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PICKING WITH PURPOSE
Right outside of Stillwater on Central Rural Electric Cooperative’s power lines, sits a garden filled with 7,000 tulips ready for your family to hand pick this spring. Thrive Flower Farm provides custom bouquets, U-Pick events where you can pick flowers by hand and custom workshops. What sets Thrive Flower Farm apart from other florists is how they transform lives with every purchase made.
Every purchase from Thrive Flower Farm benefits Change for Congo. Proceeds help with school fees, food, living expenses and are also helping add a secondstory addition to the orphanage.
“We dreamed and prayed with Sadiki about how to help more children for about nine months before we started the orphanage from the ground up,” Alsup said.
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“The whole reason we started Thrive Flower Farm, was to raise money for our nonprofit, Change for Congo,” said Sara Alsup, owner of Thrive Flower Farm and creator of Change for Congo.
Local Congolese, Sadiki-he, helped the family with the long adoption process that took nearly four years. Sadiki currently runs the orphanage the Alsup’s started. ,S ner Ow
CHANGE FOR CONGO What started in 2016 with pint-size change jars has grown into a flourishing cut flower farm, where all proceeds benefit an orphanage in Goma, Congo.
Sara and her husband, Bobby Alsup, learned about an orphan crisis after they heard about Congo at Church. That’s when they felt a calling to adopt their youngest son, Mosi.
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The family, now of five, began raising money by collecting change in pint-size jars at local churches. “With Sadiki’s help, we found a place to rent and began helping 10 children. Now we help take care of 29 children,” Alsup said. “We wanted the children to feel n SEE “PICKING WITH PURPOSE” PAGE 2
Children at the orphanage in Goma, Congo.
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When you step out of your car and onto the Thrive Flower Farm, the sweet aroma of florals kisses your nose while you’re greeted by the friendly farm dog, Goose.