Reformed Cigars

Exists to glorify God. Linking up ministry and cigars for bi-vocational ministry, we are cultivating relationships, resourcing, equipping, and mobilizing like-minded people passionate about impacting the world for Christ! We believe in the inherent value of God’s people and the communities they live in. We aim to create sustainable livelihoods by helping His people with the resources they need to grow, develop, and flourish.

OUR MISSION

Make high quality cigars to support church planters. Our desire is to constantly and consistently point people to Christ. We are passionate about impacting our families and communities while living missional.

OUR VALUES

Relationship While the quality, consistency, and integrity of our cigars is important, the value we place on the people behind the process exceeds the final product. We aim to steward well the relationships curated during each of the many steps it takes from tobacco plant to cigar knowing full well behind the many hands it takes from start to finish is a person who deserves to be valued.

OUR HISTORY

Ariel and Al’s Lives converged in estelí when al and his family began a bible study in their home in estelí around 2016. we started studying essential things around the centrality of the gospel, which can be very different compared to what most people are accustomed to in the region, such as behavior modification and legalism. we began serving and loving our community together. in 2020 we found we had to pivot as much of the world was not congregating and attending local expressions of the church. ariel and the team proceeded to take the gospel house to house and bring ways to serve those in and around estelí. discipleship was continuing through a different approach and going into further communities.

the prayer was organic in that how can we keep reaching those in and around estelí? with estelí being central to the cigar industry it means there are many cigar factories and many who find work in some way within this context. this was the beginning that we believe god initiated the dream and opportunity to start working with cigars boxes and premium cigars. the dream was two-fold: how can we be a gospel expression within the cigar industry simultaneously generating income through this vision so we can eventually become a self- sustaining ministry. What would it look like to pour back generosity into the community of estelí and beyond through this…and so it began. together ariel and al form a dynamic team of design and craftmanship and share a deep desire to build relationships and community around the gospel, using creative means.