Here’s how.  Take a few missions-minded, Bible-believing, Jesus-honoring Christians from four churches who have a knack for thinking outside of the box – and we hope a strong leading from the Holy Spirit – and you get the beginnings of an idea for a Christ-centered coffee shop whose priorities consist of proclaiming his name to the nations, providing an excellent product and service to the community while establishing a presence in that community that speaks truth, love and fellowship, and giving back to the communities in which its people serve.  In fact, the coffee served by this coffee shop will come directly from places like Indonesia where core team members are already actively engaged in making disciples for Christ.

Coffee With a Cause will be a fully-functioning coffee shop set to open in late September or early October of this year.  This coffee shop will serve as the base of operations for Lakeside Community Church, a church plant of Pillar Church of Dumfries, VA, and will seek to raise funds and awareness for church planting and missions efforts in which it is engaged both locally and globally.

OK – now you have some of the details; perhaps you’ve even visited the sites bookmarked above and discovered more useful information about this unique marketplace ministry opportunity.  How can you get involved?  Well, Coffee With a Cause is an ambitious idea and it has an ambitious goal.  That goal is to open its doors in the fall of this year with zero debt.  The target for this goal is to raise $25,000 to purchase equipment, execute a buildout at the designated business site, purchase permits, etc, all in the hopes that Coffee With a Cause can hit the ground running concentrating on its core priorities I mentioned above.

This is where you come in.  During the month of July, our team has been running a fundraising effort called “The Lakeside 100“.  This is an effort to have 100 families or teams of families partner with us by donating $250 each toward this cause.  To date, we’ve raised about 35% of the funds needed to make this plan a reality.  Our church family, and extended church families, have contributed significantly to this cause and now I’m asking you to support the project as well.  We’d like to achieve our goal by July 31st so you can see we have some work cut out for us – thankfully, the work is not completely on our shoulders and we trust that God will provide in his timing and according to his will.  And right now, you are the key to ensuring the success of this initiative.  Just like God uses us as his mouthpiece in proclaiming the name of Christ throughout the world, he asks of us our time, talent and resources that we might be concerned for his kingdom more than our comfort.  Can you make such a sacrifice?

Lastly, the Coffee With a Cause team asks for your prayers.  We can do nothing apart from God and we seek to remain dedicated to the driving priorities that the team has developed – the most important of which is the proclamation of Christ’s name throughout all the Earth that the phrase “Let the nations be glad!”  be a prayer that is answered by the joy of the good news received by regenerated hearts.