Family, Faith and Fresh Baked Bread Community Bakery Cafe, located at 1200 Main St. in Little Rock, Arkansas. || Photo by Allie Atkisson Imaging, @allieatkissonimaging
South Main's Community Bakery is an important cornerstone of a revitalized neighborhood
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By Caleb Hennington Digital Content Editor, @arumceditor
n 2018, things were going pretty well for John and Juli Brandenberger. Both of them had comfy, good-paying jobs, -- John at Dillard’s Corporate Office and Juli a CPA with her own accounting firm -- stable day-to-day work schedules, and plenty of reasons to continue their life journey in the direction it was currently going.
By most people’s accounts, things were going amazingly well for the Brandenbergers. But, according to John and Juli, they felt like missing something truly important was missing from their lives. “I really wanted to do something that would fully fulfill me. Nothing against Dillard’s, of course, they are a great company, but we really wanted something that would allow both of us to live out our missions as a family,” John said. John had spent more than 20 years in the corporate retail business and was beginning to feel the effects of the many years he put into his job. Juli, although comfortable in her own job, was also starting to feel drained from her demanding job. Something was missing, although they hadn’t quite defined what that missing piece was. Not yet, at least.
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