The Upstream Collective visits Matthew’s Table, a church plant in Lebanon, TN. We interview church planter Michael Carpenter in Java Joe’s the coffee shop he opened in town.

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We met Michael Carpenter about a year ago at one of our “About Europe” mini-conferences in Nashville, TN. He had just launched Matthew’s Table, his church plant in nearby Lebanon. Since then, we’ve gotten to know Michael and watched with great interest as Matthew’s Table has consistently made deliberate decisions to take a missional approach [...]

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