1998: My niece, Sarah Evelyn, my Mother Evelyn's namesake, was born the day before my 25th birthday! I was living in Jerusalem. Our family joined Mannatech, a nutritional company founded by Sam Caster, and my health dramatically changed for the better! GOD gave me a vision for creating ongoing funding for ministries and missions worldwide, by marketing Mannatech supplements.
1999: GOD led Sam and Linda Caster to start a charitable organization (MannaRelief) to provide nutritional supplements for children around the world. who lacked access to the nutrients they needed to thrive (and survive!) in their developmental years.
2003: My Mother was diagnosed with dermatomyisitis and cancer.
2005: My nephew Cedar was born on May 21st, a little over 2 months after my Mother passed away on March 13th.
2007: I Googled "how to change the world" and discovered Social Entrepreneurship. My vision for marketing supplements to support missions and bless the nations was confirmed big time! I discovered Social Entrepreneurship and immediately recognized myself as a Social Entrepreneur! I began reading and learning about this creative and sustainable way of doing business--and charitable work together---and it's been an exciting journey of confirmation and anticipation since then!
2008: My niece Cranberry was born on the Eve of Valentine's Day! Our economy experienced incredible challenges and MannaRelief lost a significant portion of their donor support. GOD led Sam and Linda to the idea of Social Business.
2010: Sam Caster caught the same vision for Social Entrepreneurship and I was delighted!
2012: I joined Sam and MannaRelief on a mission trip to Mexico.
2014: Sam left Mannatech the same year my personal life fell apart. GOD kept confirming His purpose for me, in the midst of it all.
2015: Hadassah Hanukkah, Six Stone Waterpots and Seven More Days, Isaiah 49
2020: On May 3, the Holy Spirit woke me up and said "Sam Caster" so I called Sam that afternoon and found out he was launching ALOVEA that very day! I joined A-LOVE-A and began working on my vision to support missions. It's been a challenging 3 years but I have held on and GOD has prepared me to serve the Bought'tea of Christ with MY CUPP OF TEA: Children-Unreached-Pinecone-Promises! Ta Ethne Alleluia! (All Peoples Praise the LORD!)
Alovéa is a Public Benefit Corporation (social business) founded by two international not for-profit organizations (Manna Relief and Nations Changer Group) in order to provide sustainable solutions to the world's most challenging health concerns.
Alovea's Buy 1, Nourish 1™ model of social giving is at the very heart of ALOVEA's Social Business mission. Consumers receive the best nourishment that science has to offer while providing a sustainable funding mechanism for meeting the needs of children, who without our support, have little hope of achieving and maintaining good health!
I have opened ALOVEA Social Business Partner accounts for Lifewater International and Neverthirst, so that every ALOVEA product purchased within my organization, will not only nourish you and a child in need, but also will serve Children Unreached Pinecone Promises with access to safe, clean drinking water and the gospel!
My favorite ALOVEA products are Balance (to symbolize my mission to help change the Great Imbalance) and CHILV: Cell-A-Brate, Hope Pops, Immun, Limitless, Vitality---and Fix, Focus & Fuel---for "Four Friends' Faith" and Hebrews 12! Fix your eyes on Jesus. Focus on the joy set before you. This will Fuel you with endurance to run the race!
It took some time, but "everything" came together in 2020, when GOD birthed ALOVEA, through MannaRelief and another nonprofit, Nations Changer Movement Network, as a Social Business! On May 3, 2020, the Holy Spirit woke me up saying, "Sam Caster"--- I called Sam that afternoon and he filled me in on what GOD was doing with them, and with this new company, ALOVEA. I signed up that day!
The vision GOD has given Sam and Linda to bless the nations dove tails perfectly with the vision He has given me to bless the nations! They have created the ahh-pour-two-knee-tea for all my ideas to flourish!
Selling has always made me uncomfortable. It's just exactly opposite of what I would naturally want to do. It took years for me to establish a price for my massage therapy, and I still tremble on the inside when I think of marketing my services, even though I have been a licensed massage therapist for 27 years. Selling through direct sales is the worst thing I could ever imagine doing, but this is the very model that has given me the ahh-pour-two-knee-tea to imagine doing everything that is in my heart to do!
With MY CUPP OF TEA, I am serving Children Unreached Pinecone Promises with access to safe, clean drinking water, hygiene and the living water of the gospel! MY CUPP OF TEA supports Lifewater International and Neverthirst.
My friends Sam and Linda Caster were married on January 13, 1973, just a few weeks before I was born on February 1st, 1973! So "we" are kinda the same age---but more importantly, we are on the same page! The vision GOD gave me to carry and craft for so many years, was divinely orchestrated to dove-tail with the vision that GOD gave to Sam and Linda. Here is their story.
