Cuppa Life is owned and operated by a local church who sold its traditional-style church building to move to a busier part of the city and reconnect with the community. A Life In Christ, formerly Christ the Servant Church of the Brethren, bought Cape Auction Cafe on December 18, 2009. The faith community changed its name, its mission and vision statements, and its worship time and began meeting at the new "church" in February. The congregation's coffee shop outreach and business, Cuppa Life, opened for business on March 22, 2010.

Cuppa Life exists to provide safe and comfortable space for meaningful conversation, for relaxing, for worshiping God, for reading a good book, for surfing the web with Free WiFi, and to be a venue for local Christian musicians, poets, writers, comics, story tellers and other entertainers.

One of the ongoing issues with which A Life In Christ wrestles is the problem of modern-day slavery, human trafficking. A small step Cuppa Life can take in its fight to end slavery is to only serve Fair-Trade Slave-Free coffee and tea. With corruption at every level of the coffee industry, it is important to us that we only serve coffee that was grown, harvested, and transported using workers who were safe at their job and fairly compensated for their labor with reasonable wages.

We think that's why our coffee tastes so good.