The Mission and Values of Cafe Quetzal

Cafe Quetzal is a coffee shop and a non-traditional church community inviting people who are seeking authentic faith in the world. We are a community that values every step of the journey of faith and the depth of meaning in each question, each doubt, and each witness. We believe we are better when we come together with diverse thought and experience and share the different ways that we know and experience God.

Our community is built around three core values: Compassion, Connection, and Cause. Read more about each value below.

Compassion

We create inclusive space and invite people into compassionate authenticity with radical hospitality we see in the witness of Jesus. From the love poured out in every cup of coffee and every plate of food, we are called to be a place of radical welcoming and authenticity, reveling our diversity, honoring and engaging God’s presence in the every-day.

Cafe Quetzal will birth a new generation of authentic human beings who are in love with God and deeply loving toward neighbor. It is a movement: a call to service, a call to love, and a call to integrate our spirituality with the rest of our lives. It is a call to remember that God doesn’t live only in the sanctuary, but that all the world is a sanctuary.

Connection

At Café Quetzal we live, play, work, and worship together to know and love God and one another more fully. We are intentional about connecting to God, seeing the divine spark in one another, and being curious and courageous to cocreate life together.

Cafe Quetzal is inspired by the witness of the Wesleyan movement, a movement which focused on deep connections with the self, with others, and with God, that lead out into the world in connection and service. It was a movement of intentional personal and social holiness that listened carefully to the winds of the Spirit and danced with the Divine. It was a movement towards spirituality and away from religiosity. The spirit is moving in the hearts and lives of people today, calling for another movement towards revitalization and transformation.

Cafe Quetzal is ready to fly!

Cause

We source our coffee from a single-origin farm in Guatemala as part of our call to live out our global interconnectedness. Locally, Cafe Quetzal is committed to working with the Topeka community and welcomes community partners to our space for events and advocacy work.

In addition, we will donate 10% of our coffee sales to selected community partners right here in Topeka area each month. These partnerships will foster relationships of compassion and justice and will help to create a reality where all people live justly as divine siblings, working together and sharing the love of God.

We understand that we are co-creators of our community, and we will work diligently to revitalize our church, city, and world as guided by the Holy Spirit. We believe in abundance and are invested in making an impact in our community!