Small Business
Coffee Culture and Community
Alabaster Coffee Roaster and Tea Co. is a small, family-owned coffee bar located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Since 2010, the mission of Alabaster’s has been to create community through coffee culture. In their mission statement, they stress the importance of respecting all people in the process, from their employees to the farmers in Central and South…
Read MoreRedemptive Practices and Potential at Shaws
Shaw Orchards has proudly been selling fresh fruit in Stewartstown, PA for over 100 years. Though the family farm market is not Christian in name, operations are run ethically with excellence. Starting out as a simple apple orchard in 1909, founder Calvin Shaw didn’t have explicit plans to start a redemptive business. Over the years,…
Read MoreSharing Truth Through Skincare
One important aspect of the Gospel message is the fact that God created all people in His image, which gives us all inherent worth and beauty. However, this truth is rarely found within the beauty industry. In fact, there are many makeup and skin care companies who take advantage of women’s insecurities by drawing attention…
Read MoreBracelets That Change Lives
Have you ever been on an out of the country vacation and purchased a neat little bracelet as a reminder of your stay? Those bracelets may seem insignificant, but often times they are the only source of income for people living in third world countries. Co founders Griffin and Paul of the company Pura Vida…
Read MoreEconomic Relief, Innovation, and… Churches?
Many of you might be wondering, how do churches relate to the new federal stimulus package? With many small businesses, mom and pop stores, and even large corporations such as Starbucks struggling due to the government shutdown the the government recently released that it will loan out money to many businesses to help pay utilities,…
Read MoreEverclean Car Wash
Everclean is a for profit car washing company that has a redemptive impact. Usually, ‘carwash’ and ‘redemptive’ are not two ideas that we see in the same sentence, but Thomas Kim has successfully tried to change that association. Starting by purchasing a carwash that went out of business and creating a better business model, he…
Read MoreABeanToGo
This clever play on the famous Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego story in the bible is the inspiration for the beginning of a small, local coffee shop in Michigan. The story is in Daniel and the founders cite the reasonings for this allusion in their website. “It is a story of courage and bravery, patience and…
Read MoreThe Rabbit Room
The Rabbit Room is a faith-based, non-profit organization that seeks to share the beauty of God’s creation and truth through music, art, story, and poetry. Inspired by a visit to C.S. Lewis’s Oxford home, musician and author Andrew Peterson founded the Rabbit Room (named after the back room of the pub where the Oxford Inklings…
Read MoreThere is a whole lot more to a church than just preaching
Pastors these days don’t always know what they are getting themselves into when they decide to go to seminary and learn to become a pastor. The article speaks about how pastors didn’t “sign up” to be managers and CEO’s of a church . They figured that they would only ever be expected to preach a…
Read MoreSweet Frog!!!
Doesn’t frozen yogurt sound soooo good right now? Well it will sound even better to you when I tell you that the amazing frozen yogurt business called Sweet Frog is a Christian company. “Frog” actually stands for “Fully Rely On God.” Sweet Frog has a very similar vision to Chick-fil-a but they are a smaller…
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