid that, and to instead find the commonality in our experiences and to learn from working, eating, and talking with one another rather than from a lecture and the repetition of creeds (and for what it's worth, I'm an old-school Episcopalian who actually LIKES repeating those creeds, but services at St. Lydia's work well for me, too).
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