Raven and Lily

Please, please, please check out this website and watch the video on the home page: http://www.ravenandlily.com/

Raven and Lily is an awesome organization. They are a fair-trade company and sell eco-friendly, fashionable items made by women who are in poverty. They help teach these women job skills and give them the opportunity for a better life.

Kirsten Dickerson is a co-founder of the organization and I had the wonderful opportunity today of meeting and her husband Brandon, who is a film director and has done music videos for Switchfoot, Jonas Brothers, and many others. They are an incredible couple who passionately live out their faith. They are also friends of my youth pastor and his wife, and that is how I got connected with them.

Both Kirsten and Brandon attended Baylor, and they are back in Waco for a bit to take care of Kirsten's mother. While here, Kirsten continues to promote Raven and Lily. Today there was a trunk show of their merchandise at Common Grounds, our awesome local coffee shop. I was able to help volunteer for a bit by setting up merchandise and helping customers. It was such a cool experience to work with people who are doing something to change the world, and selling really adorable things in the process. I got a really cool bag that was made out of a recycled sari from a woman in India. Raven and Lily is a great picture of how God wants to use each of our talents to fulfill his mission. Kirsten's talent is design, and she gives this gift back to God by using it to help the poor.

I am really looking forward to getting to know this couple even more and to watching Raven and Lily help even more women across the world. I highly encourage you to check out this organization. It is such a cool one to support, and they sell such cute stuff (as I have already said many times in this post, it's just so true!) Just think, you could buy an adorable gift for someone, and in the process you could help support a woman who is searching for a better life.