Martin Coffeehouse
Located in historic downtown Martin, this coffee shop is comfortable and inviting. With the recent addition of the Lindell Street Bakery in the same building, this spot is great for a casual brunch with friends. Try the Good Morning Martin Muffin or a breakfast burrito. Also, don’t miss out on the specialty lattes, mochas and macchiatos. All of the coffee is organic and fair trade-certified, and 10 cents from every cup sold goes to support literacy projects in Kenya and Nepal. If coffee isn’t your thing, don’t worry. The coffeehouse also offers hot cocoa, four types of lemonade and imported Nepali teas.
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LOCAL BUSINESS, GLOBAL IMPACT
There’s something new and different in Martin, though—a business with big aspirations, set up to assist both the local and global community. When you turn down Lindell Street, you’ll be greeted by free roadside parking and one of the most productive businesses you’ll ever run across in West Tennessee: locally-owned Martin Coffeehouse.
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John Sellers has seen the world, and he wants to change it.
Early on, his world was mostly confined to West Tennessee— Henderson, Lexington, Jackson and Brownsville—within which his parents, Chad and Sandy Sellers, periodically relocated in their work with the Baptist Church. Then, at the age of 19, Sellers joined his parents after the family moved to Nepal to work as Christian missionaries.
After spending a year getting to know Nepal, Sellers, now 24, returned to West Tennessee and enrolled at Jackson State Community College. Having been home schooled up to that point, college classes brought him into a classroom for the first time, but his heart was still in Nepal. By the time he arrived at the University of Tennessee at Martin, Sellers had a dream and a plan to engage his fellow students in fulfilling it.
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How the Small Business Bailout Failed the People It Meant to Help
Many independent businesses were blocked from getting money thanks to a broken website and insufficient funding from Congress. Now they may close for good.
John and Courtney Sellers didn't think they would become coffee shop owners when they bought a century-old building in the picturesque downtown of Martin, their town of about 11,000, in West Tennessee. They originally wanted a storefront for their marketing and branding business, and they had fallen in love with the structure's elegant blue exterior. Then they began thinking of ways to raise money to fund literacy efforts in Nepal, where John used to live, and settled on selling coffee, with a portion of the proceeds going toward charity. But Martin's Coffee and Bakery took off after opening in 2017, and "took over our lives," John said. They soon had a successful business with 16 employees; in its first year, the coffeehouse raised enough money for the Sellers' nonprofit to build a library in Nepal.
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City of Martin demands small business take down their lights.
MARTIN, TN — String lights at a local coffee shop are stirring up heated discussion.
The Historic Zoning Commission in Martin, Tennessee, says they've got to go.
John Sellers opened up Martin's Coffee and Bakery in 2017. The business turns its string lights on at night, to brighten up the shop.
"We're just proud of what these lights have allowed us to be," Sellers said. "It's a safety concern. A lot our our customers have expressed that when the lights are off, they don't feel safe going outside. Also it brings business to our downtown."
It's in a Historic Zoning District. These areas preserve the historical value of buildings.
The lights had to be turned off, because the Historic Zoning Committee says they don't meet these guidelines as to what a historic district should look like.
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