The Sewing Machines at Thistle Farms on Charlotte Avenue
Every Sunday morning, Becca Stevens preached from the pulpit at St. Augustine's Chapel in Nashville. Every Monday morning, she unlocked the doors of Thistle Farms,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 58:1-12.
Every Sunday morning, Becca Stevens preached from the pulpit at St. Augustine's Chapel in Nashville. Every Monday morning, she unlocked the doors of Thistle Farms, a social enterprise on Charlotte Avenue where women surviving trafficking and addiction rolled lavender between their palms and pressed it into healing balms. The same hands that once gripped crack pipes now operated industrial sewing machines, stitching candles and bath products that funded their own recovery housing.…
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