June 2013 Council Agenda - International Pentecostal Holiness ...

COFFEE HOUSE
New Coffee House in Vilvoorde / Zaventem , Belgium, The Bridge Café. FYI - Following is Bill
Schwartz’s strategy for piloting a new location in this area.
We want to use the Coffee House as an outreach effort for our new church plant. This will
not only allow us to present the gospel but, it will also allow us to make contact with
new people as we endeavor to build life giving relationships. This particular region is
void of Churches.
The name of our new church is called “The Bridge”. Our vision is to establish an events
oriented Coffee House called “The Bridge Café”. Unlike the conventional coffee
house we desire to open for seven events a year. Each night will have a theme. Our
theme ideas are as follows: Cinema Night, Jazz Night, Open Mic Night, Gallery Night
(Paintings, sculpture, etc.). We want to use these events to draw people in. This will
allow us to make contact and present new relationships. We will use the building we use
for Sunday services.
Defining coffee house ministry in its beginning stage and first year of operation.
We will offer free admission events. This will allow us to use talent and the arts to
attract people. This will also provide a ministry avenue for our people to express
their gifts and desire to reach others. Starting out we will:
1) Brand and print promotional material.
2) Select a theme for each event.
3) Develope a website
4) Develop an event calendar
Goals that we want to accomplish during the first year of operation.
1) We want to make contact with new unbelieving people.
2) This Coffee House to be a training opportunity for our members to become
bold in their faith and to reach out to their personal networks.
3) New Convert growth for “The Bridge” Church.
As we are a new church plant of just 7 months the coffee house will allow us to
make contact with new people. We have set a goal of developing a
systematic form of outreach. The coffee house is the first step. This region is a
new area for the IPHC. We hope to use this to make our presence known. As we
consider new plants in new regions we hope this form of coffee house will
become a model for new plants.
In the second year we hope to have an established staff and increase our
events to monthly. We would also like to see this coffee house to be a center for
interns to serve and be trained in reaching others.
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