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COFFEE

Cafe Salvador - 12oz  - $5.15 per bag

Light wisps of almond and sweetness lead you to believe this coffee will be delicate, but rest assured, this 'all day' drinking coffee is more balanced than the scales of justice. Its remarkably soothing texture is one of the highlights of this coffee. Firm and unyielding with mellow body and soft acidity.

Full City Roast                 

Available in Drip Grind

Organic Breakfast Blend - 12oz - $5.65 per bag

In our 'original' version of Organic Breakfast Blend, the flavors of sweet vanilla custard, caramel and delicate cocoa are combined to make this traditional coffee so intriguing. Let the mild spirit and overall welcoming nature of our most popular blend take you by surprise.

Post-Roast Blend: Medium and French Roasts

Available in Whole Bean or Drip Grind

Organic Love Buzz - 12oz - $5.65 per bag

Created by a genius in Philadelphia, this secret recipe delivers a sweet, sultry and smooth coffee with an unexpected bite and lasting finish. A smorgasbord of roasts in a combination of Latin American beans so fine it will make your heart pound. Feel the love!

For every package of Organic Love Buzz sold, Equal Exchange will donate $0.20 into our Small Farmers Green Planet Fund. This money will go directly to our farmer partners in Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia and South Africa, to support their reforestation, organic conversion, and environmental protection efforts. This contribution is in addition to our regular Small Farmer Fund contributions to Interfaith Program Partners.

Post-Roast Blend: Full City and French Roasts     Available in Whole Bean or Drip Grind

Organic Decaf - 12oz - $6.15 per bag

A balanced blend with full body, rich flavor and sweet overtones.

Full City Roast
Available in Whole Bean or Drip Grind

Organic Ethiopian - 12oz - $5.65 per bag

We are proud to introduce this, our first-ever offering from the birthplace of coffee, Ethiopia. Grown in the southern state of Sidamo, this exotic and complex coffee has heavy body, gentle acidity and hints of vanilla, black pepper and raspberry, and lives up to Ethiopian coffee’s well-deserved reputation for excellence.

Full City Roast

Available in Whole Bean or Drip Grind

Organic Sister's Blend - 1lb - $6.75 per bag

With this special blend Lutheran World Relief and Equal Exchange honor women coffee farmers who are active in their co-operatives and Lutheran women in the U.S. who advocate for Fair Trade.

The coffee in this blend, which is a Full City Roast, is grown by small-scale farmers in Nicaragua and Peru and has a rich, smooth flavor and a sweet finish.

Full City Roast 

Available in Drip Grind

Organic Green tea - $2.50 per box

  
A healthful and invigorating tea made from premium unfermented Darjeeling tea. Green tea is known for its antioxidant qualities and low level of caffeine. 25 tea bags per box. 

Ingredients: Organic Darjeeling Tea

Organic Earl Grey tea - $2.50 per box         
  

Made from the finest tips and buds of certified organic Darjeeling tea. This tea is infused with natural bergamot oil to create a light fragrant cup. 25 tea bags per box.

Ingredients: Organic Darjeeling Tea, Natural Bergamot

Organic English Breakfast Tea - $2.50 per box

A delicious blend of malty Assam and crisp Darjeeling teas. A refreshing cup of tea that can be enjoyed throughout the day. 25 tea bags per box.

Ingredients: Organic Assam Tea, Organic Darjeeling Tea

Organic Hot Cocoa Mix - 12oz. - $5.00 per can

Our delicious fairly traded organic hot cocoa has a rich chocolatey flavor that children and adults will love. Easy to make with hot water -- the milk is in the mix! This product helps farmers in 3 countries -- the organic cocoa is from small-scale farmers in the Dominican Republic, the organic sugar is fairly traded from farmer cooperatives in Paraguay, and the organic milk powder from U.S. dairy cooperatives. Manufactured on equipment that processes products containing soy, wheat, and eggs.

Ingredients: Organic Evaporated Sugar Cane Juice*, Organic Nonfat Dry Milk Powder, Organic Cocoa* - Processed with Alkali, Organic Guar Gum, Sea Salt, Organic Carob Gum, Organic Vanilla Powder (Organic Vanilla Extract, Organic Maltodextrin, Organic Gum Arabic) (*Fair Trade Certified™)

Very Dark Chocolate 

Chocolate Espresso Bean

Dark Chocolate with Pure Cocoa Nibs

Milk Chocolate with a Hint of Hazelnut

Gift Baskets

Gift Baskets can be purchased completely assembled.  They make wonderful gifts for the holidays, house warming ideas, or for someone that just needs to be cheered. 

Please call the church office at 724-588-8870 for more information.

