Dear Friends,

Innovation and the Gospel have always gone hand in hand.

An innovator of His own time, Jesus brought a whole new relational approach to the proclamation of the Good News. Jim Rayburn brought innovation to the proclamation of the Gospel in 1941 with the idea of adults entering the world of teenagers with friendship, no-strings attached and chock full of adventure, hospitality and humor. To this day, the mission of Young Life continues to bring the unchanging Gospel message – the love of our Heavenly Father expressed in full through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ – to kids in innovative ways. Yes, innovation and the Gospel are good partners.

Enter 41 & Change Coffee Co. Forty-one is the year Young Life began and (&) change – well, that’s what we’re all about. Changed lives, changed families, changed communities ... and perhaps a little spare change to buy your next cup of coffee.

41 & Change is an inspiring story of how innovation continues to be blended into the mission of Young Life. Our Young Life camp, La Finca (The Farm), high in the mountains of central Nicaragua, just happens to be located on some of the most productive coffee growing soil in the world with a harvest worth considering, not for coffee alone, but for our greater global mission.

You see, 41 & Change is the innovative synthesis of our international mission impacting our domestic mission as 100% of the proceeds of 41 & Change sales goes directly to getting kids to Young Life camp. Not only that, but the workers who plant and harvest 41 & Change are considered valued partners in ministry and are paid generously for their work. With this valuable resource grown in Nicaragua, Young Life staff, volunteers and committee members in any corner of the world can raise money to send their local kids to Young Life camp. It’s a beautiful triple bottom line – local communities are blessed, kids get to camp internationally and domestically, and the Kingdom of God grows with each cup of 41 & Change coffee.

I hope you love coffee. If you do, you may have well found your new best friend! I encourage you to savor the excellence of this award-winning, world changing coffee. I challenge you to consider how you can use this innovative product to send kids to camp in your community. I invite you to continue dreaming with us about how to reach the next million kids with the love of Jesus Christ.

From all of us in the mission of Young Life and the team of 41 & Change, let’s continue the story of innovation entwined with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Change never tasted so good.

Dan Jessup Senior Vice President Young Life Latin America/Caribbean