Facebook | Just Love Coffee Roasters

Facebook | Just Love Coffee Roasters

There's also a widget in the sidebar that will take you to the Just Love Coffee Roasters website. Just Love Coffees is more than just a place to get your fair trade, specialty coffees--the vision behind it is both personal and global. You can read about my cousins, Rob & Emily Webb, their story of adoption and the motivation for starting Just Love Coffees, here.

I was thrilled to be able to meet my new first-cousins-once-removed on my recent visit back home to middle TN. Communication mostly took place in shy smiles and grins, since my Amharic is, well, non-existent. Can't wait till next time, and neither can Clare.

Till then, Just Love Coffees is, I hope, going to be our coffee-supplier-of-choice as soon as it's up and running in the Fall. So if any of you are needing a supplier, well, I know a guy. Yeah, my cousin, just lemme know, I can hook you up. (imagine me imitating Jon Stewart's NJ routine here)

I know I'm not the only in need of a daily morning and afternoon fix. Let's use our addiction to make the world a more just and loving place, shall we?

It's over! Yay!!!

I was really good and only slipped up once. But seriously, the best I could figure that I saved from not consuming beverages other than tap water was seriously less than some other people. Now, that could make me feel smug and virtuous, as in, wow I spend so much less than other people, blah blah blah, or it could make me feel like a heel for not generating a whole lot of revenue for the organization we're donating to. I'm a little conflicted about it. But the truth is, I pretty much drink water and coffee--and the coffee I brew at home. So my estimates were a good faith effort to reflect reality...but I'm glad we have a few Starbucks junkies around to make up for my lack. I don't know yet what our final tally as a church is.

Best of all, Brent helped me celebrate the end of this spiritual discipline with a brew from Grumpy's.