
Lawrenceville · Isaac and Leah
44th Street
The first table. Usually a pot of jollof rice, sometimes a lasagne. Two cats, one very old dog.

Tuesday tables
Four homes, eight to twelve people each, every Tuesday at 6:30. This is where most of the church actually happens.
The four tables
Every table is within a fifteen-minute walk of the lodge, and each has room for two or three more this fall.

Lawrenceville · Isaac and Leah
The first table. Usually a pot of jollof rice, sometimes a lasagne. Two cats, one very old dog.

Bloomfield · Rosa and Sal
Above a barbershop, up a steep flight of stairs. Rosa cooks for twelve whether eight come or not.

Polish Hill · Dev and Anika
Vegetarian, loud, with kids underfoot until 7:30. Bring an appetite.

Upper Lawrenceville · Walt
Walt's kitchen, Walt's rules. He makes pierogi on the first Tuesday of the month.
How it works
You don't need to have been to a Sunday first.
Use the form below or text Isaac. Tell us which night works and anything you can't eat.
The first time, Isaac or Leah meets you at the end of the host's block at 6:25 and walks you to the door, so you never knock on a stranger's house alone.
Dinner at 6:30, Sunday's reading at 7:30, home by 9. Bring nothing the first time.
Ask for a seat
Isaac will text back the same day with the corner to meet on and what's for dinner.
A real person will reply within a day.
Questions
You have to eat. Everything after that is optional. Plenty of people listen for weeks before they say anything.
Yes. All four tables have kids at them. They eat with everyone and then play while the adults read.
About a third of the people at our tables would say they aren't, or aren't sure. Questions are welcome. So is disagreeing.
Design notes
A website for a church that is five Sundays old. It opens with a letter, because in a new church the pastor is the first thing a visitor is really weighing up, and every page is honest about how small and new it all is.
Literata was drawn for reading long text on screens, and here it carries a pastor's letter set like an editor's page in a neighborhood paper. IBM Plex Sans does the practical work underneath: plain and slightly industrial, like the mill buildings along the river. Isaac's signature is set in Nothing You Could Do, a loose handwriting face, and appears exactly once.
The red is Lawrenceville brick, the color of every second rowhouse on Ashworth Street, and the gold is the paint on the Allegheny bridges, used only for small marks. The background is a cool stone gray, close to a Pittsburgh sky in October. Dark mode turns the brick toward the glow of a sodium streetlight.
A contents column on the right tracks where you are on each page, the way a well-made report does. Newcomers to a church plant read everything before they come, and long honest pages with a visible table of contents respect that. The one button in that column always says Come Sunday at 4:30.
The site opens with a letter from Isaac Danquah, set like an editor's letter with a huge greeting, two columns and a small portrait. A new church has no building and no history to show off. What it has is a person and a reason, so we let him say it in his own words.
Come Sunday at 4:30, Pull up a chair on Tuesday, Get coffee with Isaac, Join the launch team. Each one names a real thing at a real time, which matters when the church does not have a sign out front yet.
Pictures are few and modest on purpose: streets that look like Lawrenceville, a dinner table, Bibles with pencil marks. We avoided stage lights and crowds, because a church of sixty in a lodge hall should not look like an arena.
Body text is 17 pixels with generous line spacing and passes AAA contrast in the light theme. The contents column is a labeled landmark that screen readers can jump to, and every map has its address, parking and transit written out as plain text.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 13.92:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 15.25:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.57:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 6.19:1 | AA |
| Button text | Aa | 7.28:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 7.91:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 13.92:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.5:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 7.28:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 4.82:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 14.8:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 13.35:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.6:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 7.18:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 7.47:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 10.21:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 15.78:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.02:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 7.47:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 4.85:1 | AA |
Designed by Greater Purpose Web. Names, people and events are sample content.