Our Story
It all started January of 2020, when my wife and I went on a missions trip to Costa Rica with Filter of Hope. It was there that I experienced my first Honey Processed Coffee, which was locally sourced and roasted. It was so unique and delicious I just had to learn more about it, so we visited the coffee farm, tasted a fresh coffee cherry and I came back to the States with a new passion for my morning brew.
Shortly thereafter, the pandemic hit and we found ourselves cooped up inside quarantining with family. My mother in law challenged me to get a hobby and a passion for coffee roasting was birthed. The next month I was ordering green coffee and started roasting on the stove with a coffee popper. It was one of the best coffees I’d ever tasted and I was hooked.
Moving back to NYC the popcorn popper was no longer feasible without good ventilation, so I invested in a Behmor coffee roaster with a catalytic converter for smoke suppression and started roasting in a studio apartment on the Upper West Side. I continued to refine my approach to roasting using the Behmor logging over 150 roasts for personal consumption and friends/ family.
Fast forward to 2023, sitting in a church service and hearing the pastor call for us to live missionally, it hit me. Many top coffee producing countries fall within the 1040 window and most churches provide coffee as part of hospitality programs. Wholesale coffee from big national roasters might be cheap, but it doesn’t taste as good and their values may not align with the churches who are serving their coffee. So 1040 Coffee Co was formed, first to provide high quality, missionally focused coffee for consumers, cafes and church hospitality programs with the ultimate goal of using coffee as the vehicle for business as missions within hard to reach coffee producing countries.
Our Vision
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1040 Coffee Co - start a missional coffee roastery focused on coffees sourced from countries within the 1040(ish) window for direct to consumer and wholesale distribution to cafes and churches for coffee hour hospitality programs. Generate awareness of coffee growing regions and missional needs within each country through providing exceptional coffee.
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1040 Coffee House - expand ministry partnership and work directly with missionaries in coffee producing countries. Open dedicated coffee shop and/or trailer focused on education and fostering community.
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1040 Coffee Imports - source coffee directly from ministry partners. Work to further develop relationships within coffee producing countries to expand business as missions outreach and impact.
“We felt like Jesus didn’t hang out at the synagogue, he hung out at wells. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. Let’s not wait for people to come to us, let’s go to them.”
— Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church