Rethreaded’s Mission
Rethreaded loves people affected by the sex
Local Impact: Sewing a New Story
Rethreaded provides a four-month holistic training program for women in the Jacksonville, Florida area who are coming out of lives of addiction, violence, human trafficking, and prostitution. Many of these women leave prison with felony records, creating significant challenges to employment. Rethreaded is a safe place where women are paid a living wage to become artisan seamstresses and “upcycle” donated t-shirts into new creations for sale. See their products here.
Global Mission: Supporting Freedom Businesses
Rethreaded also operates as a distribution company that sells products made by women from all over the world who have found freedom from the sex trade. We sell these products at our warehouse , local events, seasonal home parties, and online. Read about our freedom business partners here.
Values
Love: Love is the transforming agent of Rethreaded. We seek to love others unconditionally, healthfully, and in a way that speaks to the source of our Love.
We believe that God is the purest source of Love and seek to love others like God has loved us. The greatest model of love is shown through the grace, mercy, and compassion of Jesus. We will humbly try to follow His perfect example of what perfect love tangibly looks like in a very messy world. We trust that love can guide our business and help us overcome anything that comes our way.
Acceptance: All men, women, and children have the possibility to be redeemed, healed and freed from the effects of the sex trade.
We believe that both the oppressed and the oppressor can be given a chance to “Sew a new Story”. Whoever walks through the doors of Rethreaded, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, sex, or past will be welcome into the community of Rethreaded. We do recognize that there will be instances where boundaries must be put in place but those will be for the safety of our employees.
Acceptance comes from knowing someone’s story. By knowing each other we are more free to love and enter into each other live in a healthy non-judgmental way.
Community: In a world that is filled with individualism we seek to offer a radical alternative in which people can experience what it truly means to be a part of a community.
This is where our mission becomes real. Our commitment to each other will keep us knitted together when our relationship and community is at stake. We will come together in hard times, celebrate the successes, and press each other to become more of who we were created to be.
This sense of community that will be developed within Rethreaded’s own walls can then be taken and used to transform, our city, and our world.
Employees
Rethreaded celebrated the graduation of its first employee from its four-month holistic training program on March 1, 2013. Beginning in November 2012, an all-volunteer staffed training program began to provide healing in the form of daily devotionals, journaling, and collage, and instruction in color theory, nutrition, budgeting, and of course, sewing.
Our employees are artisan seamstresses, meaning they take ownership of the products by making design and color choices during production. Using donated t-shirts as the raw material, the possibilities present a creative challenge and an opportunity to express individuality. Rethreaded believes that art and creativity can heal the brain by strengthening existing connections and sparking new neural pathways.
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