18th February 2026

In Ethiopia, where 4 million households rely on coffee bean production for their livelihoods, coffee producers are already seeing the impact of extreme heat resulting from climate change. According to the findings of Climate Central in a recently released analysis the largest five coffee-growing countries, who are responsible for 75% of the world’s supply, experienced on average 57 additional days of coffee-harming heat annually because of the climate crisis, suggested the countries where coffee beans are grown are becoming too hot to cultivate them because of climate breakdown. According to the World Bank, the prices of arabica and robusta coffee beans almost doubled from 2023 to 2025. In February 2025, coffee prices reached an all-time high. Dejene Dadi, the general manager of Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union (OCFCU), a smallholder cooperative in Ethiopia said, “To safeguard coffee supplies, governments need to act on climate change.” Smallholder farmers produce 60% to 80% of coffee, but received just 0.36% of the funds needed to adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis in 2021.  Earlier this week, Maarten van Aalst, a member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC), said that Europe was already “paying a price” for its lack of preparation for global warming. The ESABCC, rather than demanding climate action simply urged countries to prepare for a catastrophic 3C of global heating. 

Creator God, forgive us that we take little care of your creation.  We have known about, yet have continue to ignore global warming for decades. We are seeing the impact upon poor coffee producers across the world and yet wealth Europe simply wants to mitigate the impact of rising temperatures and extreme, violent weather.   We pray for your help to change our ways.  Grant us courage to speak for the voiceless — the rivers, the skies, the creatures in peril. Inspire  national leaders to act with urgency that future generations may inherit a world where the beauty of creation still sings your praise, the trees of the field clap their hand and all may go with joy.  In Jesus name we pray.  Amen.

You can Read Climate Central's report on the impact of climate change on coffee producers here.

In Springfield Park in the Springfield Gardens neighbourhood of New York, fourteen-year-old Alex Smith saw a young boy struggling on in the ice of a pond.  Alex immediately sprang into action. “I was like ‘oh my God, oh my God, I need to go help him,’” Smith said. “The first thing I jumped to was help him — I didn’t even call the police or nothing, I just instantly ran to help him,” Alex said. He saw a nearby safety ladder, grabbed it, and slid it across the ice toward the boy, whose head was barely above the freezing water. Alexis fast thinking helped the child stay afloat until help arrived. After some children had run to the fire station to raise the alarm, firefighters rushed to the scene. Probationary firefighter Shaun McMahon ventured out onto the ice wearing a cold-water suit—but then the ice broke beneath him. With the help of about a dozen firefighters and a rope the boy was pulled safely back to shore. An ambulance had arrived and the boy was wrapped in blankets to prevent hypothermia having spent around ten minutes in the icy water, clinging to the ice to stay afloat. Alex's actions helped buy precious time. “They told me if I hadn't done what I did, he wouldn't have been able to stay afloat and he would have drowned” Alex said.

Psalm 92:1-5 and Psalm 89:14 (NIV)

It is good to praise the Lord

and make music to your name, O Most High,

proclaiming your love in the morning

and your faithfulness at night,

to the music of the ten-stringed lyre

and the melody of the harp.

For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord;

I sing for joy at what your hands have done.

How great are your works, Lord,

how profound your thoughts!

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;

love and faithfulness go before you.