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A Vision Trip Journey

You arrive in a quiet watershed, tucked between green hills. The air is rich with the scent of fresh earth, and as you step out, you're welcomed by warm smiles and outstretched hands. Here, change is happening in real-time in front of your eyes. This is the beginning of a Vision Trip with Plant With […]

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How Vision Trips Empower the Next Generation

As the San Diego Regional Representative, I have the pleasure of sharing Plant With Purpose’s story and partnering with local communities as we advocate for rural farming families. Little did I know that this journey would send me tumbling head-over-heels down the remote slopes of rural Dominican Republic (DR)! Before we get into that story, […]

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Vision Trips: Bringing our Work from Head to Heart

The sense of unity in one of my first mission trips was amazing. In the evening our group would gather with our host families and church members in a tiny Costa Rican village. We would share experiences from the day, learn worship songs in Spanish and become acutely aware of all that we had in common. That connection and fellowship, over 30 years ago, was life changing and became one of the key events which led me to work with Plant With Purpose.

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How Vision Trips Impact Local Teams and Families

First of all, I would like to emphasize that when we receive visits from donors or Plant With Purpose staff in Mexico, both the local program team and the participating families feel grateful for the support they’ve given for more than twenty years. Not only are they funding the program and projects, but they are collaborating and praying for the development of our shared vision. These contributions improve the quality of life of groups and communities living in conditions of poverty.

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Visiting Malawi with HOPE International

Collaboration is a central value to our organizational culture. We strongly believe that we have much to learn from those around us in all spheres of our work. In my role as donor engagement specialist, I am responsible for refining our Vision Trips and supporting transformative experiences around the world. In August, I had the joy of traveling to Malawi with HOPE International, a fellow faith-based nonprofit, to gain a different perspective on Vision Trips and deepen collaboration between our two organizations.

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Knitting Hearts & Lives Together

What is an Oaxaca Wahine? A Mexican hula dancer?! Not quite.
An Oaxaca Wahine is a woman with a brave and generous heart who travels to Oaxaca to share, affirm, and work together with women (and men and children) in the Oaxaca program of Plant With Purpose called Mision Integral. She might know how to knit or crochet, she might play an instrument, she might love to play games with children or hold babies, but she goes ready to share whatever special gifts she has.

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A Message from our CEO, Scott Sabin

Dear friends, There are so many things to be thankful for this year, and your unwavering support is one of them. It has made a huge and lasting difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in eight different countries. I can often get lost in the numbers—the number of countries we work […]

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How Black History paves the way for a more sustainable future

Being sustainability-minded typically comes with an orientation toward thinking about the future. After all, one of the ultimate goals of sustainability is to leave the planet better than one found it as a loving act toward future generations. So what role does history, specifically, Black history play in this? A significant role. In order to […]

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What's the return for investing in ecosystem restoration?

What happens when you invest in ecosystem restoration? You may have heard a lot about ecosystem restoration lately. On World Environment Day (June 5, 2021), the United Nations launched the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a global effort to help ecosystems from forests to oceans to farmlands recover their health and abundance. As a Christian organization, […]

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Remembering our friend, Peter Illyn

A reflection from our CEO Scott Sabin On December 11th , the Church lost a pioneer, a prophet and someone whose voice should have been much more widely heard. I first met Peter Illyn in 1996, at a conference convened by the Christian Environmental Council in Chattanooga. Of all the people I met that week, […]

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Faith, culture, and identity shape environmental efforts around the planet

What moves people to actually care for the environment at a local level? Duang Dee lives in Thailand, though he himself is Karen. The Karen are an ethinic group in Southeast Asia that do not have their own formal country. Instead, they live between Thailand and Myanmar. Historically, the areas of northern Myanmar have been […]

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Want to help provide clean water? Protect the watershed!

Dirty water is one of the biggest hazards to humans around the world Every year, about 3.5 million people around the world will die from unclean water. About two thirds of them will be children. This is the equivalent of a large commercial airplane crashing every single hour. For those of us who have easy […]

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Family values and environmental values aren’t exclusive. They actually overlap a lot.

So why does it often feel like family values are a different set of interests than environmental values? More likely than not, this is based only on outward appearances. The thought of family values might make one think of a warm home, and the thought of environmental values might make somebody imagine a dense forest. […]

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Welcoming the Stranger: the Congolese community we could all learn from

Their past was riddled with conflict. Their future is about security and abundance. Nobody would consider Kakumba an easy place to live. Simply getting to it takes extensive climbing up steep hills and mountain sides, on trails that are often inaccessible due to rain… or worse. It wasn’t long ago that the conflicts that have […]

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There's no such thing as a sustainable trend

Environmental concern is urgent. It is also timeless. Have you ever caught yourself thinking, wow, this sustainability trend sure is taking off, isn’t it? You’d have good reason for thinking that. Fidelity, the investment giant declared last year as the year “sustainability went mainstream” declaring that “professional and private investors alike are realizing that sustainability […]

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