Coffee Beans

What an exciting week, and it's only Tuesday!!!

Thus far in the Nexus journey we have focused heavily on what it is going to take to open the doors, how we are going to serve Cleveland, the food we are going to offer (it's going to be great!)- but the last couple of days we have begun to really focus in on an area that has not been the center of attention for some time: our coffee beans.

From day 1 we had said that we wanted to not only make a difference in our own community but also be partnered with suppliers that are doing the same in theirs. In terms of coffee we wanted to have beans that were excellent in flavor- but even more excellent in their redemptive qualities in terms of what that business is doing to serve the people of the region.

This week we have decided we are going to take a proactive role in finding those growers- and the results from only a few days has been overwhelming. We are hearing of a church in the middle of Istanbul Turkey that began from the migrant workers that are part of the coffee bean trade. One of my favorites has been Bolaven Farms that uses coffee beans to give hope to people, and reproduces that hope! My prayer is that we can be part of those types of works throughout the world. And where it may not be the case- where injustice still reigns- maybe, just maybe we can learn from our partners and bring justice and redemption there simply through love and growing coffee.

How cool will it be when Nexus is open that we send a team to one of our own partners to help with a work. To work along side of the same people that provided us our morning joe just a week before. How cool will it be when we realize we are all in it together?!?!

So keep us in prayer- this week has opened a whole new world of possibilities- and as with the rest of Nexus has a TON of planning and preparation that is needed to do it with excellence. As with all great works that God calls us to it is humbling, exciting, scary, and overwhelming all at once.