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The Cafe Church, a Christian church model that can be associated with alternative worship and the emerging church movements, seeks to find new forms and approaches to existing as a church in the 21st century. These churches are often focused on relationship aspects of Christian fellowship and outreach to their local community, and use the modern gathering place, a café, in their ministry. ==Cafe Church philosophy and planting churches== The cafe church can be viewed as an organically based philosophy for planting churches, centered around the idea of making the message of Christ's love relevant to the needs of the local community that the church seeks to serve. The ''Alma Mount Hope Coffeehouse Church'', of Alma, MI, says:
The goal of cafe church endeavors is to impact their local community with a message of God's love and the transforming power of Christ's love. Depending on the leadership, some cafe church leaders will provide a clear doctrinal perspective, while others may be more open-minded and comfortable with members and visitors asking questions of speakers. For example, ''One World Coffeehouse'' in Columbia, Maryland was founded by a church member who said, "I felt that our church needed an outreach effort ... and a way to express principles such as multiculturalism and acceptance of others different from yourself."〔 And the ''Glebe Café Church,'' in New South Wales, Australia states that:
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