Impact Cafe

Hello! Gwen Barlow here with news of last Sunday evening’s Impact Café which was just great! The team transformed the church sanctuary into the usual relaxed Impact Café style atmosphere. Our usual team of young (and some very young) helpers set about offering high quality waiter/waitress service to add to the “Starbucks style” evening. Background music courtesy of Scott and Heather’s band started about 6.20pm and gave time for people to relax and enjoy the refreshments including the now famous Impact Café “hot chocolate with everything”. Folks simply chatted.. I was in the kitchen but I could certainly here a lot of chat going on!


Chris Watt then got onto the theme of the evening with a quiz type competition and some multimedia which really aimed to knock the ‘stuffing’ out of the Easter bunny story! I even think that even Easter eggs came in for a good bashing as the team set about conveying the TRUE meaning of Easter with a vengeance that had to be seen to be believed! Of course, all done with the usual laughter over-laying that serious concern that we have for the Truth.


Scott McRoberts then stood up and gave a moving testimony and it was great to hear how the resurrection of Jesus, as told in the Gospels, has so inspired his life. The room was buzzing with young and old folk alike which, for me, makes Impact Café such a joy.


As one of the founders of this ‘event’, I have to say that it is good to see the vision being captured. The Gospel is meant to engage us and clearly the café style approach provides a warm and non-threatening environment where people are comfortable to ask questions and get answers. I just hope that more of our congregation will ask their friends along, especially those people who may not usually attend church but are spiritually seeking.

For more details on what Impact Café is all about, please take a look at the Impact Café section of the Hilton web-site.
Gwen