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Care for a cappuccino?
Posted by Roger Bird on 9 Oct 2008
How often do you take time for a chat over coffee (or tea)? Probably the most valuable thing we can give someone else is our time – and I think that’s one of the reasons why the Alpha course has proved so successful. Time to ask, time to talk, time to think - so hard to find in today's society. So why not attach that time to a meal, which we have to eat at some point anyway? All of a sudden, it’s not wasted time.
Here’s another way in which Christians are finding time to share their faith in a way that others outside the church find attractive. Costa Coffee on Welwyn Garden City’s high street opens after hours on a Sunday for a “cafechurch”, led by a former Baptist pastor, where people enjoy coffee and debate on a range of issues from debt and angels to marriage and parenting. Now all 600 branches of Costa coffee have been given the thumbs up to do the same if approached.