The Sunrise Side Coffee Tour is back – and better than ever! Buy a Passport HERE We introduced the Tour last fall as PPI’s only annual fundraiser, and I explained then:
Most nonprofit organizations like PPI have a side gig. That is, they have committed support partners – like you! – yet they typically organize an annual fund-raising event to top up monies needed by the ministry. Golf outings, gala dinners, sponsored 5K runs or bike rides – these are a few examples of mission fund-raisers Rena and I have participated in through the years. Read that entire post HERE
The Sunrise Side Coffee Tour is our side gig.
Our first year went well. A total of 19 local coffee shops participated in the Tour. We more than covered our expenses, and word about the Tour began to spread. Individuals and families used their Tour passports to explore coffee shops all across eastern Michigan. Groups of friends made it their mission to visit the coffee shops featured in the passport. Some folks in West Branch formally organized a Coffee Tour group, and one coffee-lover visited ALL the shops on the Tour. (She’s getting a cool T-shirt and next year’s passport. Her story to come.) Fun!
NOW FOR YEAR TWO
This year 26 local coffee shops have joined the Tour – from Port Huron to Rogers City and all points between. Each shop has a unique vibe, good coffee and other drinks, and enthusiasm for this year’s Tour. We have this year’s Tour passports ready to go! Buy a Passport HERE
The passport includes the name, location and highlights of each participating shop AND offers a significant discount on drinks to passport holders. Check out example pages of the passport below.
Tour passports cost $20 each, same as last year, and shop discounts are active until October 1, 2025 (next year!). ALL proceeds benefit PPI. The tagline of the Tour is Have coffee. Help others. The passport introduces people to our ministry and encourages them to learn more about the need and opportunity to train church leaders in developing nations.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
1. Pray for this fundraiser to be successful for PPI and for participating shops! Sales of the Tour passport provide extra money for our ministry efforts in Haiti and other developing countries, and we want it to be win-win for small businesses, too.
2. Buy – and enjoy – a Tour passport. Purchase your Coffee Tour passport HERE. If you like coffee shops and meandering in Michigan like we do, you will love this Tour!
3. Encourage friends, family, co-workers, companies and schools to buy Tour passports. Coffee Tour passports make a great gift – birthdays, Christmas, employee incentives, client thank-you’s, or school fundraisers. We offer 20% off the purchase of six (6) or more passports at one time. CLICK HERE for more info on quantity purchases. The Sunrise Side Coffee Tour is the only coffee event of its kind in Michigan and provides a unique experience to passport holders.
4. Support and thank the coffee shops participating in PPI’s Sunrise Side Coffee Tour. Local coffee shop owners are hard-working small business men and women. We want the Tour to draw tourists and regular customers to their businesses.
Let us know if you have any questions about the Tour. Here we go – Year Two!
We buy Thompson Bibles, Creole Bibles and other pastors resources through CLC USA (
Our Thompson Bible order will land first at MFI in Fort Pierce, Florida 
Project Piti Pami (3P) 
1) It’s an overflow of my personal Bible study over the last several months. I first taught a class on Proverbs in July in Haiti at Pastor’s Jasmin’s Bible college (pictured). Since then, I’ve preached from Proverbs at two area churches, while updating one PPI supporting church and presenting PPI to another potential supporting church. I also shared from Proverbs at Gull Lake Camp in early August, where we served as Missions Rep for a week of family camp.
3) I have a little more “space” this fall to teach. Our pastor has asked me for over a year to lead a class, and I’ve waited until now because my time is tight. That’s true especially from January through August – times I’m heavily involved in preparing for and training international church leaders. This fall – along with teaching from the overflow of my personal Bible study – works to lead a six-week class.
We were super excited when 
After our time at Gull Lake, we had one day at home to wash clothes, mow the lawn, and re-pack our suitcases. The next day, we drove to Shelbyville, Tennessee, to meet our third grandchild in person, Theodore (Theo) Kenneth MacGillivray. He did not disappoint!
Do you remember when Jesus traveled with His disciples to Caesarea Philippi? (Matthew 16:13-18) It was quite a walk from Galilee to the forests and streams of Mount Hermon. Herod Philip had restored (and renamed) the city in Roman style in honor of the emperor, and it became a vacation destination for wealthy Romans. The main attraction of the city was the cave of Pan (Greek god of the woods) and its wall of gods (pictured). Shelves were carved into the rock face surrounding the cave for the figures of other gods. People could pray and sacrifice to whatever god appealed to them in the moment. Jesus chose this location to ask His disciples a life-defining question (Matthew 16:15): 
Once every church leader has written their faith story, we invite 2-3 of them to share with the class. One young pastor (pictured) shared that he grew up in a poor family. (In Haiti, where everyone is poor by American standards, this means his family was destitute.) When he was old enough, he left home and settled in Ouanaminthe to find work. He was desperate and alone, but some believers helped and encouraged him. He started attending their church, where he heard the good news of Jesus and turned over his life to the Savior.
Pray for the 90 church leaders who completed Course 2