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Quote from the Starbucks web site and from one of the cups they serve everyday. Starbucks proudly admits the quote is in every store and has been passed out to millions of customers. Look at the WORD they are spreading:
obviously Anti- God and Anti- Faith and Anti - believers. So if you as a church are buying Starbucks you are honoring this anti God Sentiment.

I ask you as a church if you are serving Starbucks - please serve it in these cups. Because you can't serve two masters - you are either honoring God are honoring money( Starbucks) ( THE ANTI - GOD Company). Taking it to far? They have handed this quote out to a million people - how many were impressionable teenagers? Again if its no big deal - use the quote as a display in your church coffee shop and serve the coffee in this cup. Giving them a dollar sends the same message. So if your church coffee shop is meant to serve as a place of fellowship or worship it cant serve Starbucks as you just took honoring God out of the equation.

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Boake Moore decided to help children in need and so founded a non profit coffee company called Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee -http://www.missiongrounds.com/ourphilosophy. It donates all its profits and proceeds to helping orphans and impoverished children. We currently are building schools in rural China, orphanages in South America; supporting orphans in Russia and Africa. And helping homeless children in the United States.
Lets make the world better -
George "Boake" Moore
Mission Grounds
gourmet coffee

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Mission Grounds is currently helping children in the US, China, Russia, Costa Rica, South Africa, Kenya and Venezuela. We provide support in many ways; from food to shelter and clothing. We also provide monthly support in Africa, Russia, Costa Rica, China and Venezuela.

We are engaged in two large construction projects which include building a school in China and an orphanage in Venezuela. Both projects should be completed by Spring 2008. Plans are also under way to build another school in China and another orphanage in Venezuela for 2008. We are also looking at construction projects in Nigeria and in Sudan.


Mission Grounds Helps Children


In Atlanta, Mission Grounds is working with a homeless shelter for children, Jars of Clay Outreach. We have contributed new appliances for the shelter’s kitchen, provided craft materials for after school fun and supplied book bags which included school supplies and children’s books.

Through our monthly newsletter, we have found 2 groups of adults who are donating their time. They read to the children, help them with their homework and provide them with the attention they need. We are also working with children’s groups in Buffalo and in New Orleans providing books, book bags and other school supplies.

Mission Grounds receives its money to operate from donations and from the sale of coffee. We hope to expand our mission of helping children in other cities such as Pittsburgh and Charlotte.


Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee is the finest Tarrazu gourmet coffee coming out of Costa Rica. Tarrazu is considered the best Costa Rican coffee and comes in five grades of quality. The best grade of coffee grows on top of the mountain; at the slowest growth rate – ensuring a rich flavorful taste without any bitterness or aftertaste.


We only sell the highest level of coffee; unfortunately there is not enough of it grown on the mountain peak to meet the needs of the large retail chains; who must buy the level 2 or level 3 coffees to get enough quantity. Mission Grounds is one of the only places to buy this highest level of the Best Costa Rican Tarrazu coffee.



Mission Grounds is currently located in 25 Kroger Grocery stores in Roswell, Alpharetta, Norcross, Dunwoody and Duluth, Georgia. We are also expanding soon into the Buckhead and Cumming locations. Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee can also be ordered on line at www.missiongrounds.com

The coffee with a divine purpose – helping children everywhere!

Our Story: http://www.missiongrounds.com/storybehindsite.php

Our Philosophy: http://www.missiongrounds.com/ourphilosophy.php

Our Coffee: http://www.missiongrounds.com/products.asp


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Boake Moore founded Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee helping children around the world as a non profit. It focuses on helping homeless children in the United States and orphans around the world. www.missiongrounds.com

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Here are the basics to brewing the perfect cup of coffee: You take some coffee beans from a coffee plant. Roast them as desired no more than 45 minutes or you start losing flavor. Use only shade grown top of the mountain beans. Grind them a lot or a little – the more you grind the more flavor you get. Add hot water, preferably bottled water or filtered water ideally around 195 - 200 degrees F. Wait maybe 5 minutes. Either filter to remove the grounds or leave them to settle to the bottom. Optionally add spices, milk product, chocolate, sugar, fat free lactose milk creamer; then SIP; Drink. Smile . Wasn’t that easy? You just made the perfect cup of coffee. Now you need it to be the most satisfying cup of coffee.

