The Shepherd's Door

The Shepherd's Door is more than just a Christian store: it also serves as a neighborhood resource as well as a vehicle for funding a wide variety of local, regional and global ministries. The Shepherd's Door serves the North Boroughs and beyond through three main platforms: Revenue Sharing, Product Sales, and Community Services.

Revenue Sharing

Each month, The Shepherd's Door Board shows its support for ministries by directing a percentage of monthly sales to churches and non-profit organizations that exemplify and promote the transforming value of the Gospel of Christ in the lives of individuals they serve, and the communities in which they live.

The Shepherd's Door directed 5% of its sales to local ministries such as Assumption School, North Hills Community Outreach, Genesis House, Holy Family Institute, His Place and The DoorWay ministries. A full list of all the ministries The Shepherd's Door has supported can be viewed here.

Product Sales

In addition to directing a portion of its revenues to various ministries, The Shepherd's Door carries merchandize whose profits promote fair trade, spread the Gospel, and aid in revitalizing underdeveloped communities around the world. One of the products that Shepherd's Door carries is Ugandan Gold Coffee:

The Christian East African and Equatorial Development Trust (CEED), is a non-profit organization committed to developing and maintaining sustainable, income-generating projects in poverty-stricken areas of the world. CEED chose the Bunyoro-Kitara region of Uganda in which to launch its first project - a coffee farm. Coffee is by far the largest export commodity Uganda, but most coffee growers still live in poverty because of poor technology (e.g., little or no effective irrigation) and dependence on middlemen to sell their products.

Every dollar in excess of the cost to grow, ship, process, package and market the coffee is returned to Uganda to be plowed back into the economy to assist in improving the lot of the people at the ground level. No huge overhead, no corruption raking off dollars, just money and programs going directly to the people in the Wambabya region most in need.

We would encourage you to visit their web site at ugandangold.com where you can learn more about CEED, purchase coffee and even watch a video presentation of the history of Ugandan Gold.

For information about getting your ministry related product included in our inventory please contact Kelly Hill at kelly@theshepherdsdoor.org

Community Services

The Shepherd's Door makes its bookstore meeting space available for a wide variety of community oriented services and events. These include but are not limited to: After school activities and tutoring, life skill classes, blood pressure screenings and other senior health care services, art exhibits and concerts, and Christian oriented gatherings, prayer groups, and Bible studies.

If your church or organization would like to utilize the meeting space at The Shepherd’s Door, please contact the Manager, Kelly Hill at 412-761-4310 or email Kelly@theshepherdsdoor.org to receive information about holding your group event at the store.