Grace Case | Fall | 2023

Connect Over a Cup of Grace

“You are to paY special attention to those who bY... time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with You.” - saint augustine

everY soul wants more than a powerful experience. it wants to experience a powerful connection.

connect set of 4 han D ma D e ceramic mugs

RETAIL VALUE $100

Ethically made by GloryHaus in China

Hand-painted, original design Handwash only, do not microwave

Connect with friends and family over a cup of steaming grace. Each mug holds a generous 16 ounces of your favorite warm drink. Enjoy this reminder to connect and remember that life isn’t meant to live alone.

GloryHaus

GloryHaus creates high-quality, inspirational decor that speaks life and love into your space. They offer trendy and unique, handmade and fair trade items for your home and life.

A Family of Artisans in China

GloryHaus has long partnered with a precious family-run artisan group in China who own a small, ethically-sourced workshop. The family has employed talented artisans for decades who hand paint every carefullymade product.

When you sip from your hand-painted mug, you’re supporting this family and the people they employ. It’s more than a job though, it’s family. Artisans in China and the GloryHaus team do more than work together; they care for one another in this beautiful partnership.

It’s a joy to shine a light on ethically-made product in Asia that provides hope and sustainability in a beautiful way.

more than being in awe, what the soul seeks is intimacy with the other.

more than profounDlY astonisheD, we want to be profounDlY connected to others.

more than seeing anD experiencing something beautiful, we want to be fullY seen anD experienced bY someone -- bY goD anD bY people. more than intimatelY knowing wonDers, we want the wonDer of being intimatelY known.

Handwash only

16” in diameter (20” handle to handle)

Created from metal, your beautiful tray is crafted into a circular shape with a low trim to keep the contents contained. Two metal handles adorn either side to make it easy to transport this piece from the kitchen to your gathering space. This serving tray is perfect to load up with snacks or drinks, and with a 16” diameter it fits your four Connect mugs perfectly.

Ethically made by Noah’s Ark in India

Noah’s Ark

In Moradabad, an Indian city with a population of almost 1.2 million, more than half of the people are involved in the metal handicrafts trade. Unfortunately, the industry has long been plagued with injustice. Artisans are paid low wages, forced to pay commissions to exporters, and must self-finance the raw materials needed to complete orders.

As the cost of metal has become prohibitively high and the international market has evolved, artisans must invest in diversifying beyond Moradabad’s tradition of brass crafts—though many fall victim to bad debt or shop closure. Trades that are passed down from one generation to another make up an important part of India’s culture. Yet the heritage and tradition of handicrafts is increasingly threatened as insufficient profits force marginalized artisans to seek other professions.

After many years of witnessing the artisans’ struggles, Samuel Masih established Noah’s Ark International Exports in 1986 in an effort to raise the artisans out of poverty and preserve their livelihoods. Noah’s Ark has supported artisans and their families with fair wages, long-term business investment and collaboration, and health and education initiatives for more than thirty years.

J ustea mt . ken

black loose tea

RETAIL VALUE: $16 Ethically made by JusTea in Kenya

Flavor Notes: Strong and Malty, Cocoa Bean and Dried Fruit

6 Simple Steeping Steps for Loose Leaf Tea:

- Boil Water at 205 degrees.

- Scoop 1 tsp of leaves per 1 cup of water (250 ml) into an infuser.

- Put infuser in mug or tea pot and pour in boiling water.

- Steep for the specific time for the tea type. Typically teas steep for 3-5 minutes.

- Remove the infuser from your mug and enjoy your tea. Don’t compost the steeped leaves from the infuser just yet! Since JusTea only uses whole leaf tea, you can save those leaves to resteep a second delicious cup!

- To re-steep, follow the same steps above but double the steeping time.

Meet Your Tea Farmer

Monica is a veteran tea plucker. Handpicking tea provides her family of 5 with a steady income. Fun fact: Monica and all her children are left-handed! At JusTea, we’re dedicated to fairly traded and farmer-direct tea benefiting Kenyan farming families with fair wage and steady employment opportunities.

