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The Christian Cafe Ministry held its third organizational meeting at Friendly's Restaurant on Sunday November 24th. We are praising God that yet another church expressed interest in this project. However, the turnout at the monthly meeting is lagging compared to the number of people expressing interest.

We will be contacting the churches that have expressed interest (as well as other churches we have "heard" that are interested) over the next 45 days. We want our January meeting to be the largest meeting yet (we are skipping a December meeting due to Christmas, but will be meeting again January 26th, 2003). We need all those interested in this project to attend the monthly meetings so that we can start to organize and make some decisions. If God wills this project to come to fruition, He will do so through His people!

So far the following local churches have expressed interest in becoming involved (either directly or via members who are interested):

1) Jamestown Bethel Baptist Church
2) Fluvanna Community Church
3) Christ First United Methodist
4) Zion Covenant Church
5) First Church of God

Other churches that we have "heard through the grapevine" that have interested members are: Hillcrest Baptist Church, Lakewood Baptist Church, Levant Weslyan Church, Kennedy Baptist Church, and First Covenant Church. Plus we're sure that there are probably other local churches as well.

PLEASE have some of your church's members commit to our monthly meetings so that we can start to bring certain portions of this project to completion as soon as February or March. There is widespread interest in this project amongst local congregations, which we feel is God-given. A Non-profit Evangelic Outreach/Fellowship ministry in the Jamestown-area would fill a much needed "gap" in our area. Being a ministry and not-for-profit is the key to the success of this project. But as such we need Christians to become actively involved. "Many hands make light work" as the saying goes...

We're also toying with the idea of meeting with some of the churches who are interested (or have interested members) during the first three weeks of January. There are 3 to 6 of us who are willing to go to various local evangelic (salvation-based, "born again") churches to explain in person what we are desiring to accomplish (i.e., to garner support for our monthly organizational meetings). Let us know if you're interested in having us come to your church (click here).

The Christian Cafe Ministry held its second organizational meeting at Friendly's Restaurant on Sunday October 27th. In attendance was one new member, who brought to the group's attention a past attempt at doing this very thing. He was very generous in his suggestions and offered to help in various ways (he is a member of the Christ First United Methodist Church in Jamestown).

Much of the same information from the first meeting was reiterated, with the group expressing the desire to continue to meet monthly at Friendly's until the total number of people willing to help get this project off the ground reaches 20 individuals (currently we are at 12, but only a handful attended the last meeting - where was everyone?).

This brings the total number of churches with members expressing interest to four (members from: Bethel Baptist Church, Fluvanna Community Church, Zion Covenant Church, Christ First United Methodist Church). We have met with various pastors and Christian Organization Leaders, yet we are not consistently hearing back from them (thus the list above shows only 4 churches). We ask, and pray, that all those interested PLEASE attend the next meeting on Sunday November 24th at 8pm at Friendly's Restaurant. We need to garner a consistent group before we can initiate the beginning steps necessary.

Please contact us if you are interested in becoming involved, let us know how to contact you. Please view this website for updates (like this one), and let us know your intent to be at the next meeting! Email: or call 789-5330 or 664-7959 (please mention the Christian Cafe when calling).

The Christian Cafe Ministry held its first organizational meeting at Friendly's Restaurant on Sunday September 29th. In attendance were eight people, with four others unable to attend. The group is now up to 12 people seeking to be involved. We'd love to raise that number to 30 people by our next meeting (see details below).

Following the advice given at the first meeting, and the same advice from Family Life Network (FLN.org), Colin Chase met with the Pastor's Prayer Team at Hillcrest Baptist Church on Tuesday October 1st. In attendance were 9 local Pastor's and ministry leaders. These local evangelic church representatives were extremely interested in the Christian Cafe concept (click here to view foundational concepts). They committed to informing their various churches regarding our next meeting. As well, other ideas were brought forth and will be pursued (to be discussed at the next meeting).

Local Christian Businesses are being sought for aid and input, and a list is being created of such businesses to contact. We'd like representatives from these businesses to be at the next meeting as well - therefore we need help in contacting them all. Please let us know if you know of any individuals or businesses we should contact (or pass this link to them so they can see for themselves).

FLN's Salsa Singles website has linked to our site as a means of promotion. We greatly appreciate the help of Jim Carl for this. (Salsa Website - click here) Roger Settje (the FLN Public Relations guru) also made various wonderful suggestions, for which we are greatly thankful.

A tentative location has been mentioned by Jeremy Knapp, with Colin viewing the locale as well. We will be looking into this possibility more as we progress.

Please join us for our next organizational meeting at Friendly’s Restaurant on Sunday October 27th at 8pm. Please let us know of your intent to attend, as Friendly's needs to know how many to plan for (for staffing needs). Email to:

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