A Real Team Effort

We laucned our official partnership with Land of a 1000 Hills Coffee this past Sunday, and there's lot of neat things happening with that, but one of the things that most excites me is the real team effort it required to pull off this switch. Among the team's contributions

• proceeds from the fall craft fair helped purchase the coffee equipment; the craft fair is organized annually by Marti; in addition, this year Vicki recruited the many volunteers needed to pull off this event so that we had proceeds that go to equipment purchase
• when buying our own own equipment, Doug and Lee reserached local options, online options, pricing, specs, and a host of other issues and got us the best equipment, the most equipment, at the best prices
• someone had to detach the old equipment and install the new stuff, thanks to Greg for that work
• a ministry such as this requires week to week management and a passion for teh potential good this change can do in Rwanda. Nancy has this and oversees the ministry, and kicked off this past Sunday handling coffee sales and donations.
• we needed to communicate the change to the church, why we're making the change, and Doug and Joslyn played key roles here
• our coffee ministry team is made up of 8 people inclding Nancy and Larry, Deb and BJ, Greg and Julie, and Doug and Karen, who make and provide the coffee each week; they have played key roles with this switch as well.

I probably overlooked some folks, but personally, so much of what has been good about this switch has been that it's been a real team effort, and something that the team has been excited about.