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...called
to equip God's People for Unity.
 Blake
Coffee is the founder and Executive Director of Christian
Unity Ministries. A Christian author and speaker, he is
called to a ministry of training and equipping the Body of Christ
toward unity. Also a practicing attorney, his law/mediation
practice is in San Antonio, Texas, but his ministry of reconciliation
and unity spans the globe.
For more than a decade,
God has given Coffee a message for the church about interpersonal
relationships. In need of a simple Bible Study to use
as a teaching tool in his work with congregations, he wrote
Five Principles of Unity and self-published
it for that limited purpose. In just a few years, almost
completely by word-of-mouth, that material made its way into
churches all across America and around the world. Already
in its third english language edition and also published in
3 other languages, over 15,000 copies have been sold and thousands
of other copies given away.
Having
directed Blake to a ministry of reconciliation in local churches,
God has given him both a passion and a message for unity in the
Body of Christ. He has worked with hundreds of congregations,
both healthy and conflicted, teaching Biblical models of reconciliation.
Blake is also the author of "Trusting God's People...Again"
(VMI Publishers, 2007) and
“One Body: Experiencing Unity in the Church”
(Texas Baptist Leadership Center, 1999--published both as a book
and a video seminar).
Coffee
is a 1982 Cum Laude graduate of Texas Tech University and a 1985
graduate of the Texas Tech School of Law. A member of the National
Order of Barristers, Blake then sharpened his litigation skills
as a courtroom litigator with the Austin law firm of Wright &
Greenhill until April, 1995.
As
a part of Blake's testimony he
describes a sense of God’s call to a broader ministry.
Blake left his partnership in 1995 and developed his own mediation
practice. At the same time, he began to develop a ministry of
congregational intervention—a ministry which has grown into
what is now Christian Unity Ministries. In addition to these responsibilities,
Blake still practices law and is Of Counsel to the San Antonio
law firm of Shelton & Valadez, P.C.
Coffee is married to Kappie and they have two
daughters. He currently serves as a deacon and Bible teacher at
San Antonio’s First Baptist Church.
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