WDee
.
Daniel and his wife Rebecca
are two Timpson residents who
work hard to benefit those
in need.
As the owners of Beans & Ice: Gourmet Coffee
and Shaved Ice, the couple opened their coffee
shop specifically to fund mission work not only in
East Texas, but all over the world.
“My wife and I had a vision of combining the
coffee shop and missionary work - and we did,”
says Daniel.
“Not only did we open a coffee shop here
that serves gourmet coffees, pastries, breakfast
sandwiches and different things - but Rebecca and
I don’t make anything from the business,”
says Daniel.
“We pay our three part-time employees and
all of the other proceeds go back into our mission
programs,” he says.
As pastor of First Baptist Church of Timpson,
Daniel has been involved in mission work;
building churches, houses, water wells, and
bringing families and villages food and clothes in
Central America for years now.
“I’ve been doing mission work in Belize for
over 23 years. In those 23 years, we’ve built a lot
of relationships and opened a lot of doors. So we
continue to fund that ministry,” he says.
Daniel says that as a third world country,
the financial hardships in Belize are a lot more
extreme than what we have here.
“I led a little boy,out there, to the Lord when
he was 10, and dozens of others as kids and
adults,” says Daniel. “We had been working in
this village for almost four years. No churches.
People would come in and live in a house that
they don’t own.”
“We would take the village supplies;
toothbrushes, toothpaste, flip-flops, shorts,
deodorants, soaps, things we see as necessities
that they don’t have access to,” he said. “We
would put all these things and more into care
packages and go door-to-door giving out the care
packages with beans and rice.”
“We would take care of their physical needs
as far as hunger, as far as hygiene. But we also
take care of their spiritual needs, by preaching the
Gospel,” Daniel says.
Through four years of ministering the people
in the village, Daniel soon saw they had an entire
community of converts.
“We then knew we needed to build this
village a church,” Daniel says. “We built the body
for the church before we ever built the building.”
Daniel said there are several churches that
participate in the mission work; churches in
Nacogdoches, Gladewater, Tenaha and more.
“I lead at least two mission trips a year down
there. Last year we did two trips and had members
from our church, plus six other churches that went
with us,” he says.
The couple says one major thing the children
and adults in the village look forward to, is
Vacation Bible School.
While the children partake in Vacation Bible
School, Daniel and the missionary team teach to
the parents as well, while they wait for their kids
to finish with their lessons and crafts.
“They love crayons. They love stickers and
coloring pages, just simple crafts. They don’t have
stuff like that,” says Rebecca. “Not only that, the
moms love to sit and color with their kids too.”
Daniel says he requires nine hours of cultural
and gospel training before partaking in the nineday
mission trip in Central America.
“We don’t take away from the culture, we
don’t try and go over there and Westernize
anything,” says Daniel. “We want to respect their
culture. We just want to add the Gospel to what
they already have. So they can see the difference
spiritually while we help them physically.”
“What’s awesome is, we have somebody to
follow up with when we leave the village,” says
Daniel. “It was a long time ago when I led that ten
year-old boy to the Lord. He is now in his thirties
and he is the Pastor of that church we built.”
Through the many years of mission work
in Belize, Dee, Rebecca and the missions have
provided the villagers with necessities of all sorts.
Everything from sewing machines and fabric to
sew new clothes, wells with spouts to have access
to clean water, scholarships to attend schools and
churches to study the Gospel in.
The couple’s mission work will continue on
with the help from their new non-profit coffee
shop.
“We don’t just go do a mission. We provide a
whole life ministry,” says Daniel.
Located at 588 N. 1st street in Timpson, W.
Dee Daniel and Rebecca have made their coffeeshop
funded mission trips come true by opening
Beans & Ice.
AT A GLANCE
WHAT:
Beans & Ice:
Gourmet Coffee
and Shaved Ice
WHO:
Locally owned and
operated by
W. Dee and
Rebecca Daniel
WHERE:
588 N. 1st St.
Timpson, TX 75975
WHEN:
Monday - Friday
6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday
7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
PHONE:
(936) 645-8550
FACEBOOK:
@Beansandice
Business MATTERS | 2020 Fall Edition 21