Hand-carved in Kenya, these spoons provide fair wages for approximately 200 carvers and sanders. Carving in Kenya is mostly a seasonal job because the demand is driven by tourism, so in the off-season, there is a reduced need for workers. But our spoons are made year-round, creating sustainable employment for the carvers. 90% of the price JusTea pays for the spoons goes directly to the artisans, with the remaining 10% going to supplies and transport. These spoon carvers earn about 2-3 times the minimum wage in Kenya.

All of the spoons are made from offcuts of olive wood.

olivewoo D spoon

tea infuser with D ual - use

coaster li D

RETAIL VALUE: $16

Ethically made by JusTea in China

Dimensions: Infuser 5” handle width, 2.5” basket diameter, 3” height

Coaster Lid 3” diameter, 0.75” height

Crafted from 100% food-grade stainless steel

Make clean-up a breeze and cut down on waste with JusTea’s stainless steel infuser with a dual-use coaster lid. The large capacity of the steeping basket gives your tea leaves plenty of room to circulate and expand, releasing more flavor. With 10,000 micron holes that allow water to flow freely, this extra-fine infuser allows you to steep any size tea leaf.

Each infuser is manufactured from 100%

JusTea

JusTea offers the first and only farmerdirect tea from Kenya. We partner directly with small-scale tea farming families and communities to ensure that the farmers are paid a fair wage, that we reinvest in the community, and that you get the freshest, most delicious tea

JusTea is the first North-American partner for this cooperative’s organic herbal teas. Over 80% of the employees are women and they support hundreds

JusTea is a proud member of the Fair Trade Federation which is a holistic approach to the fair-trade supply-chain. We are one of the few tea companies in North America that have been verified by the FTF because all of our teas strictly follow fair-trade principles.

souls were maDe to connect to other souls. anD to the extent that we finD ourselves DisconnecteD, our own souls break into pieces. the whole universe confirms it, rings with it: there is no realitY apart from relationship. realitY is exchange, connection — koinonia.

koinonia is more than a cup of coffee anD small talk; koinonia is the fellowship of the broken sharing brokenness, being broken anD given in all waYs, gooD brokenness alwaYs breaking baD brokenness. in a broken worlD, isn’t the call alwaYs to real soul connection, koinonia, to communion with a small, intimate community that bears each others burDens? whatever we are facing, we are calleD to face each other, connect with each other, to make the time be a community for each other.

a cup of grace coffee sampler

RETAIL VALUE: $12 Ethically made by Airship Coffee in Central America

4 oz., ground coffee

Flavor Notes: Vanilla, dark chocolate, honey

The blend of vanilla, dark chocolate and honey is composed of beans from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Sumatra in direct partnership with Airship Coffee. It is better than fair trade. Airship works directly with farmers to improve their lives through opportunity.

Airship Coffee Joel + Julio

Airship Coffee works with coffeegrowing communities in Central America to set up sustainable agriculture projects. Airship helps connect small coffee farmers in Honduras and Guatemala with a market of consumers who want to purchase high quality, fair trade coffee.

Joel and Julio, cousins who are coffee farmers in the Acatenango region of Guatemala, are just two of your coffee bean growers. They have been working with Airship coffee to develop the land, produce a great crop and improve people’s lives for more than ten years.

Woed

car D s

RETAIL VALUE $12

Printed in the USA

Connect cards are great for any time. They work perfectly over a cup of coffee or tea; at mealtime, on road trips, during community groups, etc.

1. Keep your cards in a hightraffic area of your home, like the kitchen table or breakfast bar, in your purse or handbag.

2. Use them in a planned way, like at a gathering or at an impromptu dinner on the go.

3. Questions are meant to start conversations. Use them as a springboard to connect.

4. Interrupting isn’t kind. Ask a question and then wait patiently for reflection.

5. Bring your vulnerability. Connection happens when we let our guard down.

Connection, communion, koinonia, is a mutual intersection. one person’s storY anD traJ ectorY is intersecteD bY another person’s storY anD JourneY, anD each receives the other person anD their storY into their own broken places.

each person takes the time to break open their heart, anD give of themselves to fill another’s heart’s broken places, anD this is what happens: in connecting with each other, we become communion for each other.

Mercy House Global

Not only did your Grace Case purchase provide dignified work for artisans around the world, but one hundred percent of the profits go toward funding the work of Mercy House Global.

which is to saY, when two people connect we become the cross. we incarnate Christ