Thanks Tabari! I remember meeting you at GCUC during an intermission at Salvage. I now have to find a progressive? church who might be interested in a partnership.
On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 3:28:43 PM UTC-5, Tabari Brannon wrote: > > Hi Jennifer, > > I am a chaplain / and coworking space owner, so I am familiar with but > areas! > > > - I am not familiar with you first point, I have read about groups of > people leaving a coworking space and starting their own thing either > because the space closed or because a disagreement with the management. I > am not sure this is the type of seeding you are looking for. Some of the > other veteran space owners may be able to speak to thos. > - As to your second point, I was looking at the costs associated with > the church that I attend, and you are correct most of the space goes > unused > throughout the week. I don't see why a pastor would not let an > organization > use their facilities if they are respectful of others that are in the space > > > This is a coworking space / chuurc in New York. - http://stlydias.org/ > > Hope that helps! > > > > On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 1:04:46 PM UTC-7, Jennifer Kready wrote: >> >> As I don't have a space yet, so I host cowork mornings at coffee shops my >> community. This morning we were talking about coworking and two of us were >> pastors. The pastors were seeding a church and coworking offers them a >> place to meet, but they were also interested in hosting coworking for their >> parishoners and general public within the church. The pastors helped us >> understand how a church seeds future churches, from within the sponsorship >> church walls. So I wonder... >> >> - Can an established cowork space 'seed' a future cowork space? >> >> - Can a cowork be seeded from a faith based entity? >> - As most of us know, church space is pretty empty during the day >> and the church knows they're spending a lot to maintain these unused >> spaces, too. Without the typical fear of 'our coworkers will be >> evangelized', is it possible to partner with a church (rental contract >> perhaps) to use their space to grow a community (outside the coffee >> shop) >> and move them to a cowork space? >> >> Jen >> > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