Now how do you turn the perfect cup of coffee into the most satisfying cup of coffee?

You use Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee beans(www.missiongrounds.com) to brew your coffee of course. The gourmet coffee that donates all its profits to helping impoverished children. With every purchase of Mission Grounds coffee beans you are directly helping a homeless child or orphan. As you sip your perfect cup of coffee think about all the homeless children in Atlanta you are helping; or the new school in Jinming China you are helping to build; or all the orphans in Venezuela who will be in their new casa de ninos soon that you are helping to build; or think about all the orphans in Russia or Kenya you are helping with food or diapers or other supplies. The cup is becoming more and more satisfying. Think about the orphanage in South Africa you are helping with books and all the homeless children in Atlanta you help provide book bags and books and school supplies. So isn’t it the most satisfying cup of coffee knowing about all the impoverished children you are helping as you sip the coffee made from the finest shade grown Tarrazu coffee bean grown in Costa Rica. Most customers claim it’s the best coffee they ever made but they are confusing satisfying with perfection – or are they?




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Boake Moore is an IT Sales engineer by trade and raises 5 children too. He also founded a non profit coffee company called Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee -http://www.missiongrounds.com/ourphilosophy . It donates all its profits and proceeds to helping orphans and impoverished children. We currently are building schools in rural China, orphanages in South America; supporting orphans in Russia and Africa. And helping homeless children in the United States. Lets make the world better - George "Boake" Moore Mission Grounds http://www.missiongrounds.com



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Le Lacheur is widely credited in Costa Rica as having transformed the economy of this Central American country by establishing a direct regular trade route for Costa Rican coffee growers to the European market, thereby helping to establish the Costa Rican coffee trade and development of gourmet coffee in Costa Rica. He set up the market and the trade routes that allowed the coffee business to bloom and flourish.

Little is known of his education and upbringing. At a young age, he went to sea, working his way up to become the captain of his first ship, St George in 1827.
William married Rachel de Jersey (1798–1882) in parish church of the Forest, Guernsey on 19 May 1828. They had five children: Rachel, Emma, Amelia, John and Louisa

The Start of Costa Rica gourmet coffee and coffee trade
After sailing for 3 years and building a good shipping route and building up some capital to expand his shipping business he decided to expand his business.
In 1830 he entered the Azores fruit trade with the ship Minerva. By 1836, he had formed a company Le Lacheur & Co, which owned two ships: Minerva & Dart. Over the following years, he continued to add to his fleet, and seek out new markets. In 1841, Le Lacheur took delivery of the barque Monarch. The Monarch was a much larger vessel capable of journeys further afield. During a stop at the port of Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, he learnt from the British Consul of the difficulty that the Costa Rican coffee growers were having in finding a market for their produce.

Since their independence in 1839, Costa Rica found no regular trade routes for their coffee and European markets. This was compounded by transportation problems. The coffee-growing areas were located in the central part of the country, and it was impossible, because of the mountains and the rainy forest, to send the coffee to the Caribbean Sea and therefore to the Atlantic. It was a lot easier to ship the coffee to a Pacific port, Puntarenas, and to sail around Cape Horn to the Altlantic. It was before the Caribbean railway from San José to the Caribbean and the Panama Canal were built.

William saw a business opportunity, and agreed with Costa Rican coffee growers to establish a regular service to carry their coffee to London. In 1843, the Monarch arrived in the Costa Rican port of Puntarenas, and loaded the first cargo of nearly 5,000 bags of coffee.The venture was a success, and he began increasing the size of his fleet to accommodate the increasing demand for coffee in London. During the rest of the 1840s, he diverted his other ships from the fruit trade to the coffee trade. Then starting in 1850 he commissioned the construction of five ships designed especially for the coffee trade. During the 1860s, a further seven ships were added to the fleet.

