Cafés in churches

Here is one:



http://www.hhchurch.com/content.cfm?id=317

 

As long as they are not trying to fund a pastors 7 figure salary I am good with it.

 

Yeah, an 8 figure sum is sooo much better!!! LOL...

I am feeling my cheerios today!


Ann, another option would be to buy coffee that supports missions... I've seen one lately, and will try to get you a link.

 

Question: Wouldn't opening a cafe cause a church to become a "business" and lose it's tax exempt status?

 

I have been looking, but I can't find what i am looking for.
At our State Convention in October, there was a table where we could buy coffee beans from a mission connected with one of our missionaries.

Here is an example but this wasn't the missionary http://foxthailand.akhahilltribe.org/

The idea is the missionaries are training people in coffee bean production so that they can be self sufficient..

The one I am trying to find was sponsored by American Baptist Women. It was from a missionary who is working with women in a country where one of the only professions was prostitution, or human trafficking. So, the missionaries there are training the women to grow coffee beans, in order to make a living.

Ann, I know your church "grows" your own missionaries, but one of them may also be involved in this in one of their countries... as I understand it, this is pretty popular in missions.

So, this may be a way to not only do missions here, but also help missions around the world.

 

Good question, and I am sure if a church wanted to look into this, they would need to meet with a good CPA to find out how to manage this.

 

Here is a page from our mission board... http://www.internationalministries.org/read/14784 It is an article from one of our Missionaries, Kit Ripley, and it describes their work with The New Life Center, and what they are doing to help end human trafficking in Thailand. And If you read down the page you will see it mentions "Lanna Caffe"

Here is the link to the Lanna Coffee http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/lannacafe/index.html

Here is a link to order the coffee... http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/cgi-bin/producttype.cgi?producttype=LannaCafe

And here is the link to the currency converter so you can compare prices http://www.xe.com/ucc/

 

Not necessarily. As long as it was not operating in a profit sense it would not. And it is nearly impossible for churches to lose their tax exempt status since it does not rely on a 5013c letter. Churches are automatically exempt under the tax code with or without a 5013c letter.

 

I am just realizing, there are Christians in America aren't there.

I think reaching out is very part of Christianity, especially when you think of the gravity of it's message.

Unless your a hyper calvinist and think why bother.

 

Great! We have one (it's not staffed, but it is a place to sit, read and enjoy coffee and occasionally pastries.

We are going to have one for the teens as well very soon, where they can hang out, shoot pool, play games and hang out (part of the gym)

 

Ours started out in a movie theater!

 

He has a specific day? I thought today was the day the Lord has made, let us be glad and rejoice in it! Whose day are the other 6?

 

Translation: I do make others work on the "Lord's Day" and need to insert an ad hominem here to take the pressure off of me before I perjure myself....

 

I didn't think we actually observed the sabbath, do we? If we did we couldn't cook or buy or sell anything.

 

Just don't mention the last few posts on the Puritan Board. You may get banned as I did.

 

Wow. i just glanced over their rules. Of course, I don't really have time to read them all. I certainly don't begrudge them the right to make whatever rules they want for their forum, but man, that is a lot of rules.