U2, coffee and dialogue meetings

During the week from Sunday 29th of April to Sunday 6th of May the Cathedral is getting a group from Moore College in to help us with a mission we will be running for the week. They will be helping us to think about our mission to the city and we will be helping them by giving them the opportunity to get some experience in our unique location. Can you give some thought to the following?

Coffee
There will be a coffee stall which will distribute free coffee and donuts and be a place where people can stop and chat about Christianity. This will run for most of the week during the day and may be something you might be interested in serving at, either in the coffee area, the chatting area, or in listening in on a college student having a conversation with a visitor (in a non-weird, non-stalking type of way).

U2
There has been some thought (mostly just in my head) of running a U2: fans, faith and food night on the Wednesday night. We could have a couple of people singing and playing covers at various points during the night, a big screen concert dvd playing on the data projector, banks of laptops on desks with ear phones playing interviews and other U2 gigs, a fans corner where people (like my friend Andy Nobbs who has a photo of him playing guitar with U2 at a concert) display their connection with U2, and a talk at some point during the night that covers some of their beliefs and why their interest in Jesus is something you might want to consider…We'd need to get some graphicy people to make a leaflet that was good enough to distribute on George St and really try to pull in a crowd.

What do you think? Is U2 a band that appeals to people or am I out of date in my love for them? Do they appeal to a broad enough group of people? Could we pull it off? Would we be keen enough to make it work?

Dialogue Meetings
These are meetings that bibles studies can hold where everyone brings a friend and one of the college students comes, talks about Christianity for 5 minutes and then answers questions for the rest of the time. Another option, that seems to work even better, is that one person from a Bible study invites their friends from a specific friendship group (eg. old school friends, work colleagues, etc.) and you get one college student in and then run the same deal. It works a little better than the other way because your friends are in the majority and there are only 2 Christians there so they feel they can ask all the questions they've wanted to but never been able to.

I've listed 3 different events/activities they'll be involved in and I'd love it if you could give some feedback on each of them...