Hi Jennifer, I founded Epiphany Space in LA. We are a coworking space with a religious 501c3 but all are welcome. We share an office building in Hollywood with a church whose large meetings are in another location. The relationship has been great however being closely connected to a church can limits those who are interested/comfortable coming to the space. When we opened the space in 2013 we did not have the ability to acquire space of our own and the church allowed us to sublease from them. We also loved having the additional built in community and shared resources. Most of the church's congregation are Hollywood creatives. The church refers people to us but we have had to cultivate the community on our own.
If you'd like to talk more about your ideas or what we've done I'm happy to connect. BTW, I'm an ordained minister too. www epiphanyspace .com or melissa @ epiphanyspace .com 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.
