Mission Gifts Fair Trade Store

03/03/2022

Creating is critical in healing and justice. Making crafts settles our bodies and minds, so we can listen and talk. Sharing stories over a beading project feels more like friendly chatter instead of a high-stakes, “tell your story” moment in a formal setting sure to evoke stress.

When we can sit and know that we have five hundred more beads to string to make our creation, the stories feel comforting and help pass the time.

When you have three hours to create something, fear subsides and memories surface. You don’t even have to tell your story in chronological order. You can tell snippets of memories that surface and are released.

02/24/2017

Last Days Sale! For those of you always coveting our Displays that have never been for sale, now they ARE! Amazing things, stop by ASAP

02/24/2017

LAST 2 days of shopping! Friday & Sat Feb 24 & 25. Noon till Late. GREAT DEALS on everything. Easels, hardware, glassware, gifts, Art, lamps, mannequins, jewelry, cards, bamboo, wrapping paper, handmade paper pieces, unusual items. No sales tax. Free parking in the Loading Zone in front of our store.

01/22/2017

So wonderful to have the Rubinstein family come by and buy things that will live on in their business, Everglades Treats. They shared memories of making their first sale in our place! And how we even helped with coming up with their brand name. Hila is a wild forager and makes food from local edibles. Find them at TreeHuggers Market for some very rare treats! And stop by our Closing Sale, this weekend and next Fri-Sunday, 1-6pm, to find your own treasures

01/18/2017

Here's the remaining XSProject bags. These are the "Kitchen Sink" model, except for the pink one which is a larger more complex computer bag. Designed by artist Ann Wizer, these products are made by the garbage dump community in Jakarta Indonesia. The recycled single use plastic packaging are sewn into traditional patterns that are reminiscent of loom weaving. Very heavy duty, well stitched and suitable for laptop computers, books, or an everyday "Kitchen Sink" bag that carries everything! Regular retail price: $75. This week: $40. Mail orders, add $5.

01/18/2017

We have less than 50 of the popular HANDMADE PAPER GIFT BAGS left, with bamboo handles. Made by Village Handcrafters, brainchild of Ed & Janet Landry, missionaries amongst the poor of the Philippines. A variety of colors. These are no longer being produced, so these are the last. $7.50. (happy customer Chloe featured!)

Chloe Lyon at Mission Gifts today, telling us her family has had this gift bag for a few years and keeps re-gifting...forcing the recepient to return the bag to the giver and just keep the contents!

01/15/2017

Say GOODBYE to Mission Gifts! After 27 years, we are closing our doors and retiring the brand. If you'd like to stock up on super special gifts for all your giving needs in the near future, give us a holler. Organic, recycled, made with LOVE. 954-592-6021. We also ship orders. Lots of good deals.

10/28/2016

We sell these wonderful products at Mission Gifts Fair Trade Store. Be sure to buy them as your Christmas gifts this year. Make an appointment to stop by, supplies are limited. You can also order from their website. Congratuations Rev.Becca Stevens!

09/26/2016

"A Thai woman found NightLight after searching the neighborhood for the "women who make jewelry." She was desperate to leave the bars and find alternative employment. She can now breathe a sigh of relief. She has been hired!" --Annie of Nightlight International. Stop by Mission Gifts and purchase some of the last of the beautiful Jewelry from NightLight that we will have! It's gorgeous! Call to arrange a time. 954-592-6021

06/13/2016

Farmer friends, I have the best job in the world. I get to spend all day surrounded by positivity, by thousands of , by YOU. I get to have daily conversations about the transformative truth that , and I get to tell you about the products we make and the successes we share. That is the good life, friends

But I honestly haven't known what to do with the recent news of a dad referring to his son's alleged r**e of an unconscious woman as getting some "action." Or the largest mass shooting in modern history. Or the countless other acts of violence we've grown accustomed to seeing on the news.

I have lists of things that I want to share with you, product and building updates, enough good news to last forever, but today I'm tired all the way into my soul. Thank you, dear ones, for reminding ME that love does indeed heal, even when we are barely strong enough to hold on to it's truth. Thanks for the photos of Thistle Farms candles at vigils in Florida and t-shirts at services in Missouri. Thanks for teaching me, all over again, that love is stronger than any other force in this world. -Stacye

Photo by Robin Haines Merrill

Thistle Stop Cafe Thistle Farms Global Becca Stevens Magdalene SaintLouis Magdalene House of Charleston Dismas House of Nashville Thistle & Bee Enterprises The Tennessean The Pride Center Nashville Sexual Assault Center

12/11/2015

Don't forget, all your Holiday Shopping & Christmas Cards at Mission Gifts! Call for our hours! 954-592-6021