Keep her 'lit'

So many tremendous things happened on our trip to the U.k. Meeting different people and going different places.

It was a great pleasure to meet Pete Green in person, a young married man with an even younger family, who ‘out of the blue’ decided to support the Living Word School. In a world which emphasizes taking care of me and mine or just me, myself and I, it is always refreshing and exciting meeting someone who isn’t conformed to how things are but is prepared to bring transformation.

Pete decided to leave his job to set up a coffee delivery company, where each coffee purchased would feed a child in need! His desire to make a difference has motivated and influenced those around him, providing not only meals for 100 children in the Amazon but also jobs for people back home in Halifax (www.teafortwo.org.uk).

Pete had invited us to see 816 espresso (http://www.816espresso.co.uk/) first hand, we watch coffees being made and delivered to local businesses, people coming in and out to pick up their coffees and even some coming to sit and enjoy their coffee in the sweet ambience of the 816 locale. Pete throughout the day gave us a running commentary, not of how many coffees had been made or sold but as to how many meals had been provided.

I asked Pete, “what is 816 in the 816 espresso”?, he smiled and said it is Luke 8 vs 16 (that is in the Bible :-) ).

Luke 8:16 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. (NKJV)

It basically comes from where Jesus is preaching on the mount of Beatitudes and telling the listeners what a life looks like that is living according to the Word of God!

We are called to make a difference in the community and the world that we live in…..go on……have a go……you were made to be the difference!