Coffee Mission

By Diane Trail
ChristianWeek

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS -- When you blend Christians' love for coffee plus their concern for the missions and fair trade with the internet, you get Coffee Online. CoffeeOnline.org is an idea conceived by Dermot Westcott as he walked through a small coffee farm in the Honduras in the late 1990s.

Westcott, a native Newfoundlander, made a unplanned trip to the coffee farm in San Matis, a small community on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, while on a short-term mission trip with Youth With a Mission after Hurricane Mitch.

'As I was gazing at the cherries on a coffee plant that day I found myself thinking about all the coffee we, in the Body of Christ, drink. If we took our purchasing power in the church to buy coffee as a fundraiser, there was no limit to the possibilities.'

Westcott established Coffee Online in 2001. The e-commerce website is dedicated to raising money for missionaries and mission organizations and to funding a missionary retreat centre called His Secret Place through the sale of fair-trade coffee."

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