• print   • email Published: 12:00 AM, Sun Oct 27, 2013  Feasts
at Southern church homecomings fuel fellowship, worship and
reminiscing  Some come back for family and friends.  Some come
back to rejuvenate their faith.  Some come back just to find a
simpler, less complicated time.  But everyone comes back for the
food.  If you're from the South, you know about church
homecomings - whether you grew up in a little brown church in
the vale, or were awed as a child by majestic steeple spires.
And you're no stranger to the "groaning board" - the tables that
sag beneath the weight of home-cooked holiness as the faithful
gather for "dinner on the ground."  "We like to think that it's
the preaching that brings people back," said Cureton Johnson,
senior pastor of First Baptist Church on Moore Street. "But the
real attraction is that meal waiting at the end."  For the
newcomer, dinner on the ground is both a delightful surprise and
a bit of a mystery. It's the one time churchgoers turn a blind
eye to the sin of glutto