There's something profoundly beautiful, inspiring, and important about a business that exists for more than just profit. A business that engages, inspires, and leads a change in the world. In our specific case, Seven Weeks Coffee has spent this year doing just that and consistently proving that commerce and conscience aren't just compatible, they're powerful when united. As we close out 2025 and look towards our fifth year in business, it's worth pausing to celebrate what happens when people choose to offer support with their dollars for women and families facing unplanned pregnancies.
January: Standing Where It Matters Most —The March For Life
The year began where it should for any pro-life business—at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. While the nation's capital braced against January's cold, the Seven Weeks team joined hundreds of thousands of Americans who refuse to accept that some lives matter less than others and can be disposed of. It's one thing to roast coffee beans that fund pregnancy centers. It's another to show up in person, to stand shoulder to shoulder with the movement and people you serve.
The National Pro-Life Summit that followed offered something equally vital: strategy, community, and hope. These aren't just networking events. They're gatherings of people who understand that protecting the vulnerable requires both conviction and wisdom. This is the patient, difficult, and unglamorous work of building institutional support for women and families.
February: Honoring Dignity from Farm to Cup
In February, Anton took a break from the cold and traveled to the coffee farms in the Dominican Republic. This trip was about honoring dignity at every level of the supply chain, from the farmers who cultivate the beans to the customers who brew the final cup. The focus of this trip was to personally verify that Seven Weeks Coffee beans are organically and ethically produced by farmers with the appropriate wages. A truly pro-life ethic doesn't compartmentalize. It insists that human dignity matters everywhere, in every interaction, in every transaction.
It is worth adding that the farmers we work with in the Dominican Republic are incredibly grateful and happy to know that the profit from the coffee they grow is supporting women in need.
April: Building the Pro-Life Case
The launch of the Seven Weeks Blog brought something rare: a place where the pro-life position gets the intellectual, informative, and empowering treatment it deserves. From the beginning the goal has been to answer questions regarding why we do what we do and how we do it; and now, over 25 articles later this goal has been both achieved and expanded. This blog equips and invites everyone to engage with the hardest questions, to defend life persuasively and compassionately, to navigate cultural conversations that too often generate more heat than light. In an age of sound bites and slogans, this long form and carefully throughout content matters more than ever. Thank you for reading all along!
June: Three Years of The Overturn
There’s no need to specify what was overthrown and the anniversary we are celebrating, but for the sake of proper grammar, this summer marked three years since Roe v. Wade was overturned. For decades, the pro-life movement was told to be patient, to accept incremental gains, to settle for the possible, and to continue to work in grassroots. And then, suddenly, the impossible happened. Three years later, the American legislation reflects what it should have never stopped reflecting —life matters and must be protected from the moment of conception.
The overturn importantly marks a cultural change and with it, women are finding more support instead of pressure. The work continues, but the celebration was warranted, because sometimes you need to acknowledge that history can bend towards justice.
July: A Million-Dollar Milestone and a Miracle
July brought two announcements that capture everything Seven Weeks Coffee stands for.
First: $1 million in donations to pregnancy centers and pro-life organizations. One million dollars translates to ultrasounds and diapers and counseling. It means women who chose life because they had support and holistic medical care. It means families growing with the love and care they deserve.
And then, in a moment of perfect symmetry, our founder and CEO Anton and his wife Christa welcomed their first baby, a boy named Peter. This is what it all comes down to: welcoming children into the world. Peter's arrival reminds us that the movement isn't ultimately about winning political or intellectual arguments. It's about creating a joyful space for new life to be welcomed to.
August: Supporting Those on the Front Lines
The Care Net Conference brought Seven Weeks face-to-face with people who do the daily work of serving women and families in crisis; the pregnancy center staff, the volunteers, the counselors who sit with frightened young women and offer hope and resources instead of a quick fix. Supporting these workers isn't just about money. It's about showing up, building relationships, saying: we see what you do, and it matters. These conferences are always an incredible opportunity to meet people working on the field face to face and learn from everyone and their own experiences.
It was also exciting to sell out of coffee and stickers!
October: Celebrating Generous Love
In October we attended Share the Arrows, a conference bringing together people of faith and families who welcome life generously. In a world that treats fertility as a disease to be managed and children as obstacles to self-actualization and success, the message that children are a blessing remains genuinely radical. It's a countercultural vision of human flourishing and it's deeply attractive to people exhausted by promises of happiness that deliver isolation.
November: A Record-Breaking Month
November brought a staggering milestone: $100,000 in donations in a single month. This wasn't one major donor. It was thousands of people choosing Seven Weeks Coffee over countless other options, knowing that their morning brew was doing something meaningful. This is what it looks like when a business gives customers a way to align their daily habits with their deepest values.
December: Looking Towards Our Fifth Year
As we head into 2026, Seven Weeks Coffee will celebrate five years in business. Five years of proving that you can build something beautiful and profitable while refusing to compromise on principle. If any, there is strength in good principles. Five years of supporting women, saving babies, and strengthening families.
In a culture that increasingly views children as optional, Seven Weeks Coffee stands as a quiet but stubborn witness to a different vision. Every bag of coffee is a small act of both charity and resistance. Every dollar donated is a vote for life. Every customer is part of a movement that believes the vulnerable deserve protection and everyone deserves a chance at life.
The work continues, the coffee is delicious, and the mission grows more urgent and more beautiful with each passing year.
Here's to five years and to building something that outlasts all of us.
Because every life matters. Even yours.
