The Sanctuary Shop webpage is still under construction and will be here very soon. Below is information about the Sanctuary Shop located at 201 Waymouth Street in the Adelaide CBD, SA:
Sanctuary Baptist Church has just opened a "Sanctuary Shop" where we are selling surfboards, snowboards and beach volleyball items. The shop is still being stocked and it has space at the back for a meeting place (ie. lounge chairs, tables, beanbags, large screen TV, wall projector, tea/coffee/drinks/food, books, chill-out stuff, etc) so that we can invite people back there during the outreach sessions we do every night. The Adelaide CBD is a very popular place for people to go and so there are lots of people to witness to. Hopefully, we will get some people to come and chat about God in our shop - this includes using the wall projector to run cinema-style Christian movies.
Plus we will hold our weekly Thursday Night Bible Study meeting there and our weekly Karaoke Night (see karaoke page) where we sing hymns in a cafe lounge setting (ie. low lighting and round tables dotted around the place for people to sit at) and we invite people from off the street to join in singing hymns. Another advantage is that it is directly opposite a very popular Christian bookstore called "Koorong" and hopefully lots of people will come over to "check us out". The shop will be a pick-up and drop-off spot for both the surfing trips (see surfing page), camping trips and for our Sunday morning church service seeing as we have three church buses available. Apart from the people we arrange to meet for these trips, there are backpacker hostels nearby and we might get backpackers to "kill some time" by going with us surfing, playing beach volleyball (see beach volleyball page), or most importantly, attending church meetings in the cafe lounge. Our buses have DVD screens in them to play Bible movies during transit.
We also have a church volleyball team that plays in a beach volleyball competition on the Glenelg beach every Monday night at 6pm and we wear "Sanctuary" singlets to promote our church. After the game, we hand out Gospel tracts along Jetty Road. We believe that with the interest we are getting in the Sanctuary Shop, we could easily have the shop open from 9am up until 11pm, Monday to Saturday (....with outreach through-out the week and on Sunday arvo till late each night). There is also an international "world-pro" beach volleyball tournament being held at Glenelg in Feb, 2008. This means lots of outreach potential and lots of people to meet. Also, we will have 6-7 trips to the snow next winter to go snowboarding (see snow page).
So.....we would appreciate your support and prayers for this ministry.
