Initial Cafe Proposal

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Café Church Thoughts—09-06-07

Once a month at Chedgrave from 10:00 – 12:00 on the first Sunday of the month.

Name

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Could be called Xpressions Café if we want to extend the brand

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Soul Café

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Carpenter’s Arms

Structure

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 Three parts:

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Café (call it Xpresso?) downstairs in church centre.

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Kidzone upstairs in church centre.

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Chillzone in church.

Café

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Café runs for two hours.

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All Age Worship team (augmented) run the café sessions.

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People can come and go as they please.

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Good quality real coffee is served (buy espresso machine?)

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Waitress service?

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Get rid of long tables and replace with smaller square table (can fit together if longer tables needed)?

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Café has no front, so everything happens from tables.

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Perhaps have ten minute periods of ‘worship’—a song, a ‘thought for the day’, an ‘open mike’ slot, etc.

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Video could play on (three?) flat screen monitors so that people don’t have to ‘face the front’.

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Talks and open mike sessions could be displayed on monitors by using a video camera.

Kidzone

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Xpressions team run the kidzone.

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‘Drop-in’ nature. Some will stay a long time, others will visit briefly.

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Multiple simultaneous activities interspersed with some ‘together time’?

Chillzone

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Run by the Inspire team (assuming such a thing exists).

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Ambient, quiet space.

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Perhaps some guided meditation from time to time.

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Perhaps a teaching zone at back of church at set times?

These are just a few ideas to spark conversation. Once we get really open to possibilities all sorts of other things will flood in.

Richard Seel 09-06-07.