Essentially what this site does is attempts to convince churches to group together and share spaces. 4 or 5 small churches would use the same location and alter their services from sunday morning to "off" times, such as weeknights, saturdays, or sunday evenings. Then, I give them free rent and charge for coffee. The coffee sales offset the costs for the space, the churches provide the customers, and small churches don't have to use the majority of their budgets devoted to real estate which is only used no more than 3 hours a week.

The motivation for doing this has everything to do with global poverty. Jeffrey Sacks has written a wonderful book entitled "The End of Poverty" which details the pervasiveness of the global pandemic of AIDS and extreme poverty (the kind that kills you, not the kind that keeps you from buying a fancy ipod). The amount of money needed to end global extreme poverty, he estimates, is $225 billion. Churches have $230 billion tied in real estate. The numbers are easy! We could afford to fix one of societies largest and most pervasive problems if we could simply give up the ritual of Sunday mornings and transition to a system of off hours and shared spaces.

Incidentally, this site also focuses on how the church can use rotating leadership, coordinated by web 2.0 tools like Wiki's, blogs, and custom social networks, to allow their pastors to not take salaries so that less funds are tied up in overhead and more can go to the mission of the church: to take care of the least, the last, and the lost (which if you are not involved in religious language, basically means society's forgotten members).

I'm going to open source the business plan using a creative commons license, (think of a franchise with no franchise fee or financial obligations). I am trying to establish one in Ft. Lauderdale that will be used as a model.