Season of harvest

Greetings from Venilla , Anbalagan and Sridhar

Hope you are doing well. Thank you so much for taking your time to read our blog. This will be our last blog. We are so thankful for your continual support and prayers. We really appreciate it. The Daily bean cafe won’t have happened without you. We are grateful for your financial blessings and your prayers. Daily bean has grown so much these past few months with the new location. We are doing really well. We feel so blessed to have so many people supporting us and helping us grow this business.

Hummus and pita bread

This month has been a really calm one even though we had a lot going on. We felt like God’s been constantly taking care of our needs. We lost a few of our good employees who have stayed with us for more than a year. It was very hard losing them. It was kind of discouraging too.  As usual God’s been so faithful in bringing in more employees. The cafe has been so busy this past month. We were able to see lot more customers come to our cafe. It’s been a huge blessing. On our New Year’s Eve service our pastor prophesied Isaiah 9:3 over the whole church. The scripture says ‘you have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest. 

Fresh coffee beans from coorg

We feel like God’s been faithful in bringing more business to us. Our business has been growing and we believe that God is going to keep growing our business.  We strongly believe that this season is going to a season of harvest and we are going to enjoy God’s goodness over us. One other thing that God has been teaching us this month is to be more positive and see the best in people and love them for who they are. We started talking to our employees and help them to also start seeing the best in people. It’s so easy for us to judge and assume the worst in people. 

Personally God’s been reminding me of this verse over and over again this month i.e.; delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. It’s been so encouraging to me.  I just have to commit my ways to the Lord and trust him and let him do his job and he’ll give me my desires of my heart. Sometimes I focus so much on planning my life and trying to figure out everything not realizing that God’s taking care of me.

We have some new employees working with us at daily bean. We have been training them and teaching them how we do things at the cafe. It’s been fun hanging out with them and sharing about our vision and why we started daily bean. It was also so nice listening to their lives too.We hope to make an impact in their lives too. 

Our red velvet cupcake!

Prayer points:

1.       Pray for God’s protection over the cafe and the three of us.

2.       Pray that God will continue to use us to minister to our customers.

3.       Pray for more of God’s strength, guidance and wisdom for the three of us.

4.       Pray for God’s continual favor over us as we keep this business growing.

5.       Pray that God’s presence would be so tangible in our cafe.

A New Season

Greetings from Venilla, Anbalagan and Sridhar,

Happy New Year to all of you. We hope this year will an amazing year. We wanted to take this opportunity to share with you how our month has been. We are so happy that The Daily Bean turned 2 this past month! 

Playing a game at our employee Christmas party

We were able to sit down during our staff meeting and share the goodness of God. God has been so faithful to us, and we have seen him move on our behalf. During the past 2 years, The Daily Bean was able to expand and reach out to more customers! We had an amazing celebration of both our 2 year anniversary and Christmas with our team.

Dinner at Christmas Party

For Anbalagan, from the New Year, God has been teaching him about a season of harvest. He feels that the season of "sowing" is done in his business, and he will begin to see the fruits soon. The verse Psalm 128:2 says: "When you eat the labor of your hands: you shall be happy." Even though it's been tough loosing some of our long-term employees, I am trusting on this verse that the Lord has promised me. I truly believe this year will be a year of harvest for the Daily Bean, and we will see the fruit of our hard work. 

Ice Cream after the Christmas Party at Polar Bear

This month has been a wonderful month for Sridhar. It has been a great season of celebration and sharing the love of Jesus with our employees and families. We were able to take a few days off for Christmas to celebrate with our families. This was Shobha's and my first Christmas together after being married. We celebrated with both of our families, and we were very loved. God's been so gracious to us and His love has continually covered us. Both Shobha and I were able to sit back to take some time and see how God has been walking us through this past year and just be grateful for his hands over our lives.

Group photo

This month has been an awesome month where God's been teaching Venilla about the life of Moses. There are three things I learned from his life. First, Moses was a man of faith. Second, he was humble, and third, he loved God and his people. 
Moses was a man who had a strong faith, and he centred his life on God's promises. Even though he doubted himself so many times, he eventually overcame the doubts. He listened to God and followed him. Moses loved his people even though they fought a lot and questioned Moses on so many things. He was still with them till the end. He rescued them from the Egyptians. He trusted God and his process. In the same way, God has been teaching me to trust Him and His process. He wants us to be faithful to Him and to trust that whatever happens, He will turn it into good.


Prayer Points:

1) For God's grace in this new season in 2020.

2) For the Lord to lead the right employees to us who will commit to working with us for a long time. 

3) That we would have wisdom in managing at the employees. 

4) For God to move in our former landlord's heart to give us the remaining deposit. 

5) That we would be good stewards of what God has blessed us with.