Text Box: What is "arabica" coffee? Arabica, Coffea Arabica. The earliest cultivated species of coffee tree and still the most widely grown. It produces approximately 70% of the world's coffee, and is dramatically superior in cup quality to the other principal commercial coffee species, Coffea canephora or Robusta . All fine, specialty, and fancy coffees come from Coffea arabica trees. All of the Equal Exchange coffees are Arabica. WOMEN AS FARMERS AND LEADERS Women are an important part of the farmer cooperatives that produce Organic Sisters’ Blend. At CECOCAFEN, one of Equal Exchange’s trading partners in Nicaragua, women cooperative members and wives of members play an essential role in the cooperatives. More than 320 women participate in a solidarity savings and loan program. They are organized into 15 autonomous groups around activities that diversify the family’s income and compliment coffee production. Many of these women are saving money for the first time in their lives. The loans are used to start small income generating projects which help the women meet some of the most essential needs of their families — nutrition, school supplies, and clothing. In addition, they are learning business, marketing, and credit skills. Because the credit decisions are made in groups, their participation also promotes leadership skills and contributes to the development of their self-esteem. Give Organic Sisters’ Blend as a gift to your favorite women! As we share the gift of high-quality coffee from small-scale coffee farmers, we celebrate Latin American women’s work as farmers and U.S. Lutheran women’s work as advocates of Fair Trade. 2010 Lenten Journey on Climate Justice The ELCA Washington Office has teamed up with the National Council of Churches to offer a Lenten resource exploring climate justice and how it relates to each one of us in our daily lives and communities.  Each week of Lent, the series explores a new issue, lifting up stories from around the globe and providing ways that you and your congregation can help address climate change in your own lives.  You are encouraged to sign up for the series on-line at:  www.elca.org/ . Text Box: Luther College Symphony Orchestra The Luther College Symphony Orchestra tour will include Greeley and Cherry Hills Village.  The orchestra tours different parts of the country as well as Europe.  We are privileged to have them in Colorado this year. Next year they go to Vienna.  Information on the orchestra is available at www.luther.edu and at http://music.luther.edu/tours/orchestra/current/documents/SymphonyOrchestraProgram08-09web.pdf Austen Smith, Grandson of Dick & Marilyn Hartig is a percussionist in the orchestra. Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ 7:30 p.m. Our Savior's Lutheran Church Greeley, Colorado Tuesday, March 23, 2010 @ 7:30 p.m. Bethany Lutheran Church Cherry Hills Village, Colorado (Denver area)

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