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Wednesday, January 18, 2006Cafe Church - FRWY.ca
 In keeping with my general tradition of posting about examples of cafe church that I find, here is another. By the look of the website this looks to be a great example. FRWY.ca café is an innovative, non-profit coffee house and community commons that was started by a progressive, urban, artistic, missional church community called The Freeway Their selling points are great!: great coffee | art space | live music | dj showcases This is a really interesting outline of the idea of Third Place. For example: There are essential ingredients to a well-functioning third place. They must be free or inexpensive to enter and purchase food and drink within. They must be highly accessible to neighbourhoods so that people find it easy to make the place a regular part of their routine -- in other words, a lot of people should be able to comfortably walk to the place from their home. They should be a place where a number of people regularly go on a daily basis. It should be a place where the person feels welcome and comfortable, and where it is easy to enter into conversation. And a person who goes there should be able to expect to find both old and new friends each time she or he goes. Do places like this really still exist? Clearly the good old English pub is the prime example - but things are changing on that front aren't they? Anyway, to appreciate it all you also need to see their church blog, the colloquy. Enjoy! The only downer of the whole endeavour is that they haven't got a good grgaphic that I can put on this post!! Labels: cafe church, mission Posted by: Mark | 1:20 pm |
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