CIRI employees are invited to help serve lunch at Bean’s Café on Wednesday, Jan. 7 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Please contact Danielle Larsen, dlarsen@ciri.com or 263-5543 for details if you are available to help serve.
Bean’s Café Mission
“The underlying premise of Bean’s Café is a deep belief in the inherent dignity of every person, a belief that people respond with kindness when treated kindly, with trust when trusted, and respectfully when respected. Our aim is not to set up a value system – determining what is right or wrong – or a way of life for persons, but to allow them to form their own. In this situation a person is not pressured into acting in a special way, and their eventual response is free, lasting, and more fully themselves”. (Copied from the original proposal to organize Bean’s Café – 1979).
Visit www.beanscafe.org to learn more about Bean’s Café.
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
–Leo Buscaglia
