Church - but not as you know it!

Café Church @ Nero’s is a Fresh Expression of church which will offer ‘church’ within an environment that is safe and familiar to people who would not usually come into a church building for worship.

We will be offering the opportunity for people to address contemporary issues that impact on their daily lives and touch their innate spirituality in order to develop a greater sense of wellbeing and give meaning and purpose to their lives. Our approach will be informal and low key, but clearly Christian.  

Nero’s is already the focus of a “café culture” that brings in people from the shops and offices round about as well as shoppers.  Local clergy are also frequently to be found taking coffee there, and members of the public are used to encountering them there!  It is therefore an ideal venue for what is hoped will attract these same people.  The “café church” will be open at the end of the café’s normal working day, and therefore at the end of shop and office working times.   

We will meet on the first Wednesday of every month at Caffe Nero the coffee shop in the centre of Kidderminster in Weaver’s Wharf. People are encouraged to arrive from 5.30pm, gather together and enjoy their coffee. At 6pm when the café usually closes it will remain open and the theme for the evening will be introduced. The evening will continue with discussion, quizzes, audio visual presentations, reflection and lots of coffee drinking and will end at 7pm. 

This is an initiative of St Mary’s Church and Trinity Methodist Church in Kidderminster working together and fully supported by the staff of Nero’s and their head office. 

Minister of Trinity Mary Austin says: “For too long the Church has waited for people to come to us and do things the way we would like to do them.  Café Church is an opportunity to explore a whole new concept of Church with people where they are”.  Owain Bell, Rector of St Mary’s adds: “To coin a phrase, ‘this is Church, Jim, but not as you know it!’”

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