MY ACCOUNT
At A Glance:
Persecution can feel like someone else's story a world away – like Christian families enslaved in Pakistan’s brick kilns. Ten Boom Coffee Roasters is closing that gap. Your morning ritual can help break a chain and walk a family out of a kiln.
The grinder hums. Steam rises. You wrap your hands around the cup and breathe in the familiar morning fragrance of coffee. It is the most ordinary moment in your day.
Half a world away, a Christian father in Pakistan has been awake for hours. He shapes wet clay into bricks, a thousand of them before the sun is overhead. He works to pay off a debt he did not choose. As did his father. And his grandfather.
Two mornings. One commodity between them.
Coffee is the bridge. And Tennessee roasters David and Jessi Peters are using it to shrink the distance between your kitchen and a brick kiln they have never seen.
David calls it "a bridge and a catalyst for the kingdom."
The Vision That Started in a Car
In 2023, David was driving when the idea arrived all at once. Coffee, he sensed, could be more than a commodity. It could be a vessel for the Gospel. He launched Ten Boom Coffee Roasters that year, and the name was not up for debate.
Corrie ten Boom, the last surviving member of the Dutch family who hid Jews from the Nazis during World War II, was also family to David in the more literal sense. Though not a blood relation, she had been adopted into David's wife's household. In that family, she was simply "Grandmother Corrie." Some of her personal possessions still sit with the family today.
Her legacy is the Gospel that David wants the brand to carry. He names it without flinching: "standing for truth, righteousness, loving your neighbors" – and forgiving even the prison guard who once held you captive.
"That's the heart of the Gospel."
Corrie herself traveled the 10/40 window, spending time in places like Syria and Jordan among refugee children. The mission David is building is not a brand borrowing a name. It is a family carrying a legacy forward. And it has led him to Pakistan.
The Brick Kilns of Pakistan
Across Pakistan, generational debt bondage traps Christian families inside the country's brick factories. It can start with a medical emergency, a funeral, a season of hunger. A small loan becomes a chain. The debt rarely dies with the borrower. It passes from grandfather to father to son.
Tens of thousands of kilns operate across Pakistan. Inside them, millions shape bricks. Many of those hands belong to children. A disproportionate number belong to Christians, pushed to the margins by both faith and class.
Faith endures in the heat. Believers hold onto Scripture by memory. And freedom is happening, one family at a time. This year, Global Christian Relief aims to free 500 families from kiln slavery, double last year's number.
Coffee as the Bridge
From the beginning, Ten Boom Coffee Roasters has built giving into its model.
"We donate 10% of every sale," David says. "It's not 10% of our profits – it's just straight up 10% of every sale."
That commitment has supported a number of Gospel-driven ministries since the company's 2023 launch. The latest is GCR.
David found GCR, and the math caught his attention. The cost of freeing one Pakistani family from generational debt was, by American standards, reachable.
That changes what a bag of coffee is. On your counter, it remains a morning ritual. But paired with hundreds of others, it becomes part of a family's freedom.
$809. That is the average debt-relief amount required to break the chain. Enough to walk one Pakistani Christian family out of a kiln.
But GCR's Blueprint for Freedom doesn't stop at the kiln gate. Through trusted partners on the ground in Pakistan, freed families are helped to launch micro-businesses that can support them. They receive financial training to help ensure they never return to debt.
For David, coffee is more than a commodity.
"I truly want to use [coffee] as a vessel for the Kingdom, as a conduit for the Kingdom."
Awakening the Sleeping Church
Persecution can feel like someone else's story. Oceans, time zones, news cycles. The family of God can feel a world away.
David is closing the gap with coffee.
You can stand on the same bridge. Order a bag from Ten Boom Coffee Roasters, and let your morning ritual help break a chain. Pray for the family whose freedom your purchase helps fund.
Your next bag of coffee could help walk a family out of a kiln.
Break a generational chain Help free 500 Pakistani Christian families this year
Generational debt has trapped Pakistani Christian families inside brick kilns for decades. $809 walks one family out.
And through GCR's trusted partners on the ground, freed families are given the training and support they need to stay free. Will you stand with one today?
