January 2018

On the Beautiful Pairing of Coffee and Campus

It was February 14, 2004, and I was sitting across the table from the store manager of our local Starbucks in Westerville, Ohio. After about ten years as a youth pastor, I found myself with a craving. It wasn’t caffeine that I needed. Getting outside the traditional walls of the church and a comfortable ministry environment was the urge I could no longer resist.