Please Pray For Your Friends!

Last night Holly and I attended the "Prayer and Healing" service at First Baptist Church, Orlando. After singing some great songs we were each handed a couple of "prayer request cards" that people had filled out that attended our church last week and we were asked to pray for them.

Here's what one of my cards said,

"Pray for my old friend Willie. Even though he cannot be my friend anymore, please pray for his pride to leave his life forever".

Please pray for your friends, even if they are not your friend anymore. They still need you!

Our "Secret" Experiment...

We have germinated a coffee seed!

Many of you remember we started experimenting with growing coffee back in January. Central Florida is very similar in climate to West Africa with temperatures there, being about 5-10 degrees warmer.

While learning about the human trafficking situation at the cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast, I decided to start my own experiment with growing cocoa.

Much to my surprise, cocoa is even easier to grow from seed than coffee and it's also a high demand cash crop in most of the world. We now have 20 coca trees that are all around 10" tall!

Cocoa #1

Cocoa #2

Cocoa #3

Cocoa #4

Coffee Tree

We're hoping to take what we learn here in Central Florida, to Burkina Faso and stimulate the local economy.

Oh, by the way, here is what one of the little coffee seedlings look like today!

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Thanks for your continued interest and support in The Burkina Bean Company!