Coffee=Outreach

This week the team and I had the opportunity of learning about church plants, and new ways of reaching the community.

We were in Acton this week, at a church plant off the Erin Village Alliance Church, where we had our 3rd week of camps. This church was started just recently by 4 families. These 4 families have just invested a great deal of money into buying a bar called "Manny's Roadhouse", and are the process of totally turning it around.

Originally this bar had been a coffee shop in the 50's, and they planned to make it into the same kind of coffee shop, along with a music hall. These will both serve as outreach opportunities. They hope to build relationships with the costumers, and hopefully from there tell them about God. They will provide free coffee for customers on Sundays when they are having their church services, and with the music coming from the service at the hall in the back, they hope for the costumers to check out the church.

They are calling it Crossings Community Church. They call it this because the people can cross right over from the coffee shop and into the church.

What an amazing way to outreach, beginning with only 4 families. If you're reading this, could u pray for this church and their ministry. They are going public some time this December and they still have lots of cleaning to do. It still has the stale smell of alcohol, but everything is coming along nicely. Praise God for this ministry