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Mission: Founded in 2015, the mustard seed seeks to assist abuse survivors through educating our community of the resources available to help recover as well as charaitable contributions to organizations that offer recovery support.
Programs: Brick & mortat store front - mustard seed's store front had 14,142 customers and 11,150 donors serviced in 2017. Each one of those customers and donors were opportunities to educate and talk about the mission which is to connect survivors of abuse to the resources needed to recover from those wounds, emotional, physical and spiritual. The educational component of our mission is extremely important and it sets the stage for a safe and acceptable place for our community to reach out for the help that they did not know was available to them. Because the topic of abuse is talked about regularly in the store, we are chipping away at the stigma of silence that often follows a survivor of abuse and prevents them from receiving healing.
benevolence - mustard seed was the point of contact for 111 service referrals to survivors of abuse to soar and new hope services. These are agencies that help survivors of abuse receive the help and resources needed to recover from abuse. We contributed 13,336. 32 to soar ministries in cash grant/donation.
education - the mustard seed partnered with new albany floyd county school system, christian academy of indiana, new hope services, and numerous churches to provide volunteer opportunities for our community. Educational opportunities for the mustard seed to teach each volunteer about our mission and how to direct people who have sufferes through abuse to needed resources were also provided. We completed 5 speaking engagements at local events about our mission, abuse, and resources available.