Thursday, 18 July, 2013  A waterfront café in Ipswich has become
home to a community of people keen to develop faith and
friendship. One of LINK's organisers, Roger Eyre, explains more.
I wasn't around at the beginning - about four years ago - but
LINK founders Dan Jolley and Scott Huntly had a vision to do
some sort of cafe project. They wanted to reach out into the
community and be very relationship and community focused,
providing a place where non-Christians would feel very welcome.
I got involved when Heart for Ipswich contacted me. This group
aims to link Christians from many different churches to work
together more closely to help meet the social and spiritual
needs of the people of Ipswich. It is run on a voluntary basis
by a small team of lay people. Heart For Ipswich got in touch to
tell me about this new café project idea. My vision had been
about putting music into cafés and using it as a way of
outreach. In spite of living in the same town, I didn't know the
other guys at all so it was importan