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Blessed John Paul II taught us to not be afraid and to evangelize in a radical way using other mediums to reach out to young people. This coffee house is a response to his message. 

Mission Statement
The mission of The Shepherd's Café is to promote Catholic culture by providing a coffee house environment with Catholic décor, entertainers, speakers, and music for individuals to reflect, pray, enjoy, and grow spiritually in the fellowship of other Catholic Christians.  We commit to creating and maintaining a Catholic atmosphere that helps individuals to grow in the Catholic faith as witnessed by the Christian attitudes in their professional, academic, and personal lives.
 
Our Purpose
 
1. Create Catholic Culture -

The Shepherd's Cafe offers a common forum that encourages and promotes Catholic culture for like-minded people to come together to share and grow in their faith.  Our activities hold true to Catholic teachings and/or encourage those in attendance to live out their Catholic faith.  The cafe draws young people together for network opportunities and to strengthen the Catholic community in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
 

2.  Promote Vocations -

We work together with Religious Orders and Diocesan priests to promote Vocations and spiritually feed the people they encounter.

 

3.  Social Justice -

We help impoverished coffee farmers from Third World countries through our sub-ministry, Mission Coffee Ministry.  Serving coffee from Honduras and Nicaragua while sharing the stories of these farmers allows us to educate and make awareness of poverty around the world.
 

Our Future Vision:

  • To have a free-standing coffee house close distance to a Catholic church
  • Provide a coffee house open to the public for normal business hours Monday through Saturday
  • Promote and provide live Catholic entertainment (musicians, speakers, artists, comedians, shows, movies, etc.) on Friday and Saturday evenings
  • Create an environment where people can come for meetings or study
  • A place for social interactions, networking, and fellowship amongst Catholics
  • Offer variety of products (apparel, jewelry, books, cds, etc.) geared towards young people to promote Catholic culture at the gift shop
  • Promote Vocations by working with different Religious orders and Diocesan priest
  • Provide information, counseling, answer questions, or receive spiritual direction on a given time and day to individuals from organizations such as:
    • Various Religious orders and Diocesan priests
    • Pro-life organizations
    • Pro-bono counseling services
    • Any other Catholic organizations willing to serve young people

 

Future goal:
The Shepherd’s Cafe will be a non-profit organization - sole entity and not parish-based ministry. The café will work with Catholic Mission sites to purchase coffee from impoverished coffee farmers to ensure they get just wage and properly support them financially through Mission Coffee Ministry. Both Shepherd's Café and Mission Coffee Ministry will educate and make an awareness of poverty around the world by sharing the stories of these farmers and the Missionaries who serve them. The Shepherd's Café will publicize the need to support Catholic Missions.   All proceeds (minus expenses) will be given back to these Mission sites and farmers to help them continue their services in their communities.   Everyone who purchases coffee at The Shepherd's Cafe will partake in this great cause as one Body of Christ. 
 
 

John 21:15-17 - Feed my lambs....Tend my sheep...Feed my sheep

Our Patron, Blessed Marco d'Aviano, pray for us!
Saint of Missions, St Thérèse of Lisieux, pray for us!