Greetings from Venilla, anbalagan and Sridhar
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| at the wedding |
Hope you are doing well. Thank you so much for taking this
time to read our blog. We are so thankful for the continual support and
prayers. We really appreciate it.
It has been 23 months since we opened The Daily Bean. What an
adventurous journey it has been! We had lots of ups and down but the best thing
about it was we had God’s grace with us and the cafe. This month God has been
teaching anbalagan personally and the team from the Colossians 3:23 and 24 it
says whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord,
not for human masters. Since you know that you will receive an inheritance from
the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. This verse has been
speaking to us. It helps us realise how important it is to know that we work
for Christ and not a man and how we need to give our 100% no matter what. We also used this same scripture to teach our
employees about the importance of working hard, to give 100% in whatever they
do and also spoke about how rewarding it is when we hard work and it pleases God.
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| pumpkin cookies |
This month has been very busy. We finally feel like the
new daily bean is settling in since we had a lot of maintenance works in the last two
months. It has been 3 months since we moved from the old place. We are so
thankful for God’s presence over this place. This month we started focusing on
growing our business through various promotions. We started with our children’s
day, thanksgiving promotions. We also started a new executive lunch offers to
help us increase our sales on the weekdays. It’s been really nice brainstorming
ideas to help grow our business.
We did something that we never did before in the cafe. It was
our sister’s wedding instead of closing our shop we decided to let one of our employees
run the store for a day. It was a really hard decision but it turned out to be
a good one. It helped us to trust our employee and allow them to rise up from their place. It was good for us and the staffs. They did a really good job.
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| Our awesome team |
We started building a better relationship with our customers. One of our customers actually asked us
to pray for her, she has been really struggling to find a job. We prayed for
her and a week later she found a really nice job that was so flexible and they
paid her really well. She described to us that it was exactly the job that she
has been praying for. It’s crazy how God used us to pray for her and minister
to her. We want to be able to minister to our customers and God chooses this
lady and bought her to the daily bean. This is exactly how we want God to use us. We
just don’t want to be a cafe but a place where people can come share their
problems and we pray for them. We believe God is going to bring more people to
us so we can minister to them.
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| at the wedding |
God’s been teaching Venilla
from psalms 18 It says The Lord is my rock, and my fortress and my deliverer,
my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation,
my stronghold. I call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved
from my enemies. This has been a promise over her life. Sometimes we forget
that we can call on to God and he will answer us. We feel more comfortable
seeking people’s help instead of God’s. God just reminded her that He is her
everything.
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God has been teaching Sridhar from 1 peter 3:8 it says
finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be
compassionate and humble. This month has been a little challenging month for
him. This month he actually decided to take a break from work and visit Sweden with
his wife and her family. He applied for the visa. He was pretty excited about
the whole trip. But unfortunately the visa didn’t go through and it was pretty
devastating for him. He was very disappointing but out of this whole situation, God made their relationship stronger. He has a better relationship with his
brothers in law. He’s been faithful over his life.
1.
Pray for God’s protection over the cafe and the
three of us.
2.
Pray that God uses us to minister to the
customers that come in.
3.
Pray for strength, guidance and wisdom for the
three of us.
4.
Pray for God’s continual favour for us as we
start growing our business.
Pray that God’s presence
would be tangible in the cafe as the customers come in. 