Category Archives: WorldCrafts
New WorldCrafts Course!
We just released WorldCrafts: An Overview, an online, self-guided mini-course that teaches about the WorldCrafts ministry, fair-trade, and WorldCrafts artisans. Participants will also be equipped with resources to teach others about WorldCrafts, including a PowerPoint presentation, presentation notes, flyers, and posters. This course is great for those who want to learn more about WorldCrafts as […]
Save up to 20% on Select WorldCrafts Accessories
Save up to 20% on select WorldCrafts accessories through Wednesday, August 19, while supplies last. Each fair-trade item is handmade by artisans around the world. The sale features more than 25 accessory items. Here are just a few of the items on sale. Thai Lunch Tote—Purple The Thai Lunch Tote—Purple, handmade by Thai Country Trim […]
New Resources and Save 20% on Select WorldCrafts Accessories
WorldCrafts and other national WMU Compassion Ministries offer you the opportunity to directly help suffering people throughout the world. Through our resources and ministries, you can learn about and support people in poverty, human trafficking survivors, refugees, and vulnerable children, and you can provide humanitarian aid in the United States and globally. WMU Compassion Ministries […]
WMU Compassion Ministries Online Training
National WMU Compassion Ministries offer you the opportunity to directly help suffering people throughout the world. Through our resources and ministries you can learn about and support those in poverty, human trafficking survivors, and refugees living in the United States and globally. We have just released a series of self-guided mini-courses designed to teach the […]
CWJC of Madison County, Alabama: Rejoicing by Creating Earrings
With the help of Christian Women’s Job Corps of Madison County, Alabama, women are being equipped with essential educational, employment, and life skills. One artisan says, “Through this program, my faith has gotten stronger and I don’t have a lot of fears I used to have because it was hard for me to trust.” Providing […]
Hill Top Crafts: Purposeful Purses
Years ago, a representative with our new artisan group Hill Top Crafts visited Thailand. While there, she met a group of ladies making traditional Hmong crafts. Their group was named Hill Top. “I visited the location in Thailand where these women worked,” she says. “I thought they were going to be creating typical Hmong crafts, […]
Introducing Bidri Ware: An Ancient Handicraft
In a small southern India town, Bidar, the community still practices an ancient handicraft dating back to the 14th century: bidriware. “Bidriware is made from a mix of zinc and copper inlaid with thin sheets of silver,” a representative with Bidri Ware, a new WorldCrafts artisan group, says. For many in India, a better future […]
WorldCrafts Artisans Receive Grants for Clean Water
In the midst of the global pandemic, WMU’s Compassion Ministry Pure Water, Pure Love granted four WorldCrafts artisan groups with more than $40,000 to provide clean water for the artisans, their families, and their communities. Bidri Ware, WorldCrafts’ newest artisan group, employs skilled artisans in a southern Indian town who are providing for their families […]
Encourage WorldCrafts Artisans in the United States
WorldCrafts partners with artisan groups throughout the United States. The artisans are unable to gather together due to the current pandemic. They need our prayers and encouragement during this time. Artisans always appreciate receiving cards or letters of encouragement. If you would like to send them an encouraging word, you can send it to the […]
Pray for WorldCrafts Artisans
We have all been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. WorldCrafts artisan leaders from Kyrgyzstan to Louisiana have shared how artisans have been impacted. Your prayers make a difference. In the midst of this crisis, please join us in prayer for our brothers and sisters around the world. Here are three specific prayers to pray for […]