It started with a question Pete and Patti Shambrook kept circling back to in 2015: what would it look like to do ministry outside of church walls?
The answer turned out to be a coffeehouse. Not as a gimmick, but as the most natural front door they could think of. A place anyone could walk into, order something good, and stay as long as they liked. It took years of planning before the first cup went out, and they didn’t rush a step of it.
“We wanted a hub for the community. Coffee was how we’d open the door.”
They found their spot in a Victorian on West Chapman, built in 1907, one block off the historic Orange Circle. The renovation could have erased the house. They went the other way and kept the original trim intact, letting the old and the new sit together. People walk in and say it feels like a home, which is the highest compliment the place gets.
CedarHouse Coffee is owned by CedarHouse Ministry, and the two aren’t kept at arm’s length. The cafe is the warm, public side of the same work. Whatever you believe, the welcome is the same, and so is the coffee.
Intention
Hand-made syrups. Beans chosen with care. Nothing here by accident.
Belonging
A seat for the regular and the first-timer alike. Stay a while.
Creativity
The room was made to host more than coffee. We’re only getting started.
The cafe is chapter one.
Marriage classes. Art classes. Artist markets. Open mic nights. The room was always meant to hold more than a morning rush, and we’re building toward it a little at a time.
Come see it