M Seed Thrift Store & Outreach

Founded in 2011, by Jeff and Glenda Thompson in Oregon City, Oregon. We started M Seed Outreach to be a vessel to reach out to the poor, homeless, people who have been imprisoned, abused, and suffer from addiction. We meet people where they are at, to bring them hope and a way off the streets. Our own daughter struggled with addiction. We were not equipped to help her and started to educate ourselves to gain as much knowledge, understanding and wisdom by researching and analyzing drug addiction and recovery. Finding out the cost for a residential treatment program was much too expensive and our insurance only covered 30 days. Thirty days didn’t seem long enough. We started to search alternative ways to help our daughter if she decided she wanted help. We realized she would need to be removed from her current enablers and triggers for her to be successful in her recovery. After much research we found several non-profit, 12 month, faith based out of state programs that would accept her at no cost. We thought 12 months would really give addicts a chance to conquer addiction, grow in wisdom, be healed of their past hurts, change their thinking, friends, life style and find their identity. God put a desire in Jeff’s heart and mine to start an outreach that would make us a liaison between the addict and these programs. Our plan was simple…most addicts can not think clearly to help themselves get out of the dark hole they are in, so we can locate an available program that has an opening, help them with the application, interview process, purchase items they may need (such as toiletries, clothing etc., ) we drive them, purchase an airline ticket or whatever transportation is needed and we escort them to the program. We care and keep in touch with them while they are in the program and send care packages, pray and encourage them. We decided to start a small thrift store to raise money in order to provide these services and operate with volunteers. We have helped hundreds of people.

Our Mission to be a vessel to reach out to people who suffer from substance abuse. We encourage people to make positive changes. Restore the lives of those we send to recovery that they’ll conquer addiction, grow in wisdom, be healed of their past hurts, mend past relationships and become a healthy productive part of our community and reconnect with friends, family and community so they can live a functioning life free from substance abuse.