Welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks so much for joining me today.

Since so many of you are either starting Sabbath dinners or you're still celebrating

Sabbath dinners in the midst of many years of doing it or you're thinking about getting

started, I thought I would just tell you a couple of my favorite Sabbath dinners stories.

All right. The first is from Grace Agenda in 2013, almost 10 years ago. We were so thrilled

that John Piper and Tim Chester were coming to speak on Gospel Presence, which was a theme

of Grace Agenda that year. The conference ended Saturday and our plan was to host many

people for Sabbath dinner, including our speakers, of course, and our family and many out

of town guests. I'm afraid I have no idea what the numbers were for that dinner. But

when we had things like that on the calendar, my idea is to do as much in advance as I can

possibly do, especially because I knew I'd be busy on Friday with the Feminine Conference,

and then I was hoping to attend as many of the talks as I could on Saturday. Our home

had a big family room downstairs, and so sometimes I would set up tables there when we had

big numbers. And I later learned that I could actually arrange it upstairs to by setting

up lots of folding tables. But meanwhile, I set up tables probably on Wednesday of the

Grace Agenda week. We had four college girls living with us, and they graciously moved

all their stuff out of the family room so I could take it over entirely. The other bonus

for setting it up there was we had a counter and a sink down there, and it was out of our

way. We could all just walk around it for the next couple of days, and it wasn't in the

middle of everything. So, upwind the tables, onwind the tablecloths, and all the play

settings, including the play cards for the guests, so everyone would know where to sit.

And by the way, I do think with a big group that it's a real kindness to have play cards,

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