crusher7 writes: Several Wales churches and Christian leaders have figured out a new way to connect to young people–through pubs and nightclubs. “Pubs by definition are public space, they feel inhabitable and unpretentious, a quality that, unfortunately, is not shared by many churches,” the website for one church-in-a-pub called Bar None explains. Bar None, affiliated with an actual church in Cardiff, Wales, offers music, storytelling, and discussion group, and a newsletter called “The Tab.”
The national website of Wales reports that “the first chaplain for nightclubs” is about to begin work. Wendy Sanderson, 26, will lead a team of volunteers in Cardiff’s bars and nightclubs. “When you look at the influence of drugs and the hunger for the ultimate high, it kind of all links in,” she told the website.
One of the earliest churches in a pub was started by an evangelist In Swansea, Wales, in 1998. He began “Zac’s Place,” a weekly Christian meeting to “provide opportunity for expression of and enquiry into the Christian faith in a relaxed pub environment.”
September 30th, 2003 at 4:17 pm
Hmm, What Would Jesus Drink? I’m guessing nothing from Colorado…
September 30th, 2003 at 7:02 pm
Hehe. Dude, I’m going to manufacture WWJD bracelets. I think we could make a fortune selling them to the college crowd.
-jamin
October 1st, 2003 at 10:35 am
Better yet, sell WWJD bottle openers, corkscrews, and bar towels. You could also do a throwback Waldo-like T-shirt: Where’s Drunken Jesus? He’s the one in the robes with glowing halo behind his head as he pukes in the urinal, of course. Hmm, I heard a thundercloud coming…