The LLI Fellowship Mission
Introduction
to Mission:
From the day our family of seven people (now
nine) was sent from New Jersey to the Pilot Mountain, NC, we sought to stay very close to our G-d to discern His heart
for this area. The story of Abraham greatly encouraged us to hang in and trust in His leading (Gen.12.1). Not
knowing any better, back in 2005, we prayed and prayed for Spirit of Christ to send a great revival to the area, and over
the course of the first year, somewhere around March of 2006, the L-rd confirmed His Word to us that He would send reviving
winds our way, two months later we opened Livin Lattes Cafe right in the center of town.
Since opening Livin Lattes Cafe we allowed the Spirit of G-d direct us as He pleased (Ex.23:20-33). My wife
and I have poured everything we had to acheive the goal of "positive change" in the small community of Pilot
Mountain. Livin Lattes was developed, we believe, straight from the heart of G-d to connect
people in our challenging times.
We believe that the Livin
Lattes model will work anywhere in the world where G-d's people are placed to reach their local community with
the message of Christ's love. We believe a cafe provides a perfect setting to meet people and
start building dynamic relationships and hopefully in time a church family is gathered by God grace. Because it
is natural way of connecting with people, we avoid the awkwardness of dragging people to a setting where a cuture,
not truth, makes a connection with Christ unnecessarily difficult.
We believe you will feel the Spirit's touch on this vision and
we hope we can join together in the days to come to truly bring change to North America, "one community at a
time!"
LLI Fellowship Mission:
Livin Lattes International (LLI) Fellowship was formed to meet the spiritual needs
of communities all across North America. In order to foster hope and new direction for repressed areas, we believe a LLI
Fellowhip sponsered cafe located strategically in target community is the most effective method to bring life and
hope to the local community.
The outer shell of the LLI Vision is a retail for profit establishment. The
retail side of vision, Livin Lattes Cafe, offers high quality coffees, cold and hot espresso drinks, fruit smoothies,
baked goods, gourmet sandwiches, and great entertainment. The product offerings must be of a high quality and priced
within the purchase power of local economy.
Naturally in a small community the idea of bringing people
together around a cup of coffee opens the door for conversations and through these conversational connections,
in due time, positive change is introduced to the community. Areas that are positively effected are:
Unity among businesses, unity among local churches, gathering of business leaders to promote town vision, families brought
together, and old grudges and divisions are put away by God's powerful grace.
The desired experience of a Livin Lattes Cafe is to present a sense of warmth and homey-ness.
In other words, we seek to present a very comfortable "living room" on Main Street. The experience,
look, and feel will change from community to community depending on location, culture of town, and type of building we
prayerfully choose for the Livin Lattes Cafe setting. Location must meet the business requirements of income potential
and high visibility.
LLI Fellowship and its spiritual leadership believe that prayer, preaching of the gospel, positive example,
and the training of Jesus-based disciples provides the greatest impact for change in any community. We start
by establishing a faith-filled intercession for town leadership, law enforcement, teachers and schools, churches, families,
and the local economy, in doing so we fulfill the Law of Love set forth by our Saviour. As faithful heralds
of His message and ambassadors of the Great Commission, we are called to gather Christ's sheep and then to guide
them to serve Christ in the way of their gifting.
As a church emerges, hopefully all members of the body serve to bring Christ's
vision for the community to fruition. All aspects of life whether on the business side or ministry side of vision are
important and must function in harmony under the guidence of the Holy Spirit.
