Hi there! My name is Madeline Coady, and I am a full time missionary with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) in Portland, Oregon! YWAM is a global missions movement full of young people driven by a passion to know God and to make God known. Here at YWAM PDX, we are committed to engage our city with a loving God and to see His Kingdom come in Portland "as it is in Heaven." 

One way we plan to specifically engage with our city, is through the coffee industry. That is why we are pioneering Lost + Found Coffee: a coffee roasting business with a mission. Not only do we hope to use this as an outreach opportunity in our own city, but we also plan to impact the nations as we develop long-term, meaningful relationships with our coffee farmers!

When I first enrolled in my DTS (Discipleship Training School) with YWAM Lausanne, I had no idea of the impact this would have on my relationship with Jesus. I encountered the love of God in such a new way and began to give Him room to truly be Lord over my entire life. Not only did He give me a passion for discipleship, but He also began to reveal to me how to bring the ministry of the Gospel into the coffee industry. I first witnessed this in Switzerland, then later on outreach in Spain and Morocco. I kid you not, one of the biggest churches in Lausanne, Switzerland opened a coffee shop downtown during my DTS called "le Madeleine."

I came home to Tennessee curious how to blend my passion for discipleship with the coffee industry, and after following the Lord to Boise, Idaho in 2022 and staffing Mission Adventures last summer, He crossed my path with the opportunity to join the YWAM PDX staff as the Lost + Found Coffee intern in January 2024! After a year of gaining vocational and ministry skills while pioneering what we call Missional Living Communities here at YWAM PDX, God has invited me to continue what He’s started here in Portland. I will be staffing our brand new Apprenticeship Program as I continue to help launch our Kingdom-focused coffee roasting business.

I am so incredibly honored and excited to continue on this wild journey with the Lord, and I am overjoyed to share more with you! I invite you to prayerfully consider the critical part you have to play here in what the Lord is doing in the city of Portland, whether that be through prayer, encouragement or financial support. By joining this movement through your generosity, you are empowering YWAM PDX staff to extend spiritual discipleship and vocational mentorship to a starving generation of young people living in one of the most spiritually dark cities in America.

Will you consider partnering with me to see the next generation transformed by the love of God and launched into missional living right here in the city of Portland?

Thank you dearly.

Love, Madeline