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Seeds Coffee Company. Est. 2012.<br />
Utilizing coffee culture to cultivating community.<br />
From our direct sourcing to our customer relationships<br />
we refuse to compromise standards for profit.<br />
The Hub. Est. 2016.<br />
A collabrative co-working space.<br />
Created to inspire community & relationship within<br />
a culture of business & development.<br />
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d.<br />
e.<br />
Tabitha’s Hands. Est. in 2014.<br />
A professional cleaning company, existing as an avenue<br />
to walk in greater intentionality with the women of our<br />
communities, while providing money for their families.<br />
A4One. Est. in 2015.<br />
Using coaching & athletics to reach marginalized<br />
communities of youth within Birmingham, AL & the<br />
country of Brazil.<br />
Sachai Tea Company. Est. in 2014.<br />
Leveraging tea as an avenue to bridge the gap of<br />
cultures & investing intentionally in the lives &<br />
communities of India.<br />
f.<br />
Purpose Place Thrift Market. Est. in 2016.<br />
Creating jobs & working opportunities of value &<br />
equality for people diagnosed with special needs.<br />
g.<br />
Taproot Landscaping. Est. in 2013.<br />
Using landscaping as a means to instill dignity within<br />
the lives of those soceity has deemed unworthy.<br />
h.<br />
The Donut Company. Est. 2014<br />
Working directly out of Leticia, Colombia.<br />
Using business to create refuge for the lost.
MINISTRY OF RECONCILATION<br />
This is a place where children grow up seeing their fathers murdered;<br />
their mothers strung out on drugs; their siblings thrown in jail…<br />
A place where friends sell drugs to eat;<br />
where sex is simply seen as a vacation from circumstance;<br />
where drugs & violence nullify any glimmer of hope that may still remain.<br />
Damned to this seemingly inescapable bondage,<br />
God has brought us here so that maybe even<br />
one would come to know His FREEDOM.<br />
OUR LIVES TODAY<br />
Summer Camp (Reclaim)<br />
Reclaim is a summer camp that we do at the local community center. This camp<br />
is dependent upon outside funding and has been extremely instrumental in us<br />
building lasting relationships with families as well as having avenues to teach the<br />
good news of Jesus and His kingdom to these amazing kids.<br />
Sunday’s at Memorial<br />
4 years ago we began going to Memorial Park in Titusville on Sunday afternoons<br />
to play sports with the kids in the neighborhood. Now, each week after we play,<br />
we invite everyone we can to one of our intentional homes in the neighborhood<br />
to cookout and have a big meal together.<br />
Our Homes<br />
15 of us have moved into 3 houses that we feel are strategically placed for the<br />
needs of the neighborhood around us. We literally embrace & feed & clothe the<br />
poor & we pour ourselves out that they might just find the Hope.<br />
FUTURE PROJECT<br />
Leonard’s Pizzaria<br />
Leonard’s Pizzaria will be a refuge. It’s a place where kids can come after school<br />
to play in the arcade, bowl with friends or have a meal as a family. A place where<br />
they’ll be surrounded with people committed to investing in their souls & fighting<br />
for them to see & know the hope of Jesus. We feel few other works compare in<br />
their importance to the existence of this space!<br />
The estimated need: $250K<br />
TITUSVILLE<br />
‘AS YOU DID IT TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, YOU DID IT TO ME.’
Knoxville, TN<br />
A group of men & women commited to the<br />
legal guardianship of 4 younger girls from<br />
the inner-city ghetto of Knoxville. Letting<br />
their lives & devotion be that which<br />
teaches others of the heart of God.<br />
Loas<br />
Mookie (american) & Ahn (a Loa man) live<br />
a life devoted to instilling value & dignity<br />
in the men, women & youth of this broken<br />
culture. They share & worship Christ,<br />
though it is illegal & they work to grow high<br />
quaility coffee so that they can bring greater<br />
value to their village & country.<br />
Amazonas<br />
A multifacited network exists here;<br />
much like in Birmingham. Everything from<br />
a home for kids that live on the streets, to a<br />
school for the indigenous of the Amazon<br />
Jungle, to a donut shop in the city of Leticia.<br />
Indonesia<br />
A group from our Birmingham community<br />
intends to move into the coffee region of<br />
Sumatra & commit themselves to working<br />
with the farmers, living in the community &<br />
sharing the hope that is in Christ. We are<br />
currently taking multiple extended<br />
trips a year to work there.<br />
Birmingham, AL<br />
We have responded to the needs we see.<br />
We have devoted ourselves to one another<br />
& to the poorest communities within our city.<br />
Unity & Christ are our food & we build tirelessly<br />
because in this we find our rest.
PROJECT & SUPPORT NEEDS<br />
Knoxville, TN<br />
Daily needs for both foster care<br />
homes.<br />
The estimated need: $5K<br />
Loas<br />
Purchasing a coffee processing &<br />
storage space where they can<br />
clean & ship their coffee.<br />
The estimated need: $5K<br />
Amazonas<br />
Add an additional room on to<br />
Hosa’s house (One of the ladies<br />
who runs the orphanage).<br />
The estimated need: $1K<br />
Birmingham, AL<br />
Purchasing & restoring an<br />
inner-city restaurant (Leonard’s<br />
Pizzaria) to create a refuge for the<br />
youth & their families.<br />
The estimated need: $250K<br />
Knoxville, TN<br />
Salary support for the director of<br />
foster homes.<br />
The estimated need: $10K<br />
Amazonas<br />
Funding for our Indigenous leaders<br />
who are planting churches<br />
throughout the Javari Valley<br />
The estimated need: $12K<br />
Birmingham, AL<br />
Support for the operational needs<br />
of our network headquarters.<br />
The estimated need: $15K<br />
Indonesia<br />
Plane tickets & travel support.<br />
Lodging & transportation durring<br />
this years visit & 3 month trip that<br />
the team plans to take next year.<br />
The estimated need: $10K<br />
NETWORK
ALL WE ASK<br />
You see the work of our hands. You hear the cries of the needy.<br />
We are those who have leveraged our lives for them.<br />
Now we come to you asking that you would partner with us;<br />
Either beside us in the dirt of this work<br />
or by your giving of what you have<br />
that what we do may continue!<br />
If you see our lives & our labor<br />
& you believe in what we’ve<br />
committed ourselves to, then<br />
we want to ask you<br />
for your help.<br />
We are workers in a field<br />
Planting & watering<br />
in obediance to our Father<br />
That when the King returns<br />
we may be found as those who<br />
gave up everything<br />
to follow Him.
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