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Pike House Coffee offers tasty coffee beverages in a warm, welcoming atmophere.
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When Greg Schmid asked God what he should do with his life, he was stirred to open a coffee shop. “I didn’t even like coffee during a time,” pronounced Schmid, who non-stop Pike House Coffee in Nov 2015. “I had a few people come into my life who upheld it and combined a place where a village could come.”
Schmid chooses Fairtrade coffee beans that are creatively roasted by internal companies in Knoxville or Maryville to make his domestic beverages. “We like to know where a coffee beans come from and what is going on in their community,” pronounced Schmid. He also sells uninformed pastries, and a internal Hello There Little Bakery provides cupcakes.
But Pike House Coffee is much more than a coffee emporium with giveaway WiFi. “We have kids that will travel here and lay and speak to me for hours. we usually listen and let them know we’re here to help,” he said.
Schmid has a prolonged story of portion teenagers, initial as a girl priest for 27 years and afterwards in girl growth during a YMCA.
Pike House Coffee partners with Fairview Baptist Church in “the Refuel” module to fill 7,000 backpacks with food any year. Every Thursday, Schmid collects a groceries for students in need during Corryton, Gibbs, Ritta and Fair Garden elementary schools. He hopes to supplement Shannondale and Gresham Middle schools this year.
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In about a week, special needs students during Gibbs High will attend in a mentoring module any Tuesday and Thursday. Students come to a coffee emporium to fill those backpacks, make coffee and do other tasks.
Pike House Coffee also sets adult a coffee emporium as a fundraiser during Gibbs’ football games via a season. They serve coffee to a teachers during slightest once a quarter.
Schmid pronounced they also horde Bible investigate groups, baby showers, goal fundraisers and Young Life meetings, and a Rambling Gals move their case uncover on a Saturday morning any quarter. Fairview Baptist Church also sponsors a Friday morning children’s storytime during Pike House Coffee.
When Pike House Coffee is sealed on Sundays, The Well, a method for college-age students, meets in a building.
“There’s so most things going on that no one knows about,” pronounced Schmid. “We do things not to be noticed, though since they need to be done. We move awareness.”
Using a dosomething.org platform, they ran a “Teens for Jeans” expostulate and collected 125-130 pairs of jeans for homeless teens.
“We are about to combine with Switzerland’s “Youth Underground’ to sell their T-shirts and lift recognition with girl about tellurian trafficking,” he said.
Pike House Coffee provides a usually “Safe Place” in Corryton. It works with a Helen Ross McNabb Center to assistance teenagers get to a protected residence – no questions asked. “I know when they travel in a doorway what they’re here for,” pronounced Schmid. “And there’s a demeanour of service on their faces. This is a place where mislaid kids can come and feel whole.”
Pike House Coffee, during 7404 Tazewell Pike, is open Monday by Wednesday 7 a.m.-6 p.m., on Thursdays and Fridays until 7 p.m. and on Saturdays from 8 a.m. until people stop coming.