Thanks to Vintage Lunch Sponsor, Townsend McNitt

This fall, we’re asking our community to consider sponsoring a Vintage Lunch. Each lunch is catered by a local Charlottesville eatery and helps feed 40-50 students who come hungry for food and community and spiritual nourishment.

Townsend McNitt is mom to Perkins Fellow & Vintage Lunch Intern, Baillie McNitt ‘24.

Why did you choose to sponsor a Vintage lunch? How are you connected with Theological Horizons?

I first learned about TH when I read Karen’s book, Vintage Saints and Sinners. Baillie was a high school sophomore at the time but I remember telling her about Vintage Lunches and the work of TH and saying how wonderful it would be if she went to UVA and attended Vintage Lunches! And here we are, 5 years later, and Baillie is a Perkins Fellow and helping with Vintage Lunches. The Lord was clearly at work in all of this.

My husband and I are thrilled to support Vintage Lunches where students have a place to gather and grow in their faith while enjoying a good lunch! I love how TH is meeting students’ spiritual, mental and physical needs in such a simple, yet beautiful way.

What blessing, quote, or advice would you like to share with a UVa student?

Romans 15:13 "May the God of hope fill you with joy and peace as you trust in Him so that you overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

"We pray, God of grace and eternal life, that you may increase in us and strengthen in us your hope. Let us always have a longing for you who are the fulfillment of our lives, let us always count on you and your faithfulness, let us always unflinchingly hold onto your power. Then we can tackle the task of our lives with courage, then there will live in us the joyous confidence of not laboring in vain, then we will do our work knowing that you, the Almighty One, are at work in us and through us. Strengthen in us your hope.”

It is a joy to play a very small part in the work of Theological Horizons. May God richly bless you and all the students and staff who gather!