• FAIR WAGES
• CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
• WOMEN’S RIGHTS
• THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE
• ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS
• INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

The LWR Fair Trade Coffee Project ensures that more of the money you spend on coffee reaches the farmers who actually grow it. Fair trade coffee is a simple solution that means the difference – quite literally – between surviving and not surviving for small-scale coffee farmers.

Coffee: a bitter cup?

Coffee is big business – it’s one of the most heavily traded commodities in the world. But for the majority of small-scale coffee farmers, the benefits are few.

Conventionally traded coffee involves a lengthy, and expensive, cast of middlemen between the coffee farmer and the consumer, each taking their share – or more – of the coffee price. What’s left for the farmers may not even cover their production costs or basic living expenses.

Coffee prices are notoriously unstable and in recent years have dropped to historic lows, forcing farmers from Colombia to Tanzania to give up their farms. The unpredictable fluctuations in market price deny many farmers the ability to pay for daily necessities such as medicines, clothing or school fees. Overwhelmed with debt and unable to earn a consistent income, farmers are moving to the cities or migrating to other countries in search of work.

A simple solution: Fair Trade.

One answer for small-scale farmers is Fair Trade. Fair Trade shares the bounty of the coffee trade with those who grow the crop, helping them build a better future for themselves and their communities.

By working together and pooling their resources to form a cooperative, farmers can sell their coffee directly to international buyers without relying on middlemen. Through Fair Trade, farmers receive a fair price that covers their cost of production and guarantees them a living wage for their labors.

Fair Trade far surpasses the temporary assistance provided to farmers through charity. Instead, the ongoing business of Fair Trade consistently contributes to the living conditions of farmers, their families and their communities. Cooperatives use profits from Fair Trade coffee sales in establishing community improvement programs such as training in organic farming, leadership development, schools and health clinics.

The LWR Fair Trade Coffee Project: your role in Fair Trade.

Micah 6:8 calls us, as Christians, to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly.

The LWR Coffee Project helps Lutherans answer that call by righting the injustices faced by small-scale farmers around the world.

The LWR Coffee Project closes the gap between your church and the kind of communities in which LWR works. By using Fair Trade coffee and other products in your congregations and homes, Lutherans guarantee that farmers will earn the income they need to feed their families, educate their children, seek medical care and improve their communities.

THE LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF FAIR TRADE chocolate project

Who doesn't love chocolate? Its rich, creamy taste brings a smile to faces young and old. But for the farmers who grow the cocoa used in making chocolate, the taste isn’t always so sweet.

 
A bitter harvest?
            West African countries are critically dependent on cocoa. Ninety percent of the world’s cocoa is grown by families on small farms of 12 acres or less. In Ghana, cocoa revenues account for more than 33 percent of the country’s total export earnings. 
            Cocoa is one of the world’s most traded and speculated commodities, but the vast majority of the money that cocoa earns goes to middlemen, not to the growers. Oftentimes, farmers may be forced to sell their harvest for less than the cost of production, or for just slightly more, leaving little money to provide for their families.
            Low cocoa prices have meant severe poverty and even child slavery for many families in West Africa, tainting chocolate with the bitterness of social injustice.

Fair Trade means better lives for cocoa farmers.
            In Ghana, 20,000 cocoa farmers have united to form Kuapa Kokoo, a democratically operated cooperative that gives them stronger representation in the cocoa market. The farmers pool their crops to sell directly to international buyers without relying on middlemen. When the cooperative sells its crop to Fair Trade buyers, the farmers receive a fair price. Also, the cooperative receives a Fair Trade premium that is invested in the farming communities – to build wells, fund schools, and provide mobile medical clinics and other benefits.

Kuapa Kokoo has a mission to empower farmers in their efforts to gain a dignified livelihood, to increase women’s participation in all of Kuapa’s activities, and to develop environmentally friendly cultivation of cocoa. The cooperative also owns part of Divine Chocolate, formerly the Day Chocolate Company, which turns their cocoa crop into Divine brand chocolate bars. This means the farmers are directly involved in business decisions made about their cocoa and they’ll share in any of the company’s profits. Divine Chocolate is the first farmer-owned chocolate company in the world.

Divine Inspiration - History

The inspiration for Divine started from Kuapa Kokoo: in 1993 the cooperative members resolved to make a Fair Trade chocolate bar of their own. Kuapa partnered with Twin Trading, The Body Shop, Christian Aid and Comic Relief to form the Day Chocolate Company in 1998 to distribute Divine chocolate in the United Kingdom. 

After many years of success with Divine, Day changed their name to Divine Chocolate. In 2006, Divine Chocolate was established in the United States by Kuapa Kokoo, Lutheran World Relief, Divine Chocolate (UK), Oikocredit, and SERRV International.