When neighbours really take time to share in coffee and conversation, people learn more about each other. In a commercial Tim Hortons offered a challenge, setting up a small table in a driveway and asking neighbours if they would be willing to meet with their neighbour. Amid loneliness, isolation and underdeveloped social skills muscles, this commercial from Tim Hortons portrays people being invited to come have a coffee with a neighbour, were they willing to meet their next door neighbour? Could they get beyond the awkwardness? What would unfold?
Would you go if a neighbour invited you to meet on their driveway for a coffee? Show this commercial to your congregation and start a conversation on intentional invitation!
When you make a coffee, buy a coffee, who might you offer a second one to? Get beyond the awkward!
Start with simple invitation to share a coffee, outside, in a coffee shop, at an event, in a home? How can we go deeper in relationship building?
Communities of faith offering midweek social times are experiencing people coming for coffee and returning. Can you create a coffee challenge (or other refreshments) in your community of faith? Stretch comfort by getting to know someone better over a coffee. Who did you invite to coffee this week? Creatively find ways to track how many people got invited to coffee each week, and experience growth in those social muscles of comfort in inviting others. Put on the coffeepot, tea, hot chocolate, water and intentionally meet your neighbours!
