This is how the brochure for Tierra Nueva's Underground Coffee Project starts... are now local, underground artisan coffee roasters...
I'm drinking my morning coffee (now TN Underground) while I write. The brochure in front of me gives a better explanation than I did earlier.
The Tierra Nueva Honduras community of growers is the fruit of a 25-year long grassroots movement in the district of Minas do Oro. TN promoters reach out to poor farmers in neighboring villages, teaching them how to grow this coffee and other basic grains without chemicals, how to protect rich topsoil, use biodiversity and tree planting for shade-grown, bird-friendly crops such as this.
These growers are paid more for their beans than Fair Trade standards would require. We are looking for more than fair market trades: our mission is to invest lavishly in the communities of both the Central American farmers who grow the coffee and the local ex-offenders who roast and bag it here in the Pacific Northwest. Coffee is just one part of this larger movement for social renewal.
Men from our jail and migrant ministry are dismissed by employers: bad records, tattoos or societal status. So they go back to old habits. But we see how God is recruiting these gangsters, recovering addicts and those in other hidden places to experience spiritual renewal and become original ministers of unexpected love to the streets. This is underground discipleship.
As I said earlier, it is a beautiful thing, and good coffee. You can order it from the website: www.tierra-nueva.org or email Chris Hoke - chrishoke@gmail.com.
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