Cari Jenkins is the founder of The Host and the Guest, an organization that brings hospitality to life through consulting, workshops, and speaking. Cari helps create cultures of welcome, transforming functional into hospitably reorienting spaces. In her hometown of Denver, Colorado, she is part of the preaching team of Platt Park Church and is the community steward of the Downing House, a ministry of place where people are encouraged to learn about and deepen their relationship with Jesus, and discover and pursue God’s calling for their lives.

Cari tends to the soul through experience, hospitality, and thoughtful leadership. She has been creating and leading retreats and gatherings for over three decades. In recent years she has co-founded Fully Awake, an immersive learning experience for women, held in Spain each year, and Come to the Table, a spiritual formation retreat held in Florence, Italy. She is also the founder of The Garden retreat, a gathering for men and women who desire to have their lives formed by the self-giving love of the Trinity rather than the narrative of religious power.

She is the author of Listen and Live, a regular podcast guest in both business and faith spaces, a gatherer of people, a creator of beauty, and a weaver relationally. If you’re ever in Denver you are truly welcome to come to her table.