In addition to his contribution to the Costa Rican economy through establishing trade routes, Le Lacheur made a significant impact on the development of a number of other aspects of Costa Rica. Church coffee - much like Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee - a tradition started then - giving all the proceeds from coffee sales to help others - www.missiongrounds.com.

Le Lacheur, a devout Christian, was appalled by what he described "the lowest form of the Roman faith" being practised where superstition took precedence over true religion. Through the British and Foreign Bible Society, he obtained and distributed Spanish Language bibles, thereby introducing Protestant faith into Costa Rica. As a result he distributed 3,500 bibles in Costa Rica, and was presented with an inscribed Imperial Quarto Bible by the Bible Society in recognition of his achievements.

In 1864, the year after Le Lacheur's death, it was resolved to build the first Protestant church in Costa Rica. It was made of pre-fabricated iron, was carried to Costa Rica by Le Lacheur's son John and was assembled in San José as the Church of the Good Shepherd. It became unofficially known as the 'Iron Church'. When it was rebuilt in 1937 with more traditional materials, a memorial plaque was erected to Le Lacheur with an inscription which includes the phrase ' by whose exertions public Protestant worship was established in this Republic '.

Once Le Lacheur had established a fleet of ships that were regularly making journeys between Costa Rica and London, he arranged with several Costa Rican families to take their sons to England for their education. This has been cited as a contributing factor to Costa Rica's economic success.

This arrangement was also responsible for the introduction of the game of football to Costa Rica. Through this Le Lacheur has also been credited with contributing to Costa Rica national team qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup[1].
Army and Defense of Costa Rican

When William Walker, an American filibuster, attempted to invade Costa Rica in 1856, the Costa Rican government declared war. However, the march from the Costa Rican military base in San José to the northern border was an arduous one. Le Lacheur put his ships at the disposal of the Costa Rican military commanders to transport the army up the coast to the border so that they would arrive fit and ready to fight. As a result, they successfully repelled the filibusters.[2]

He is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London. There is a Memorial to Captain William Le Lacheur of Guernsey in the Church of the Good Shepherd, San José, Costa Rica. Postage stamps have been issued commemorating his achievements by both his native Guernsey (1997) and Costa Rica (1963).


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Boake Moore founded Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee - www.missiongrounds.com to help impoverished children around the world.

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Le Lacheur is widely credited in Costa Rica as having transformed the economy of this Central American country by establishing a direct regular trade route for Costa Rican coffee growers to the European market, thereby helping to establish the Costa Rican coffee trade and development of gourmet coffee in Costa Rica. He set up the market and the trade routes that allowed the coffee business to bloom and flourish.

Little is known of his education and upbringing. At a young age, he went to sea, working his way up to become the captain of his first ship, St George in 1827.
William married Rachel de Jersey (1798–1882) in parish church of the Forest, Guernsey on 19 May 1828. They had five children: Rachel, Emma, Amelia, John and Louisa

The Start of Costa Rica gourmet coffee and coffee trade
After sailing for 3 years and building a good shipping route and building up some capital to expand his shipping business he decided to expand his business.
In 1830 he entered the Azores fruit trade with the ship Minerva. By 1836, he had formed a company Le Lacheur & Co, which owned two ships: Minerva & Dart. Over the following years, he continued to add to his fleet, and seek out new markets. In 1841, Le Lacheur took delivery of the barque Monarch. The Monarch was a much larger vessel capable of journeys further afield. During a stop at the port of Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, he learnt from the British Consul of the difficulty that the Costa Rican coffee growers were having in finding a market for their produce.

Since their independence in 1839, Costa Rica found no regular trade routes for their coffee and European markets. This was compounded by transportation problems. The coffee-growing areas were located in the central part of the country, and it was impossible, because of the mountains and the rainy forest, to send the coffee to the Caribbean Sea and therefore to the Atlantic. It was a lot easier to ship the coffee to a Pacific port, Puntarenas, and to sail around Cape Horn to the Altlantic. It was before the Caribbean railway from San José to the Caribbean and the Panama Canal were built.

