Homeless people are honored guests at an elegant dinner called The King's Table in Orange County as a way of bringing them dignity, hope, friendship and connection.
more effectively to tackle the enormous, growing and complex crisis of homelessness.
It is partly in this second sphere, I think, that efforts like the King’s Table can nudge. But the dinners also are about something deeper. In the house, I met an example of this in John Park, the chef of Toast Kitchen & Bakery in Costa Mesa, and a member of his crew, Clarence Williams. Williams met Park when he was a guest at a King’s Table dinner a year ago. Now he’sLo, 43, was dressed this early November evening in an elegant casual style. He wore a black T-shirt, black pants, pristinely white Nikes without socks. He looked like the celebrity surf instructor he is.
And as adults ate, children ran around the yard, squealing and playing. Volunteers are encouraged to bring them. When I had first arrived at the Villa Park home of Sean and Jessica Ward, I couldn’t stop gazing at the home next door, which looked like a plantation house. A multi-tiered fountain burbled away in the front garden. A sparkling chandelier lit the portico.
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