Can a simple dinner party for the neighbors change the world?Karen Mains says, "Yes!"And inOpen Heart, Open Homeshe shows how. In this classic on Christian hospitality, Karen Mains steps far beyond how-to-entertain hints to explore a biblical and spiritual approach to using your home to care for others. This approach to hospitality can literally transform the fabric of your community and your world.If you labor under the illusion that hospitality requires Martha Stewart-like abilities, then Mains will free you from a load of guilt! Instead, she offers fresh and inspiring ideas for using your own resources to serve rather than to impress with new "opening the door" activities in each chapter. You will discover how the Holy Spirit can work in and through you to make others feel welcome and wanted.Whether you are a business executive or a homemaker, a professional minister or a layperson, a seasoned entertainer or an entertaining klutz, you will find here the encouragement and skills you need to reach out with the gospel through daily acts of acceptance, belonging and love.

Karen Mains is a prolific author and an articulate communicator whose prizewinning books address deep spiritual issues. Many of her creative works have been birthed out of personal experience as a pastor's wife and her years in radio and television broadcasting with The Chapel of the Air Ministries. She and her husband, David, live in the Chicago suburbs