Mission & Outreach
Just Coffee/Café Justo Cooperative - Helping our neighbors help themselves (one pound of coffee at a time)
SCVUMC Mission: address the poverty and migration from Mexico to the U.S.A. by supporting the Just Coffee/Café Justo Cooperative
How is our Church helping & Why?
Café Justo/Just Coffee is the recent crop of family farm raised organic coffee beans in southern Mexico, roasted and shipped from the border town of Douglas the same week we make our order. We order coffee to enable small farmers to make a decent living for their families. As part of our mission outreach, SCVUMC places an order of Café Justo coffee 3 times a year.
Regular coffee is $10 & decaf coffee is $11 per pound (full 16oz), beans or ground, dark or regular roast. Delivery is in the spring, fall and after Thanksgiving.
Helping small farmers get a fair price for their organic coffee has been a mission project of SCVUMC for over 15 years. Consider ordering coffee for your church, for your worksite, or give a pound as a gift. Contact the SCVUMC church office (520-282-4085) for the next order date and to place an order.
A Direct Relationship in Mission
Do you know who grows the coffee beans for your morning cup of coffee? Do you know how old it is or when it was roasted? If you drink Just Coffee/Café Justo coffee, you do know. The farmer’s name is on every pound of coffee you buy and the date it was roasted. Just Coffee is about a more direct relationship between the coffee drinker and the coffee grower. We help small farmers make a sustainable living, one cup of fresh organic coffee at a time.
For more information visit www.JustCoffee.org
San Fernando Elementary School, Sasabe, AZ
Many years ago, SCVUMC began a Christmas gift ministry for all children at Sopori School in Amado. Over the years, that was expanded to include San Fernando Elementary School in Sasabe. Several years ago, it was decided to suspend the program at Sopori School but to continue with San Fernando. Starting with Christmas gifts, our involvement has grown to include providing school supplies at the beginning of the school year, providing professional school pictures for all the children, having Santa visit with gifts at Christmas, sponsoring a school field trip, giving Easter baskets to the children and participation in special activities at the school. Last year we asked members of the church to “adopt” a student and send cards and letters to the children. This has proved very successful and now, SCVUMC is firmly entrenched in the life of San Fernando Elementary School and our involvement has enriched the lives of all concerned. http://www.sanfernando35.org/
The Friends Disability Ministry
In 2019, we began Friends for Life, a ministry with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. That ministry inspired the creation of Adventures with Friends, an Adult Disability Day Program on our church campus, owned and operated by Assure Healthcare Group of Arizona. Today our ministry has expanded and includes Adventures with Friends social fellowship program and Friends Fellowship, a monthly dinner church for high school and older with special needs and disabilities and their families.
Contact Assure Healthcare Group of Arizona to learn more about our Adult Disability Day Program, Adventures with Friends. 480-318-5076.
