Tuesday Testimonial: Samantha Ebert

 Happy National Coffee Day! This should be an official holiday for the Lutheran Church 😊. 

If it weren’t for the Boston Tea Party in 1773, Americans may never have swapped tea for coffee. When the colonies revolted against King George III’s hefty tea tax, tea was out and coffee was in. Things really started to percolate in the mid 1800s when brothers John and Charles Arbuckle started selling coffee to cowboys in the American West. James Folger successfully introduced coffee to gold miners in California. Upon returning to San Francisco in 1865, Folger became a full partner of The Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills — which eventually became the J.A. Folger & Co. in 1872.

Other brands including Maxwell House and Hills Brothers soon entered the coffee market. A yearning for “specialty” coffee took hold in the 1960s. PEET’s began offering a variety of coffee in 1966, and a little Seattle company called Starbucks changed everything in 1971. Today the U.S. coffee shop market has grown to a $45.4 billion industry, according to Allegra World Coffee Portal’s 2019 Project Café USA report. Dry coffee sales topped $9 billion in 2017 in the U.S.

So, if you've had your first cup, it's on to our Tuesday testimonial... Samantha Ebert.

Samantha Ebert is a Canadian Christian singer and songwriter. Ebert began writing songs in 2015 and later started sharing her music on social media. In 2024, she independently released her third single "Flowers". The song later charted on Billboard's Christian Airplay chart and amassed over 60 million global streams.

Eberts follow up single "Overthinking" amassed over 10 million streams. She later released "No One Knows". "Forty One" and "Questions".

Her music is characterized by faith-centered themes of perseverance, waiting, and trust, and draws from her experience with illness.

In 2025, Ebert received two K-LOVE Fan Awards nominations, including Breakout Single of the Year for "Flowers" and Female Artist of the Year.

Here is her testimonial...

Here is her hit song, "Flowers"...