How It All Started

My house wasn’t good enough to invite people over. That was my excuse, anyway. When we built our house, my husband and I made the decision that it was time to start inviting people over. We couldn’t use our home or location as an excuse anymore. I was reading a Christian book of essays and there was a chapter on the author and her supper club. I decided a supper club was exactly what we needed to be more intentional with having people over. I prayed and then I reached out to the three couples that God had put on my heart. They said yes. And supper club began.

Two of the couples were from our church and we’d been in a Bible study with them. The Bible study had dissolved and we would randomly see them around at church. These four people are near and dear to me now, but I want to make sure that I convey that when we started these people weren’t best friends of ours or anything. They were people that we had casual friendships with. I share this because God may choose an someone that’s an acquaintance and use Supper Club to grow your friendship.

The other couple was and still is my very best friend. Eventually, she and her husband stepped away because their obligations at church were growing. We stayed a Supper Club of six for awhile, taking our time to pray over who would be the perfect addition. Eventually, a new couple came to our church that we all got to know and we knew that they were who we’d been waiting for.

All the Details

How often do you meet for Supper Club? Once a month.

Are kids invited? Between the four couple we have fifteen kids (six are ours). Our Supper Clubs are kid-free. We have one couple that puts their littles in bed around 7pm and Supper Club begins around 7:15. Some hire a sitter and some spend the night at grandparent’s.

Where do you meet? We rotate houses and we also have a restaurant outing built into the rotation so that everyone can have a break.

Is it a potluck? Nope. When it’s your turn to host, you are the host!! You plan, decorate, cook, and clean up. Sometimes the host is feeling fancy and sometimes you are pregnant or have a newborn and you just do the best you can.

Keep In Mind…

This is how we run our Supper Club. If you want to include kids, go for it. If you want it to be potluck style, go for it. But the bottom line is, go for it! I can’t tell you what a blessing it has been to gather with these people every month going on almost seven years!

An awesome resource to have as you start your own Supper Club is my most favorite book Spectacular Spreads (yep, that is an affiliate link!). You’ll be seeing a blog post soon where I host Supper Club using one of the Spreads from this book!

I’d love to hear and answer your comments or questions!

XO,

Sharlie