William saw a business opportunity, and agreed with Costa Rican coffee growers to establish a regular service to carry their coffee to London. In 1843, the Monarch arrived in the Costa Rican port of Puntarenas, and loaded the first cargo of nearly 5,000 bags of coffee.The venture was a success, and he began increasing the size of his fleet to accommodate the increasing demand for coffee in London. During the rest of the 1840s, he diverted his other ships from the fruit trade to the coffee trade. Then starting in 1850 he commissioned the construction of five ships designed especially for the coffee trade. During the 1860s, a further seven ships were added to the fleet.

In addition to his contribution to the Costa Rican economy through establishing trade routes, Le Lacheur made a significant impact on the development of a number of other aspects of Costa Rica. Church coffee - much like Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee - a tradition started then - giving all the proceeds from coffee sales to help others - www.missiongrounds.com.

Le Lacheur, a devout Christian, was appalled by what he described "the lowest form of the Roman faith" being practised where superstition took precedence over true religion. Through the British and Foreign Bible Society, he obtained and distributed Spanish Language bibles, thereby introducing Protestant faith into Costa Rica. As a result he distributed 3,500 bibles in Costa Rica, and was presented with an inscribed Imperial Quarto Bible by the Bible Society in recognition of his achievements.

In 1864, the year after Le Lacheur's death, it was resolved to build the first Protestant church in Costa Rica. It was made of pre-fabricated iron, was carried to Costa Rica by Le Lacheur's son John and was assembled in San José as the Church of the Good Shepherd. It became unofficially known as the 'Iron Church'. When it was rebuilt in 1937 with more traditional materials, a memorial plaque was erected to Le Lacheur with an inscription which includes the phrase ' by whose exertions public Protestant worship was established in this Republic '.

Once Le Lacheur had established a fleet of ships that were regularly making journeys between Costa Rica and London, he arranged with several Costa Rican families to take their sons to England for their education. This has been cited as a contributing factor to Costa Rica's economic success.

This arrangement was also responsible for the introduction of the game of football to Costa Rica. Through this Le Lacheur has also been credited with contributing to Costa Rica national team qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup[1].
Army and Defense of Costa Rican

When William Walker, an American filibuster, attempted to invade Costa Rica in 1856, the Costa Rican government declared war. However, the march from the Costa Rican military base in San José to the northern border was an arduous one. Le Lacheur put his ships at the disposal of the Costa Rican military commanders to transport the army up the coast to the border so that they would arrive fit and ready to fight. As a result, they successfully repelled the filibusters.[2]

He is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London. There is a Memorial to Captain William Le Lacheur of Guernsey in the Church of the Good Shepherd, San José, Costa Rica. Postage stamps have been issued commemorating his achievements by both his native Guernsey (1997) and Costa Rica (1963).


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Boake Moore founded Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee - www.missiongrounds.com to help impoverished children around the world.

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Worship values. We need to teach and model the realities of what is truly important in life. Our time to worship and our faith in God should be the most important thing in our lives. Worship is a seven day per week pastime not a Sunday morning date. We need to teach them everyday starts by worshiping God. And Sunday also needs to have more reverence. Sunday is THE day of worship, a day of reverence and rest not a day to schedule birthday parties and little league games. We need to teach and model the reality of God and his grace, being loving in our relationships, the truth of the Word of God, the salvation that comes through Jesus, the importance of a life surrendered to God, that God is first and foremost, that God sees all we do so being an honest person, living holy lives, and living in community – is the only way to live. Once we trust in God and put our faith in him and worship Him as He deserves - the rest of our lives become much richer and become much easier to manage. Our children have to know that all of reality and all of life is spiritual at the core. This is God's universe, whether we are dealing with marriage, dating, finances, careers, or our mission in life. We have to teach our children to see that God has principles, answers, solutions, and guidance for every single area of life, so they will look to him and trust his ways. To trust in the Bible for our answers not our culture.
Reflection time: I hope to pass on to my children how critical free time is and how valuable your time is. I think as a generation our worst vault is our “business” and ability to overbook ourselves. We never ever have any time to reflect or to mediate; to spend time alone or for that matter to book a lazy time at home with the family. My first value will be of time – to be less busy; less scheduled; less stress – to value your free time and to learn to schedule “nothing” or time to do nothing. The time to meditate; to reflect; to dream and plan is so critical to a healthy life but is often completely missed. To teach my children to leave the office an hour early so as to spend more time with the family instead of working late.
A Servants Attitude: As Americans most of us are blessed to have more than we will ever need. Most of us live in excess – having more toys and spending our free time enjoying our toys and leisure. I want to teach my children to use their blessings on helping others – to use their free time serving others. It takes a long time to realize the joy of helping others far exceeds the pleasure of driving a new boat or playing the latest video game. My second torch to pass on is to teach my children it is far greater to serve others than to serve yourself.


