Every year, Lakewood UCC offers our Alternative Gift Market before and service in December. This is a wonderful way to support local and global non-profits and make your giving go further as you do your holiday shopping. We normally have goods from AfricAid, Church World Service, Earth Links, Heifer International, Incredible Edibles, SERRV, and The Gathering Place…. Well this year, things may look a little different, but we still are very excited to offer ways to still support all the causes you love while checking off your holiday shopping checklist!
See below for descriptions of and direct links to shop for all the incredible causes we have the opportunity to help support this year!
SERRV
SERRV provides a vast catalog of international gifts, jewelry, scarves, spices and coffees, and Christmas items. Dedicated to fighting poverty through fair trade since 1949, SERRV International works with nearly 8,000 artisans and farmers in 24 countries to bring you the world’s most beautiful handcrafts.
Buying SERRV products through the above link gives back to both Lakewood UCC and SERRV International!
EarthLinks
EarthLinks is a social-enterprise nonprofit located in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver that creates Earth-centered programming for people experiencing homelessness and economic poverty. EarthLinks program participants are given a safe, peaceful space to foster empowerment, resilience, and collectivity while also sustaining the planet.
Click HERE to shop EarthLinks!
Heifer International
Heifer International works in 21 countries around the world alongside local farmers and business owners. They support farmers and their communities as they mobilize and envision their futures, provide training so they can improve the quantity and quality of the goods they produce, and connections to market to increase sales and incomes.
Clich HERE to shop Heifer International!
Women’s Bean Project
Women’s Bean Project is a nonprofit social enterprise that has a food manufacturing business tied directly to its transitional employment program. One cannot exist without the other. They believe all women have the power to transform their lives through employment. So Women’s Bean Project hires women who are chronically unemployed and teaches them to work making nourishing products that are sold across the U.S. Through their work at Women’s Bean Project, women learn to stand tall, find their purpose and break the cycle of poverty. Because when you change a woman’s life, you change her family’s life.
Click HERE to shop Women’s Bean Project!
Global Ministries
Global Ministries is a joint witness in mission between the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. Their mission is to receive and share the good news of Jesus Christ by joining with global and local partners to work for justice, reconciliation, and peace.
Click HERE to shop Global Ministries!
Re-Member & Oglala Lakota Arts
Guided by the aspirations of the Oglala Lakota Indian communities they serve, Re-Member seeks to improve the quality of reservation life through relationships, shared resources, and volunteer services. Through site visits and cultural immersion, they continue to develop a growing circle of advocates standing in solidarity with the Indian people of Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
Click HERE to Shop Re-Member & Oglala Lakota Arts!
Church World Service
Church World Service is a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement, and disaster. They have one goal: building a world where there is enough for all.
