After years in the dreaming and planning stages, Bare Bulb Coffee is set to open in October at the intersection of Hwy. 96 and Lake Joy Road in Warner Robins – between Lowe’s and the new Houston Lakes Stadium Cinema.

Bare Bulb, a project of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Southwest Georgia, will serve the community with a full menu of coffee, espresso, teas, and smoothies as well as pastries, desserts, and light lunches.

However, this is not your average coffee shop. Bare Bulb is coffee on a mission. From offering fairly traded coffee that provides a sustainable and living wage for the coffee growers, to providing gallery and performance space for local artists and performers, to serving the area’s poor and at risk individuals through regular, ongoing mission projects, Bare Bulb seeks to shed light in the local community and the world.

Bare Bulb will also be the home of The Light, a new community of men and women seeking to trust God and to follow Jesus. Just as this is not your average coffee shop, neither is it your average church. The Light is a group of people who share meals and song, service and study - all in an effort to better understand how to live a life that honors God. It is a group for people who have questions and who want to help their neighbors.

The project was born in First Presbyterian Church of Warner Robins and quickly became a partnership between that congregation and the larger Presbyterian Church (USA). It is supported by several area congregations including Westminster Presbyterian Church in Warner Robins.

Bare Bulb Coffee will operate as a non-profit ministry of the Presbyterian Church (USA) with all of its proceeds benefiting mission and ministry in Middle Georgia and the world. The community is planning for an ongoing partnership with coffee growers in Guatemala that will include opportunities for travel to that country in mission and in friendship.

Coffee served by Bare Bulb is premium, Arabica coffee purchased from certified fair trade cooperatives around the world. Many of the varieties are also organic. The beans are custom roasted specifically for Bare Bulb by Master Roaster John Woodward of Columbus, Georgia.

Although the coffee house will not open until the fall, Bare Bulb sponsors a weekly conversation over lunch at La Cabana Mexican Restaurant in the Landing Pointe shopping center each Monday at noon. This is open to anyone who would like to attend.

For more information about Bare Bulb Coffee or The Light @ Bare Bulb, visit our website www.barebulbcoffee.org or email Nikki Collins MacMillan, Ministry Director, at nikki@barebulbcoffee.org.