OUR STORY

QUALITY COFFEE GEAR

COLETTI is the Premium Outdoor Coffee Company in the U.S. Our ultra-durable high-quality products are engineered for the outdoors, and exciting innovations are on the way.

UNIQUELY VETERAN

COLETTI’s founding owner, Pastor Josh Gilliam, was commissioned as an Infantry officer in 2000 from West Point. Soon after, he was leading Soldiers in combat with both the 75th Ranger Regiment and the 82nd Airborne Division. During that time he became burdened by the lack of religious freedom and misunderstandings about Christianity. Josh resolved to – one day – open a door for the good news in that region.

OUR MISSION

In 2016 COLETTI was established with the purpose of generating funds to provide access to Christianity in places where it is feared and misunderstood – to champion the freedoms of press, speech, and religion that are so connected to human flourishing. Ten percent of profit is donated to this mission. Since that time other army officers and military veterans have rallied to the COLETTI team. COLETTI gives 10% of profits to this cause. Watch Josh tell the story here:

WHERE WE'RE HEADED

When COLETTI Veterans have gone to war overseas, they have found the Christian faith is often illegal and always misunderstood. There is no religious freedom–no chance for healthy conversations in these countries.

Today, twenty-five percent (25%) of the world’s population does not have the opportunity to understand Christianity.* A quarter of earth’s citizens belong to groups that have never had a meaningful opportunity to understand the Christian message. These misunderstandings often lead to violence.

When peoples have no churches, no Bibles, and no prospect to meet someone who knows anything of substance about Christianity. The Christian faith is often misrepresented and used to fuel hatred instead of love for their neighbor.

Of all the money that is given to Christian mission-work each year only 1% goes toward the 25% of the world’s population that has no access to Christianity. Only one percent!

COLETTI’s mission is to invest 10% of our profits to promote healthy interfaith dialogue in some of the world’s most dangerous places

*R.W. Lewis, “Clarifying the Frontier: Clarifying the Remaining Frontier Missions Task.” International Journal of Frontier Missiology, 35:4 (Winter 2018): 155-168. ...