Third Space (s)
I made my last post from a church planting network meeting in the basement of Free Methodist mecca in Mississauga (Flickr photos are here). After the meeting we spent some time in Jared’s office where Dave Blondel spent some time reading the Free Methodist directory looking at pictures of other pastors with beards. His goal is to grow the longest beard in the Free Methodist Church and he wanted to see what the competition is. There are some competitors but Dave can hold things in his beard right now which is a start.
After the meeting and a gross Vietnamese soup at a diner (like spicy soup but some big pork bones covered in fat in it along with some disgusting tofu or soy product), I headed back to Peterborough with Dave and spent the night at Dave and Mel’s place.
Sunday morning I attended Dave and Chris Vinn’s church plant called Third Space. I will post some pictures later today on Flickr (updated: here they are). I really appreciated the time of worship and community. The cool thing for me who gets kind of tired of singing the same old stuff all of the time is that there was no singing or music. Some sharing, a short sermon, coffee, kids make cookies. They also had a great idea called a mix tape club where people in the church made mix CD’s and added them to the library to help other people find, like, and support new music. It was all excellent. Dave was saying earlier that Third Space isn’t on anyone’s radar but it really should be. If I was in Peterborough, I would love to worship more with the Third Space.
After a really good lunch, we got ensnarled in traffic on the 401 and were a little late to the Frwy.ca where I was speaking in Hamilton. When I was out in the spring, the cafe wasn’t close to being done but it looks great. It is a former CIBC bank that has been converted into a cafe and also a place of worship on Sunday night. The food was tremendous, coffee was fair trade, and Pernell aluded to the fact that him and I may be internet lovers in his introduction of me. The Frwy.ca is another kind of third space, as in the concept identified by the book, The Good Great Place by Ray Oldenburg where people can hang out, use wifi, drink coffee, and do cool stuff. During the mornings, the Frwy.ca offers a free babysitting service to young mothers downstairs and gives them a break and serves coffee upstairs. Nice. Some Flickr photos are here.
Two amazing interpretations of a pretty cool third space idea. Two great congregations.
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One Response to “Third Space (s)”
Posted by: Matthew Francis - 11/29/2005
You crazy rebel Methodists! Haven’t you ever read Mr. Wesley’s 1749 tract “On the Duty and Responsibility of Being Clean-Shaven.”
Just kidding. Wesley would love it all.
Matthew Francis here. We met at the Beyond Forum back in ‘99. Good to see your site!
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