Red Rock Coffee

∗ Caffeine ∗ Culture ∗ Community

www.redrockcoffee.org

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The Highway Community owns and operates the Red Rock, a non-profit cafe in downtown Mountain View. Red Rock is founded on three values:

Caffeine

We strive to offer our customers the highest quality coffee experience, whether it’s espresso, whole beans, or our old friend – drip coffee.

Culture

Red Rock supports local art in all its many glorious varieties, and seeks to become a home for artists, musicians, writers, poets, and people.

Community

We long to see diverse people come together in a real, face-to-face environment, over piping hot cups of fantastic coffee, against the backdrop of great art and music.

Why does a church own a café?

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Good question.

The church has long asked people to come through its doors to experience what we have to offer, whether it’s teaching, music, counseling, help, food, community, or support. It’s a good idea, in theory, and one that the church has operated on for the last two centuries or so.

However, in the work culture of the Silicon Valley, it grows more and more difficult to serve our community as we’re increasingly over-busy, over-networked, and over-loaded with information.

Even before the inception of Highway, we had long dreamed of a public place where ideas, lives, music, art, food, dialogue, and relationships could collide in an open, community setting. Since the café has turned into the postmodern intersection of public life, it seemed the perfect environment to evolve into ‘the place.’

Red Rock is our attempt at a new expression of Christ’s challenge to spread his love and message to the world. As a non-profit we hope to live out the example of service through our business, and by giving back to the community that sustains us.

If you’d like to know more about the Red Rock story, contact Kevin Marks, or better yet, stop by and experience Red Rock firsthand.