We operate on "Mexico" time
Which is actually a more profound principle than might first seem to be the case.
While on a youth missions trip to Mexico many years ago, several of the sol cafe founders discovered, among many other surprising things, that there's more than one way to "do church." In fact, the Alliance Church in Monterey, Mexico, though a member of the same Christian denomination, ran things in a way that would have completely freaked out many of the churchgoers back home. A small thing, for example, was that church services didn't start at a precisely scheduled time, and in fact any stated time for church to start seemed only useful for identifying the one time people would likely not actually be arriving for church. People wandered in before the appointed time, people wandered in after the appointed time, yet no one was ever "early" or "late".
In other words, we discovered that we didn't necessarily need -- or want -- "church" to be something you boxed into a building or a block of time. That what was important was your presence, not your punctuality. And that how or when we do church was not nearly so important as why.
So we operate on "Mexico" time.
While on a youth missions trip to Mexico many years ago, several of the sol cafe founders discovered, among many other surprising things, that there's more than one way to "do church." In fact, the Alliance Church in Monterey, Mexico, though a member of the same Christian denomination, ran things in a way that would have completely freaked out many of the churchgoers back home. A small thing, for example, was that church services didn't start at a precisely scheduled time, and in fact any stated time for church to start seemed only useful for identifying the one time people would likely not actually be arriving for church. People wandered in before the appointed time, people wandered in after the appointed time, yet no one was ever "early" or "late".
In other words, we discovered that we didn't necessarily need -- or want -- "church" to be something you boxed into a building or a block of time. That what was important was your presence, not your punctuality. And that how or when we do church was not nearly so important as why.
So we operate on "Mexico" time.
contributed by the sol cafe webguy
It probably wasn't planned this way, but by having the "official" start time flexible has given us the ability to just be togethor when we meet. We come in, greet each other and hang out.
I go to be a part of my church community as that is one way how I experience Christ, time will march on with and without us. Time is a constant force we have no control over, the relationships we build are what we can impact.
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