A Message from the owner
Hello friends!!
Welcome to Upper Room Roastery, a Phoenix-local microroastery that began in 2023 during my senior year of high school. My passion for coffee started when a small coffee shop opened right by my family’s home. It was at this coffee shop that I worked my first job and fell in love with the craft of coffee. My dream from from age 16 was to one day open my own coffee shop, so naturally I started running a coffee roasting business out of our backyard right before I graduated high school, yet that was only a portion of what the Lord would call me to.
Upper Room Roastery’s story actually started back in 2010, when I was just 5 years old. This was a year that forever changed the trajectory of my life. My two brothers and I were removed from our biological family and placed into foster care, where we would constantly move from home to home and eventually separate for the next several years. When I was 10 years old, I was placed in the home of the most loving family, who made it their mission to not just tell me, but reflect who Jesus is. Two years later, I was adopted into not only this family, but the family of Christ as well. Jesus gave me a new life physically and spiritually.
Though I had left foster care at age 12, my heart was never removed from it. I witnessed time and time again the struggles of foster youth transitioning from the system to regular adult life, the majority resorting to homelessness, violence, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and many in prison. I watched society look down upon the fate of foster children, yet neglect providing the resources they need to succeed.
From a young age, I felt the Lord place the calling on my heart to devote my life to His Kingdom through serving foster youth. It is because of this that Upper Room Roastery is not simply another coffee company, but a mission field. Until Jesus returns or people stop buying coffee, our mission is to live out James 1:27, caring for the orphans as Christ has cared for us, for me.
Thank you for being a part of this mission, Torryn Hatcher, Founder & CEO of Upper Room Roastery
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27
why upper room?
JOHN 13:1-17
The Upper Room holds beautiful significance throughout Jesus’ ministry and during the early church’s history. During Jesus’ final days, He gathered His disciples in the upper room of a house to share in the Last Supper, a final gathering before his arrest and death. At this point, Jesus knew the suffering He was going to endure for the very people across Him at the table, for the world. Full of love and full of compassion, Jesus stood, walked over to the basin, and began to wash the dirt off the feet of His disciples. The King over all creation humbled himself to this position of a servant and gave Himself so that those He loves could be purified. The Upper Room was a place of gathering, sacrifice, and love in its most genuine form.
At Upper Room Roastery, our heart is in this story. Our mission is to recognize how Jesus washed our own feet, that we have been invited to His table. In response to this, we are now called to invite the world to His table, humbling ourselves and honoring the Lord by serving His people.
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.
John 13:14-15