The importance of friends – deep biding relationships. One of the best things we can bequeath to the next generation is how helpful, how rich, and how essential it is to have abiding and vulnerable personal relationships with one another. They need deep relationships that they can not only share with but who will also hold them accountable. They need connections that transcend friendships and ones that go deep within to give each other safety, grace, acceptance, comfort, and truth - relationships in which we provoke each other to love and good works. (Hebrews 10:24) They need to have a small group that is biblically based and will help them grow spiritually.
Less perfection. It seems with emails; computers and better communications – errors seem to get magnified and publicized. Unfortunately this has led to huge pressures to be perfect. Everyone now strives to be so perfect. One thing we don't need to pass on is our generation's perfectionism! I hope to teach my children to be able to accept the truth about faults, weaknesses, and failures and not hide in shame, self-judgment, and condemnation. To be more forgiving and less judgmental. I want to teach them about trust and honesty; about confession, forgiveness, grief, restoration, healing, and moving on. This will help them deal with the baggage they will naturally carry and learn to grow as imperfect people who have a living message of hope for a world that is lost. To experience more joy and happiness in their imperfection.
Praise. I hope to model to my children how proud I am of them; how wonderful they are and how much God loves them. Our children need our blessing. They need to know we aren't holding on to power, territory, or authority. They need to know we trust them and love them and we believe in them and Support them, take initiative to help, mentor them, and guide them. Give them confidence in who they are so they aren’t so apt to change to make someone else happy.
God’s blessings don’t mean being wealthy. Unfortunately we have somehow tied our wealth or lack of it to how much God is blessing us. And if we are successful its because God is blessing our actions. True we do owe everything to God but somehow we attribute our success to his approval and that’s the furthers from the truth. I want my children to learn God’s love and blessings are the same whether we are rich or poor and aren’t an indication of either.
Less judging. This seems to be such an issue I decided to make it a point in itself. We all judge OURSELVES and others too harshly. Culture is constantly setting standards no one can meet and then we judge ourselves too severely. Worse yet we are constantly judging others when we hate it when others judge us. It seems these days those who call themselves Christians end up being the most judgmental. Again nothing is as critical as teaching your children the importance of trust and honesty; about confession, forgiveness, grief, restoration, healing, and moving on. And once they learn to be less judgmental of others they also stop being so concerned with judging themselves and if others are judging them. It’s so freeing.
To value money less: to not let their careers dictate their time and who they are. To find joy in their family and friends; in serving others and to find your stock in life in god and not in your workplace. To learn to save more and spend less and to not have to continue upgrading your spending habits to match you’re earning increases. To not to have to continuously upgrade your house and car. To find your satisfaction in worship and not in your toys.
The Importance of Prayer – though it’s last it’s certainly not the least. We need to pass on to our children how important prayer is; how vital it is to our well being and what a blessing it is to talk to God. You can’t have a better friend or supporter. How often is HE and our prayer time the first thing we cut out of our busy schedule. To have a set prayer time; to start the day in prayer; to pray in the same quiet room; to become a habitual prayer. Pray, Pray and Pray.
May God bless you and your children.



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