For more than two years, Colorado’s Christian Coffee Shop was established to support the homeless with vocational training and social mobility.
Jamie Sanchez, owner of Drip Cafe, a Christian Coffee Shop run through the non-profit Recycle God’s Love, joined CBN News to provide updates on these monthly protests.
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Rather than confronting the protesters who gather outside the coffee shop on the first Friday of each month, Sanchez said he and other followers came up with a strong response: worship.
“We’ve experienced a complete progression in how we want to respond to this situation, and that’s exactly the key. We were responding,” he said. “And that was what they wanted, and we realised.
Sanchez continued. “What we did shifted our focus from actually trying to respond to them to worship God.”
Therefore, on the first Friday of each month, Drip Café partners with local worship leaders to host live worship nights, primarily blowing away songs.
“We have our doors open wide, we worship the Lord, and that music flows through the streets,” he said. “And honestly, I forget they are there until I get out of the cafe and they scream in my face and call me by name.
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Sanchez said the fruit is incredible as a result of changing praise from being responsive to praise. In fact, the ministry sees life changing throughout the evening of worship, and individuals who know nothing about the ongoing protest know that they will come across stores and connect with the Lord.
“To be honest, it’s happening in a protest,” he said. “All of this is happening to praise God, as the enemy has tried some tricks.
Sanchez is a standing room only, as the building is sometimes packed with people whom people worship. This is a creative response to a protest that has been going on for over two years and shows no signs of slowing down.
Ultimately, Sanchez said he knew the fight wasn’t just a temporary issue.
“One thing that we all really need to realize…it’s beyond me, it’s beyond drip coffee shops, it’s beyond my ministry,” he said. “It’s beyond everything, it’s beyond them. It’s spiritual, and… there’s a spiritual battle going on there.”
Regardless of the pushback, Sanchez said Drip Café was able to survive on its mission to help the homeless find employment and become apprentices.
“We were able to do something pretty amazing beyond what we had hoped for in our homeless community,” Sanchez said. “The individuals passing by are disciples.”
He continued. “And beyond that, we’re just looking… we have customers who are coming to coffee shops that are having a tough time… We can pray for them, we can bless them, we can lift them, and it’s happening every day…”
Sanchez said he knew he was called to continue the drip cafe, even at a fierce personal cost. As previously reported, people began gathering outside the store in June 2023, screaming and aiming for the outcome of the ministry’s labor.
A statement affirming biblical sexuality on the Recycle God Love website reportedly served as a catalyst for the protest that began at the time. The original statement read:
Homosexuality: The organization opposes homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle. Furthermore, the organization believes that homosexual lifestyles are contrary to God’s Word and purpose towards humanity (I Timothy 1:10). The Bible instructs that it is a sin that leads to death. Furthermore, the organization is instructed to love people living such a lifestyle. 1 cor. 6:9 says: “Don’t you know that the evil ones will not inherit God’s kingdom? Don’t be deceived. They are neither sexual immorality nor idolaters, nor male prostitutes, nor gay criminals.” Church members are forbidden from practicing such sins. Members who are found to be sinful and unrepentant will be subject to dismissal.
Sanchez said that the cafe changed language shortly after it opened, changing the ministry’s intentions about love and truth more easily. You can read new language here.
Posting on the Denver Communist Facebook page calls for protests against the cafe. According to Sanchez, the goal was to close the cafe, but so far it has been useless.
“Their goal is very clear. It’s on their site. It’s on their poster,” Sanchez said in a previous interview. “They want to shut us down.”
He said these protesters claim that the cafe hates gay people and is trying to exploit the homeless.
“They are standing outside with blow horns and they are screaming,” he said. “When customers try to walk through the door, a normal person trying to come in, they scream at blowhorns and say, “Don’t go there! Don’t go there! It literally scares you even want to come to a cafe.”
On July 5, 2025, the post posted on the Denver Communist Party’s Facebook page shared photos and declared that the group continued to protest against the “homophobic coffee shop.”
“I saw the drip closed when I arrived at the setup!” I read partially the post. “Unfortunately, they were celebrating a vulgar holiday, so just for that day we were able to take advantage of the lack of eccentrics and talk to the crowd about art walks. We receive unanimous support from passersby and let them know that the people who run the shop are the type of person who feel they have something to celebrate about this sh*hole country.”
This post concludes by noting that it plans to regain the efforts of “drug abdrip.”
Sanchez, who has a young child, said the ongoing protests are spreading beyond the store. In fact, he was reportedly the subject of personal attacks, including those surrounding his first dead wife.
“They actually attacked me personally and said they were using my deceased wife as a tool to make people feel sorry for me,” he said. “It also confirms how powerful my testimony that Christ gave me throughout my life is. The enemy will try to pull it out and use it as a tool against me.”
Rather than giving up on the Drip Café, Sanchez said he has been ongoing and has been trusting in the Lord throughout the journey and staying focused on the broader mission.
“For me, the cafe is not mine. I really don’t see it as my cafe,” he said. I don’t think we’re recycling the cafe of God’s Love. I think it’s God’s cafe. He gave us it. If he wants to erase it, he will let it disappear. ”
Ultimately, Sanchez said, “God will glory” because of the ability to keep the cafe open despite its chaos.
“If God and Christ’s body are not really supporting us, there’s no way we’re there yet,” he said.
As for the Denver Communists, they told Fox News that their protests against the Drip CafĂ© were concentrated on the organization’s beliefs about sexuality.
“There are many Christian denominations, such as the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), who do not share biased views, and we joined us by pastors and many Christians in the protest,” the group said. “Drip has since doubled into a homophobic position. Jamie and his paranoid coffee shop have no monopoly on Christianity, but he hopes to try and benefit from it.”
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