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Journey to the Coffee Lands
Enough for Everyone Delegation to Nicaragua
January 10-17, 2009
Application Deadline: October 15
Learn about global economic issues and visit fair trade coffee and sewing cooperatives. Download an application. 
Email Amy Wisehart at Equal Exchange or call (774) 776-7423 for details. Scholarship assistance may be available.
Presbyterian Coffee Project
Good
coffee for a good cause
The Presbyterian Coffee Project offers
a special link between congregations and communities around the world. Churches
can now reach out to neighbors overseas not only with the prayers and offerings
we give, but with the goods and products we purchase. A warm cup of coffee (or
tea) in our hands is perhaps the most tangible daily connection we have with
farmers around the world. It represents warmth, hospitality, fellowship, hard
work, and life's pleasures both fine and simple. Buying fair trade through the
Presbyterian Coffee Project ensures that more of the money we spend on coffee
reaches the hardworking farmers who actually grow it.
Participating congregations testify that the Presbyterian
Coffee Project is a great way to help people in need while enjoying fellowship
and an excellent cup of coffee. Fair trade practices complement our mission with
farmers in Latin America, Africa and Asia, as well as our commitment to stewardship
of the natural environment. By using fair trade coffee in our congregations,
offices and homes, Presbyterians help guarantee that farmers will earn the income
they need to feed their families, educate their children and improve their communities.
Fair trade is a simple solution that means the difference
— quite literally — between surviving and not surviving for
small-scale coffee farmers.
Congregations get started simply by ordering
fairly traded coffee. In your congregation, a women's group, youth group,
mission committee or peace and justice committee might sponsor this project.
As your congregation enjoys this high-quality coffee (as well as tea, cocoa,
sugar and chocolate), take time to learn about its impact on the people who grow
it. Read about coffee farmers, discuss issues of justice in the global marketplace
and take action in the spirit of love. Long-term congregational commitment has
sustained Presbyterian and ecumenical ministries of relief and development for
over 50 years. With such commitment, we can also make a difference in this new
way.
About the Coffee Project
The Presbyterian Coffee Project is part of part of Enough
for Everyone, a
joint effort of the Presbyterian Hunger Program, the Presbyterian
Peacemaking Program, Women's Ministries, Social
Justice, Environmental Justice Office, Stewardship
Education, Self-Development of People, and Presbyterian
Women. Enough for Everyone is a
partnership ministry of the General Assembly Council of the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.). |
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