Fair Trade
Let’s be the change we wish to see.
In the Fall of 2001, seeds were planted to bring Fair Trade to the Ascension Community. Those seeds have grown and flourished. Ascension’s Fair Trade Ministry – a justice ministry for people & planet - celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year (2026).
Ascension purchases most of its Fair Trade products from Equal Exchange. For calendar year 2025 & for the fifth consecutive year, Ascension was in the Top 10 among all faith community purchasers nationwide in Equal Exchange’s interfaith customer segment. We are so very blessed to be one of many faith communities promoting justice for people and planet through our support of Fair Trade. In 2023, Ascension added Mt Meru Coffee Project Fair Trade coffee from Tanzania to its product choices. The Mt Meru Coffee Project, a ministry of the ELCA’s Greater Milwaukee Synod, recently celebrated its twenty-fifth Anniversary.
Fair Trade Lane: A Faith Path To Justice for People & Planet
The doors of Fair Trade Lane are open monthly. Everyone is welcome. In addition to shopping the shelves of Fair Trade Lane for favorites – chocolate products, tea, coffee, nuts, olive oil, snacks and cheese – there is joyful meeting, greeting, and conversation too! If you aren’t able to visit Fair Trade Lane to make your purchases, you can contact our team by email at about the items you wish to purchase.
Ascension’s Fair Trade Ministry thanks its substantial and ever-growing group of Fair Traders and the entire Ascension Community for their long and strong support of Fair Trade as we grow forward into the next 25 years!
Ascension Lutheran Church
1600 East Hillcrest Drive
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
805 495 0406
Worship Times:
Saturday 6pm Country Spirit
Sunday 9am Traditional,
& 10:30 am Praise Alive
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