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Isabella Hoberman has traveled to Guatemala three times on mission trips where she worked with local mission groups and helped with after-school programs, wheelchair ministry, building homes, and delivering water filters and food. She was inspired by a coffee shop called Serve Hope that brought the community together through music, sermons, and prayer while using profits to fund local projects. She now wants to create a similar space for teenagers in the US to build community and deepen faith. She is studying business in college and gaining job experience at a coffee shop to help manage her future mission-based coffee shop business.

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Personal Statement

Isabella Hoberman has traveled to Guatemala three times on mission trips where she worked with local mission groups and helped with after-school programs, wheelchair ministry, building homes, and delivering water filters and food. She was inspired by a coffee shop called Serve Hope that brought the community together through music, sermons, and prayer while using profits to fund local projects. She now wants to create a similar space for teenagers in the US to build community and deepen faith. She is studying business in college and gaining job experience at a coffee shop to help manage her future mission-based coffee shop business.

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Isabella Hoberman: Personal Statement

Over the past three years, I have been fortunate to travel to Guatemala on three separate mission trips.
For all of these trips, our home base was Antiqua, Guatemala. These trips were formative as I was able
to work with several different local mission groups and different people within our team. Our teams
were comprised of Christians, mostly from my home church both adults and students. We worked with
after-school programs in the countryside of Antigua, a wheelchair ministry fitting children for
wheelchairs as well as helping in the factory constructing them. We worked in a team to build and
furnish a house for a family in need and we went to a local middle school to help the kids practice their
English and encourage them. We worked in teams to deliver water filtration systems and deliver food
bags. Each day was new meeting new people, hearing about their lives, praying with them, and
encouraging them. During all three of these trips, our team would frequent a coffee shop named Serve
Hope. This place was special. It served as a place where the community could come together; the shop
had musicians playing Christian worship music and a sermon several nights a week. People from all
cultures visiting Antiqua, as well as locals, would visit the coffee store. The coffee shop has a mission to
use a portion of its profits to build houses like we had built, and also to provide water filters to people in
need. There was a space for prayer in the shop, a conference room, and workstations. These visits
inspired me to want to create a similar-natured safe place for teenagers in the United States that could
be a Christan-run space for intentional community. This desire has led me to work toward gaining a
business management degree and later obtaining a ministry degree.

Currently, I am studying at the State College of Florida to achieve my Associate of Arts in Business while
completing my last two years in high school. I serve as President of the book club at Venice High School
and am a member of Future Business Leaders of America. Through both of these experiences, I have
learned more about leadership and have developed skills that will assist me in my future endeavors. I
have been certified in Photoshop and InDesign which will allow me to effectively market and advertise
my future business. In ministry, I am active in two small groups Bible Studies, and even lead some
meetings. I also am on the production team of my local church and work the cameras for our live-
streamed services. As part of the production team, I also work the slides on the main viewing screen
and manage the stage lights. All of these experiences have helped me to grow my skills in ways that can
advance my future success.

I plan to get a job at a privately owned coffee shop where I can further my skills in brewing and pouring
an array of coffee drinks. I need to deepen my time management and leadership skills to lead a staff and
promote an inspired, team of employees. Additionally, I have investigated obtaining certificates for
barista and coffee sourcing in Guatemala. I would also like to finish my degrees and get further
education with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Ministry. My long-term vision is to
open a mission-based coffee shop in the United States combining my desires to help young people
deepen their faith in an intentional community.

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