Join Erie Meta Cafe on Facebook

If you have a facebook account and you’d like to stay up on everything that’s happening at Meta Cafe, join our facebook group here!  You can talk to people you’ve met at the cafe and discuss what you’d like to see happen at future events. 

Stay connected online, and then we’ll see you the first Friday of every month!

 

Meta Cafe is Back Next Friday, June 6th

I can’t believe how fast this month has flown by already!  We’re quickly approaching the first Friday in June, and that means that Meta Cafe will be open from 8:00 pm to midnight that night. 

If you’ve been to Meta Cafe before, then you already know what we have planned for you.  But if you’ve never been, here’s what you can expect:

• Our cafe will be open serving premium coffees and desserts
• You are also welcome to bring your laptop and surf the web or blog via our free wi-fi connection
• We’ll be playing Wii Sports and various other Wii games on one of our 42″ Plasmas in the lobby
• Our other TV will be open all night with our crowd favorite–Rock Band.  We’ve got a few new songs downloaded every month, so make sure you check the playlist!
• Our gym will have the volleyball net set up in case you’d prefer a more active Friday night
• We’ll also be running 4v4 Halo 3 on two 60″ TV’s in the main auditorium–Bring a team or join a pick up group!

There’s always plenty to do, so spend your Friday night out at Meta Cafe.

 

Meta Cafe Relaunches

Well…it’s been too long friends, but I’m pleased to announce that Meta Cafe will be relaunching as a monthly event starting Friday May 2nd. 

Starting next month we’ll be hosting Meta Cafe every 1st Friday of the month, from 8 p.m. to midnight.  The night is designed to give you a place to connect and meet new people in the Erie area in a fun, social space. 

You can make the night as involved or laid back as you like–grab a latte at our coffee bar and surf the web on your laptop via our free wireless internet hotspot.  If you’re feeling a little more sociable, you can grab a table and play some games with friends (or strangers even!), pick up the drum sticks and jam on Rock Band, or try a game of Wii Tennis on our two 42″ Plasma TVs.  In addition, we’ll be hosting Volleyball freeplay in our gym, and LAN Halo 3 games in multiple rooms throughout the building. 

So mark the date–May 2nd and bring a friend! The first Friday of the month just got a whole lot more interesting. 

Check out the photos from our last Meta Cafe event.

Looking for directions to Meta Cafe?  Start here.

 

 

Thanks For Coming to Meta Cafe

Hey, Thanks to all of you who came out last Friday night.  Our open house was a great success because of you.  I met so many new people and saw some new connections being made this weekend, which is very cool. 

Remember, the cafe can be used for internet access from 9-5, Monday to Friday, and if you’d like to set up a study group or meeting there, simply call the church office and request a date and time from Annie and we’ll have a team member come and open up the building for you. 

Stay tuned right here for more information on when the next Meta Cafe event will be held–but in the mean time, here are some pics from last Friday’s get together.

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Blog Highlight Event

Welcome!  We’re running a special live blogging event tonight at Meta Cafe, and you have a chance to win a great bag of goodies including one of two iTunes gift cards we’re giving away if you participate. 

We’ve taken a look around at some of the blogs on our blog roll and highlighted three entries for you to read (remember, if you’d like your blog on Meta Cafe’s blogroll, simply email blusky@grace-erie.org with your name and url).  All you have to do is read the posts and vote on your favorite!  On the table in front of you is a card.  Fill out your name, your email, and the blog post that you found the most interesting, and place it in the basket marked “Blog Highlight Event”. 

At the end of Meta Cafe, we’ll count up the votes and then randomly select a winner from among those who voted for the most popular blog.  So get reading, and then cast your vote!

Our three blog posts for this month are as follows:

1. The Weekend Gamer–Brian highlights why exactly it is that he plays games, and asks the question, why do you play video games?
2. Losing My Religion–Jason talks him and his wife becoming pregnant with their fourth child, and having faith in God through their experience.
3. Danielle’s Xanga–Danielle shares about life in a cubicle, and gives some helpful tips she found about how to deal with being “a cubey”.

 

Blog Scavenger Hunt

Just in case you still think there’s nothing to do at Meta Cafe (and if that’s what you’re really thinking…um…have you looked around? ), we’ve put together a little live blogging event for you to sink your teeth in.  It’s our blog scavenger hunt, and it may end up winning you some cool stuff, including a 25$ iTunes gift card!

Here’s what you need to do.  We’ll ask you five questions below–the answers to said questions can be found by looking on the blogs in the Meta Cafe Blogroll.  All the posts from which the answers come have been posted sometime between November 1st and today, so you won’t have to search too far back. 

In front of you on the tables you’ll find cards with room for the answers to the five questions.  Write in your solutions as well as your name and email, and then drop it into the basket that’s marked “Blog Scavenger Hunt” in the cafe.  At 11 p.m., we’ll randomly select a winner out of all the entries we receive that have all five questions answered correctly.

That person will receive a gift bag including an iTunes gift card.  Here are the questions:

1. Grace Pastors–which baseball great did Mike identify with as he oversaw Grace’s Thanksgiving outreach to feed 700 families in the Erie community?
2. Jushaf2fly’s Xanga–what do big fluffy snowflakes make Dave want to do?
3. the Pure Interest–on the traditional road trip to Maryland, what does Brian always ask for when they pull into a gas station?
4. the Weekend Gamer–What song is Brian stuck on in Rock Band?
5. Aaron Lundberg’s Xanga–of his almost 30 years on this earth, how many of them has Aaron spent attending Grace Church?

Remember, get those answers in before 11 p.m., when we’ll draw out one winner from all eligible entries!