Mission Statement:

WonderCafe2 is a home for open-minded discussion and exploration of spiritual topics, moral issues and life's big questions.  It is designed to reflect key qualities and values of the original site Wondercafe (www.wondercafe.ca).

Who Are We?

WonderCafe2 is an independent community that formed out of the active participants of the United Church of Canada’s Wondercafe forum (www.wondercafe.ca).

Wondercafe was a daring effort by The United Church of Canada to reach out to Canadians who may not attend church and give them a way of discussing faith issues in new and exciting ways. WonderCafe wasn't selling the denomination. It was creating a new forum for Canadians to talk about spirituality and faith. Active participants came from a variety of backgrounds and faith communities beyond the United Church. There was an international component as participants joined in from Australia and the United States.

While many of the Wondercafe2 community come from “organized religion,” it’s not our intention to “recruit” you. We want to build a relationship with you on your terms and there is no pressure to walk through any organization’s doors. We are offering you a place to explore your faith, God, and life issues.

This place should be relevant to you, a place to call your own. It is a place where you can freely express yourself and explore the ideas that excite you and the concerns that weigh upon you. You will find that it also reflects key qualities and values including open-mindedness, respect, and freedom of expression.

Through our online community, we welcome anyone to join us at the table.

Final note: Let's keep discussion in this thread to a minimum other than bumps to keep it in Recent.

Mendalla

bumpity, bump, bump.  I

Voted....

Voted.

Voted. Thanks.

Thank you, I have voted.

Thanks I have voted

Thanks for all the hard work gang!  VOTED!

Voted! Thanks from me as well!

Deadline is Thursday April 7th to vote?

hmm, checking with Mendalla.

Probably means Thursday April 17.

Thanks for all your hard work. I have voted. 

You're probably right.

Voted and thankyou to Mendalla, Chansen and Pinga.

(sorry for the edits, I keep messing up Mendallas name because of a former band from the 60's era that I listened to called Mandala)

Voted and Thx.

Voted and more thanks!

I get it mixed up with Mandela with an extra "l".

That was easy!  Voted.

I did the survey. Does that mean I voted?

It does!

April 10th

My big oops. I meant it to end this Thursday but somehow got it in my head as the 17th (ie. Thursday next week) and then lost the "1". Apparently, my father isn't the only member of the family with dementia.

If Aaron is reading and can edit the OP, please fix.

Mendalla

Voted.

It is done.

Voted.

And a great big "thank you!" to Pinga, chansen, and Mendalla.

*bump*

Don't forget to vote! About a day and a half left!

Don't you mean a week and a half?

Northwind, Mendalla meant for that opening date to be Thursday, April 10th.

Edit: This is operator error in the midst of busy-ness.  I am sure by the time we get this done we will have the mechanics down pat!)

Edit2:  I have caught the edit bug!  fixed busy-ness, i had written business

bump

bump.

Morning bump.

Vote total is almost that of the name vote. I would love to see us beat that number. Get out there and vote if you have not!

Mendalla

Anybody campaigning for votes in the less active archives?

Another thought is there anyway on this site to link every member that has ever posted or visited to this site and send out an invitiation to join us on the new site?

I haven't. You mean post links to here in Global Issues, Popular Culture, etc.? Good thought, waterfall.

Mendalla

Actually I was wondering more if there was a way to link everyone from the membership roster to send out an invitation to the new site. One swoop.

Nice idea. We'd likely need the UCCan's help. Pinga is our liason to them so I'll see if it's something that can be done. We need to be careful around privacy and spam laws.

Mendalla

I also think you should post the voting in the R and F sections so people like unsafe, airclean, etc.... will see. Some just hang out in only one area.

This is a great initiative and I understand the need to show that WC2 is evolving from WC.  Still, I think it deserves its own identity.  "Ponder Cafe" may be too passive, but I think you can see where I'm headed.

Bill

Hi, Bill. Thanks for joining in. We are actually past the stage of discussing the name. That discussion happened a couple weeks ago and Wondercafe2 passed overwhelmingly (there are threads on this in Social). The domain is already registered. We are now working on the next level, of deciding on a mission statement and other basic statements about the site while our technical team looks at the software side of things. Hope to have more contributions from you as we move forward with this.

Mendalla

I'm partial to "LaunderCafe", where members admit to shameful things from their past and air their dirty laundry.

And yep, we're on it over in the technical department. We have the server, a case of beer, and a screwdriver. We've boldly decided on going with forum software that works. Once we get power hooked up to this shack...er...datacentre, we're golden.

Sorry...I'm hijacking. In my defense, it was fun.

I voted. But I already posted that. No, I did not vote twice. Not even in a drunken stupor.

Hi chansen,

Voting twice is a bad thing?

I thought it was just making my vote more emphatic?

Like when Jesus said, "Truly, truly . . . ." when only one "truly" is really necessary.

Or like ALL CAPS means I'm yelling and doesn't require an exclamation mark.

Hmmmmm.

Learn something new everyday.

Grace and peace to you.

John

I expect your beard probably got up in the night and tried to vote.

Hi chansen,

Probably.

That's when it likes to scrounge around in the kitchen for crumbs and such.

Grace and peace to you.

John

much nicer to read than "bump"

Less than a day left! Get in there in and vote. Ignore the hairs in the polling booth. John's beard was shedding.

Mendalla

voted!

Noon tomorrow and then it's over!

Have your say by voting just like carolla did!

Tell'em the ape sent you.