Today, I Coffee Ambushed my friends at Blood:Water Mission, a cause my wife and I've deeply supported for 8 years. Blood:Water Mission helps to build clean water wells, rainwater catchment tanks, and provide HIV/AIDS and Malaria medication to people all over Africa, many in coffee-producing communities.

The guys in Jars of Clay founded Blood:Water Mission in 2003, after a trip to Malawi, and since then, they've partnered with more over 800 communities in Africa, providing life-saving water and health needs for over 500,000 people in 13 different countries.

Along the way the 1000 Wells Project expanded holistically to include a variety of clean water solutions and sanitation and hygiene training, as well as funding health clinics, community health workers, and support groups, which help in the prevention, treatment, care and support of communities affected by AIDS, incorporating HIV/AIDS-specific programming alongside ongoing water programming.

This past May, April and I joined the organization in Nashville to celebrate their 1000th well finished.

Today, I had help from local coffee professional Jackson O'Brien from Bongo Java, and used the Batdorf & Bronson Guatemala Finca El Valle. So chocolatey good. Special thanks to Mike Lenda for setting up the Ambush within.