A Place To Come Home To

Ruby’s Coffee House is a ministry initiative of Team Hungry. We desire to provide a safe place where students and families can come and realign while enjoying great-tasting coffee.

We have selected to serve the award-winning single-origin Twin Engine Coffee.  Their mission to “stop poverty, one family at a time” but using local farmers distinctly aligns with our calling for community.  All coffees are 100% certified organic by the USDA and the Fairtrade Federation.  Today, 99% of the world's coffees are grown in the world’s poorest countries.  Twin Engine Coffee's business model keeps the maximum possible resources at the source.  400% more than Fair Trade Coffee Industry standards.  

So why should you support this initiative?

Help us bring back the idea and purpose of community.  A place where one can belong, feel accepted, and just be still.  We want to energize Sharpsburg and revitalize people in the process.  We plan to invest in our community one person at a time as they patron Ruby’s Coffee House.  Would you please consider supporting this endeavor as we strive to be “a place to come home to.”

The Story of Ms. Ruby Temple

Ruby’s diminutive stature belies her rich moral and spiritual vitality.  Her religious fervor includes God in every conversation, every thought, and every action.  Her prayers are direct two-way communications with God, and the messages she receives govern her life.  She is a bundle of fiery energy and a tremendous asset in Acahualinca where she now lives and preaches.  Thousands of garbage pickers live in this poor Managua neighborhood that borders La Chureca, Central America’s largest garbage dump.

In the 1980’s she and her sister had their own church in Kukra Hill, a tiny sugar mill community near Pearl Lagoon on the Caribbean Coast.  As is true for many east coast residents, English is her first language and she gave us her testimony in English, but she also speaks Spanish and a smattering of Miskito.  Although she considers herself apolitical, at the time of Paul’s visit in 1987 she was critical of the local Sandinistas for not allowing her to use loudspeakers to broadcast her sermons throughout the community.

Her most traumatic war experience occurred in 1985 when she was traveling on the so-called “Bluefields Express”--in reality a very slow riverboat that carried passengers on a six and a half hour trip from the end of the road at Rama to Bluefields on the east coast.  At one place along the route, contra bullets and mortars showered the boat from the shore.  Ruby stayed on deck in the middle of the gunfire, praying and holding her hand high onwards to the heavens.  She doesn’t know how many were killed or wounded, but she arrived in Bluefields unscathed, with her hand still reaching toward the sky.

Ruby died January 12, 2010 in her home in Managua. 

Pictured below are students praying boldly over the future of Ruby’s Coffee House :