Alternative Holiday Gift Fair at Grace UMC

11/10/2024

Thank you everyone who helped make this year's fair another success!

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10/24/2024

Support the Bake Sale Nov. 9 from 10-2 at Lansing Grace UMC Alternative Holiday Fair. Bake sale will support South Lansing Ministry Food Pantry

10/24/2024

Nov. 9 from 10-2 at Grace UMC, 1900 Boston Blvd., Lansing - Viva Fair Trade is a fair trade business that puts the support of artisans in the developing world front and center. They sell handmade goods such as jewelry, baskets, home décor and more made by artisans who are compensated fairly. Products come from all over the world, but with a particular focus on items from Mexico and Central America.

10/15/2024

Come Saturday, Nov. 9 from 10-2 to Grace UMC and see, among other groups, HAPI – Haitian Assets for Peace International, which aims to transform Haiti through the empowerment and advocacy of women by breaking the cycle of poverty, maternal and infant mortality and broken family systems. Cards and other crafts made in the mountainous village of Mizak are then sold to help secure health, education, dignity and hope in what is often harsh and demanding primitive living.

10/14/2024

HEALING HANDS NICARAGUA - Before the unrest of the past several years, several times a year Teresa Miller had taken medical teams into local villages of extreme poverty. Working alongside a local physician and local pastors, patients receive spiritual counseling as well as some assistance with their physical needs. Sometimes there are local clinics, but the patients cannot afford the medications prescribed or oftentimes, the bus fare to get to the clinics. Teresa brings back items produced by the people of Nicaragua including wooden items and pottery. The proceeds from selling these items goes to buying more medicines or to support a nutritional program.

10/11/2024

Global Gifts Fair Trade Store, since 1986, has been the only non-profit fair trade store in Grand Rapids, organized and staffed by dedicated volunteers. It is dedicated to supporting a just and sustainable economic system through the sale of Fair Trade products, which ensures fair wages for artisan products and crafts. Carrying a variety of nativities, baskets, jewelry, home decor, children's toys and more from over 40 countries, Global Gifts, through your purchases, is able to ensure a living wage to artisans in developing countries, providing access to education and healthcare in addition to basic living needs.

10/10/2024

Co-op of Mayan Women of Guatemala – was started by women who decades ago hosted seriously ill children brought to the United States for medical care not available in their country, One of these children now brings items made by artisans in Guatemala to sell here to raise money for more children back in Guatemala to receive necessary surgeries.

10/09/2024

Come see - Amani Africa – Amani is Swahili for “peace from above” – based in Tennessee, Amani Africa is a Christian based organization which empowers refugee women from war torn countries by teaching them to make jewelry and other fair trade items made in Liberia, Kenya and Uganda

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10/22/2023

6 more days until the Alternative Fair - this year's will be our biggest yet! 10-2 at Grace UMC 1900 Boston Blvd., Lansing

10/07/2023

In three weeks, Oct. 28, 2023 from 10-2 at Grace UMC, 1900 Boston Blvd., Lansing, MI come and shop for unique jewelry and other crafts by artisans from Women At Risk, Intl., Global Gifts and Viva Fair Trade Stores, Better Way Designs, Hope Against Trafficking, Hmong Needlework, SakSaum, Nyaka Aids Orphans Project, Trades of Hope, Mayan Women of Guatemala, Detroit Cass Community, Michigan Abolitionist Project, Solar Circle & more.