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WENDY DAHLE - Special to the Herald
Jump to full article: Bradenton (FL) Herald, 2009-11-07
Author: WENDY DAHLE
Intro: For those who find traditional church a little stifling, Sunday morning services at Cork's Cigar Bar at 425 Old Main St. in downtown Bradenton could be just the place to get a good shot of Christianity.
It's called the Church of the Faithful Few, and when the preaching is over, attendees can hang around and enjoy a cold one and a smoke, no questions asked.
"We do things a little different here," said Jim "Cork" Miller, co-owner of Cork's. "We're not judgmental."
Church of the Faithful Few was started by the Rev. John Rogers, the father of an acquaintance of Miller's.
Rogers got the idea for Church of the Faithful Few after a near-fatal motorcycle accident in New Hampshire. At the time, Rogers was with the International Evangelists for Heaven's Saints, a motorcycle ministry started by former Hell's Angel Charles "Barry" Mayson.
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