Coffee For Bibles Project Translates the Old Testament into the Karenni Language

Over 1 billion people in the world are still Bibleless, meaning they don’t have the complete Bible available in their heart language. In November 2014 Walnut Creek Church launched Coffee For Bibles to help bring God's Word to people who need it.

Coffee For Bibles is a project of Go Forth. Go Forth offers a variety of high-quality lifestyle products with a twist: 100 percent of the proceeds go to supporting specific local and international missions projects. Our current project is to complete the translation of the Old Testament into the Karenni language.

In November 2015 Walnut Creek Karenni held their first service at Walnut Creek Downtown, becoming a part of our church family. The Karenni comprise nine different people groups, who speak different languages and dialects, from their home state of Myanmar (Burma). Many of the Karenni have lived for years in refugee camps in Thailand before coming to Des Moines. This Coffee For Bibles project will directly help our Walnut Creek Karenni congregation have access to the Old Testament in their heart language.

We are partnering with The Seed Company on this project, which will take $185,774 to complete. For every two pounds of coffee, one verse is translated. The Seed Company, an affiliate of Wycliffe Bible Translators, launched in 1993 with a mandate to accelerate Bible translation and impact for people without God’s Word. Since 1993, The Seed Company has translated 1,194 languages across 116 countries on 6 continents.

We also partnered with Colectivo Coffee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to provide our premium Walnut Creek coffee. Colectivo began sourcing coffee from origin in 1993 and has 20 years of experience providing quality coffee.

Coffee can be purchased at the Welcome Center of our Downtown location during their weekend services. You can also place your order online and pick your coffee up from our main office.

Please join us in bringing God’s Word to people who need it. For more information, visit walnutcreekchurch.org/coffee.

483 Bibles Donated Worldwide Through Coffee For Bibles Program

39 percent of American Millennials say they have never read the Bible. Two out of every five people in the world have never heard the Gospel. And 99 percent of Asia's 3 billion people have no access to God's Word at all. In November, Walnut Creek Church launched a new program–Coffee For Bibles–to make a difference. Since then we've donated 483 Bibles to reach people worldwide.

For each pound of Walnut Creek Coffee purchased, we donate three Bibles, two for outreach missions locally and one foreign-language Bible distributed by Gospel For Asia missionaries overseas. So far 161 Bibles have gone out through Gospel for Asia, and 322 Bibles have been distributed through the Des Moines metro area.

At each of our four locations, free Bibles are available for guests or for anyone who would like to take one to give as a gift to someone in need of God's Word.

Gospel for Asia is one of the largest Christian missionary organizations in the world and was founded by K. P. Yohannan in 1978. The ministry focuses on spreading the Gospel to India and Asian countries through the use of national missionaries.

We partnered with Colectivo Coffee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to provide our premium Walnut Creek coffee. Colectivo began sourcing coffee from origin in 1993 and has 20 years of experience providing quality coffee.

Coffee can be purchased at the Welcome Centers of our Windsor Heights, Downtown, and South locations during any of our weekend services. You can also place your order online and pick your coffee up from our main office. Regular coffee is $13/lb, and decaf coffee is $14/lb.

Please join us in bringing God’s Word to people who need it. For more information, visit walnutcreekchurch.org/coffee.

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By Jackie Wallentin 

Walnut Creek Windsor Heights