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# Church incorporates culture and cross
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/20051125church-incorporates-culture-and-cross-html/
- Published: 2005-11-25T15:10:37.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:34:03.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Church, Emerging Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

An article in [ChristianWeek](http://www.christianweek.org/stories/vol19/no18/story3.html?ref=dashhouse.com) written about [FRWY.ca](http://www.frwy.ca/?ref=dashhouse.com):

> HAMILTON, ON—An emerging church community of the Salvation Army opened its new building in downtown Hamilton on October 30\. But it is not your average church space.

> [FRWY.ca](http://www.frwy.ca/?ref=dashhouse.com) (pronounced “freeway”) Café is a 7,000-square-foot converted bank building. The non-profit café is designed to offer coffee, culture and community.

> “When we planted a church, the original idea was to start by building a community and then develop a café,” explains Pernell Goodyear, pastor and ethos-shaper. “We wanted to create a place that is neutral ground, public space. We asked what it would take to create a place that is normal, that would reach people in our culture.”

[more](http://www.christianweek.org/stories/vol19/no18/story3.html?ref=dashhouse.com)

I don’t know, it really seems that whoever wrote that story has a good eye for news, or at least good taste in friends.

I love what they’re doing. [FRWY.ca](http://www.frwy.ca/?ref=dashhouse.com) gets a mention in [*The Great Giveaway*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080106483X/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com), which I’m currently reading, and it also sounds like it’s possibly in line with [*Organic Church*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078798129X/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com), which I’m trying to get. Exciting to see some churches trying to create a [third place](http://www.frwy.ca/third%5Fplace.html?ref=dashhouse.com), avoiding the problem of ever getting stuck behind the church building’s walls.