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Business, It’s just more fun…

Originaly Posted on July 6, 2008

Over the past couple of weeks I have been having this re-occuring thought about how business is more fun than my formor work in the church.
Here is what I find excitting/fun:
1. Creating Jobs: I still can not get over the thought that somehow creating a marketable good in the economy of Specialty Coffee, [...]

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Wanting the Best for People

Originaly Posted on March 18, 2008

I had a conversation with one of the people on our Sales Team.
This is an amazing person with a heart to serve others. He is caught in a place I have found myself in several times. A place where hard work is just not enough of a motivation to do everything in there [...]

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What is a Preacher

Originaly Posted on March 18, 2008

A preacher is one who communicates the gospel to people.
I have often found it hard to view the pastor as the soul preacher, even more now than before. Today we have all sorts of preaching but very little gospel revelation.
I have scene the gospel and I have experienced the Kingdom in the most unlikely [...]

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The Hardest Thing to Do is Try

Originaly Posted on March 12, 2008

For over a year now, I have been apart of One Village Coffee.
We are a group of people trying to help children through funding development in overlooked regions of the world.
We are a Coffee Roaster, providing sustainably certified coffee to the conscious customer.
We are an educator, storyteller and believer.
There is more to starting something than [...]

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What $1000 did for Bala

Originaly Posted on January 20, 2008

This is a letter sent from the director of NIFES, Bala Usman.
I am posting this because I want people to understand how much we have been given, and how much a little will do. This is a dear friend of our family and the reason we set off to start a coffee company, One [...]

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coffee salesmen as pastors

Originaly Posted on December 9, 2007

Almost every Friday for the past three months my partners and I have met with a business consultant about the direction and plan for One Village Coffee. Recently, we had time where we all confessed our position on the future.
“I have to admit when I first met all of you, I was not sure [...]

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