Greetings from Venilla, Anbalagan and Sridhar,
I hope you all are doing well. Thank you for your continual support and love. We are so blessed with so many people covering us in prayer as we run the cafe.
Guess everybody needs to take time to renew their hearts and look back at how God’s been leading you so faithfully. It’s so important!
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| Jesus at the centre of our identity |
This past month has been a very refreshing month. We attended the sons and daughters retreat which was by far one of the best things that happened this year. It was a time where we didn’t have to worry about the cafe and just focus on Jesus. We were able to focus on our identities in Jesus rather than our identities in the cafe which was a real struggle for the three of us. We are so happy that we got free from that. It was incredible to hear from our brothers, sisters and friends (who attended the retreat) about their work in the mission fields. It was encouraging to listen to their hearts, their joy and struggles. We had an amazing time praying and prophesying over each other.
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| Retreat 2018 |
We were able to share our hearts with the others and let them pray over us and hear from God for the three of us. We had a powerful time praying over the cafe and acknowledging God’s goodness over the cafe. To be honest we’ve grown a ton in the management of the business compared to the first few months where we were not sure about so many things. Guess you learn a ton from experiences. Overall, we are very thankful to Jesus for his unfailing love, mercy and guidance over these 8months.
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| Our Cupcakes |
We had a great time at our monthly staff meeting this month. It was a blessing to hear from Manju as she shared about what God’s had been teaching her this month. We started letting our employees take turn and share about what God’s been teaching them. We want to give them an opportunity to share and bless the others. She spoke from Psalms 27:14. It says wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. It was really encouraging because one of our employees was struggling with this and she was asking God to speak to her and after Manju spoke it was like a confirmation of her prayers.
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| Venilla, Anbalagan and Sridhar |
We also started taking the time to have one on one with our employees. We usually take them out for a small snack or lunch and we spend time talking about their lives and praying for them.
The business is doing really good. Our newest item is the pumpkin spiced latte which has been a crazy hit amongst our customers. We love to talk to our customers and get their feedback. We still love doing what we are doing.
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| Pumpkin spiced latte |
Here are a few of our prayer requests:
1. Pray for the three of us to continually be focused on Jesus and not let our identities get messed up.
2. Pray for our team that we would continually keep lifting each one of them up and be able to speak life into them as well.
3. Pray for our landlord that we would have favour with him in every way possible.
4. Pray for the word that was spoken over our team that we would continually learn to wait on the Lord for all his perfect will to take place.
5. Pray for The Holy Spirit to dwell in our cafe at all time and that every customer will continually be blessed as they walk through our doors.
