Confessions of *Failure and Success

Elijah, a man on a mission

The idea was simple:

1) Start with international relationships
2) Import coffee from their villages
3) Roast
4) Market
5) Sell

Problem
1) The coffee trees burned in Nigeria (our first country of origin)
2) No feesable way to import coffee from Hondorus (we missed the harvest)
3) Where next; Haiti, Guatamala, El Salvador, Mexico, Indonisia, Camoroon, Kenya?
4) Kenya, YES
5) Meet Elijah, sorry, Dr. Elijah Korich

After a chance meeting at Rice’s Market a week ago, Elijah shared his need for a roaster, to roast his beans he directly imported from growers in his local villages of Kenya.

He was someone we were not looking for, however, in the middle of a field in Bucks County at a flee market in 90 degree weather we discussed the possibility of a partnership from grower to consumer.

And on Friday June 22nd, we roasted 55lb’s of Kenyan AA right from the source.

In the middle of the session as Elijah shared the story of learning to write under the tree in his village with his finger in the dirt, where he now plans to build the first school. For the past five years Elijah has been building wells, and now he has found some friends who want to help.

He called us, “an answer to pray…” He said that “God is going to use us mighly…”

During his story about coming to faith as a sheperd who met his first Dr. when he came to America at the age of thirty, I started to tear up. I was filled with emotion as he shared about his family and his children who attend elite schools in the states.

Here before us sits a man at a modest hight of 5.4 ft, and maybe 135lbs, telling three guys about his mission to Kenya and how we are an answer.

You figure it out…

if you want to read more about Elijah, check out
http://www.ksmministries.com/

And if you want to drink his coffee visit
www.onevillagecoffee.com