Alex- U got owned, no comeback whatsover.

Mercy ministries needs to stop preying on vulnurable young women and filling thier heads with whacky ideas. They’d be better off without you.

And to suggest that Mr Saleh, in his roles as an Elder of the Hillsong Church and as Chairman of the Board / Co-Founder / significant shareholder of Jireh International Pty Ltd, the company that holds the right to franchise Gloria Jean’s Coffees in Australia and other countries, had zero influence on the company’s promotion and support of Mercy Ministries, a favoured group of Hillsong’s, stretches the credibility of your argument. Your assertion that the business has no relationship with Hillsong is mere semantics. If you were a public company I would be requesting a copy of the minutes of the Board meetings where the decision was made. Did Mr Saleh abstain from the vote and preceding discussion about Mercy because of a conflict of interest?

While Jireh is a privately owned company and can do whatever it likes with its profits, we, your customers, also can choose not to support you with our dollars if we know you use them in part to support dangerous, misguided organizations such as Mercy Ministries and if we know that your Founders are using the wealth they are creating with the stores to personally support a fundamentalist religious organization many of us feel is also dangerous and misguided.

Let me put it this way. If “John Smith” the Chairman and a shareholder of “ABC Supermarket” is a member of the Catholic Church and makes a personal donation to the church then does this means that the “ABC Supermarket” has a relationship as a benefactor or has the same beliefs as the Catholic Church? I don’t think so.

If someone chooses to give to or take a lead role in their church, or any other charity, that is their personal choice and is separate to how they conduct their business life. If you are a religious person, I’m sure you don’t bring your religion to work. That’s why we believe and stand by our view that Gloria Jean’s Coffees as a company has no relationship with Hillsong Church.