Shop with a Purpose
November 14th | 10:00am-2:00pm | Highlands Church
Join us for Shop with a Purpose, a Christmas Boutique where every dollar spent supports artisans around the world who are overcoming poverty, exploitation, and difficult life circumstances such as trafficking and widowhood. Each purchase helps provide safe, dignified work and brings hope to communities globally. Come shop for someone you love while making a difference in someone else’s life.
About the Vendors
Shop with a Mission
Shop with a Mission is the retail brand of Heavenly Treasures. Over the past 28 years, they have supported talented artisans in developing countries. Among these people include the impoverished, orphans, widows, disenfranchised, disabled and those socially marginalized. Talented people all over the world make beautiful handcrafted items but may not have the opportunity to distribute their products and have a livelihood. Heavenly treasures currently works in Kenya, Thailand, the Philippines, Guatemala, China, the Middle East, India and more. 100% of all sale proceeds benefit the artisans. This is how they share God's love in a practical way.
Redemption Market
Redemption Market is a social impact shop based in Phoenix, Arizona, curating fair trade, ethically made, and sustainably sourced products that create meaningful change. The brands we partner with support survivors of human trafficking, provide dignified employment and fair wages, and invest in community development among marginalized communities in India and across Asia. Every purchase helps women experience freedom, build independence, and develop sustainable careers while creating opportunities for lasting transformation.
Shop Refugee
Shop Refugee is a training program for refugee women in the Phoenix valley, we teach sewing skills and make everyday products that we sell in our shop, online and at markets. All of our supplies are donated and because of this we are able to pay the seamstress 95% of the purchase price. Every item is upcycled and unique as the woman that made it.
Chances for Children
Zel Haiti was born out of the idea that skill development and employment addresses the needs of families before they are at the point of desperation, driven to place their children in a children’s home because of extreme poverty. The goal for the Women’s Empowerment programs: Zel Haiti and the Microloan programs are to create dignified jobs for Haitian women so that they are able to provide for their families and keep healthy families together.
The White Rainbow Project
The White Rainbow Project shares the love of Jesus while bringing hope, dignity, and opportunity to widows and at-risk women in India. Through vocational training, employment opportunities, medical care, and a compassionate community, women are empowered to build sustainable futures and regain confidence and independence. Since opening its first center in Vrindavan in 2012, White Rainbow has partnered with communities across India to transform lives, strengthen families, and restore hope for generations.
Tamar Center
Tamar's Mission is to reach out to women working in prostitution by inviting them into a safe environment where they can be introduced to God's love; receive inner healing, counseling, and discipleship; have vocational job and life training; and receive help supporting their children and families. Tamar cooperates with government, non-government organizations and churches to extend the help that is offered to the women and their families.
Malia Designs
Malia Designs was formed in 2005 to increase economic opportunity for women in Cambodia and to support organizations that fight human trafficking in Southeast Asia. Our fair trade accessories are made by small social enterprises that employ talented artisans in Cambodia. Through these partnerships we connect our maker partners to Western markets, expanding their access to sustainable income and safe and dignified working conditions.
Highlands Special Needs Giving Tree
Choose an ornament from the Highlands Special Needs Giving Tree and help make a difference in the lives of individuals and families in our Special Needs Ministry. Each ornament includes a gift tag with instructions for how you can give, and the ornament is yours to keep. Every ornament was created by our Special Needs Ministry as a special reminder of the ways we can love and serve others.