Gloria Jean’s says it no longer supports Cafe Church

Following our story in last week’s Newsline about the incursion of a Baptist Church into High Street coffee chains, we have been informed by Gloria Jean’s Coffees that, after a change in ownership, it is no longer participating in the scheme. Gloria Jean’s has only three shops — in the British Midlands — although it has branches in forty countries.

The only supporter of the Cafe Church scheme is Costa Coffee which, according to Cafe Church, now permits 50 of its shops to be used by the Baptist scheme as churches. The project was originated by the appropriately named Rev Cid Latty.