OUR MISSION
Beautiful Lives Thrift Boutique is nestled intentionally within the women’s thrift industry with a redemptive edge and dedication to the belief that every woman deserves to feel beautiful.
Your engagement makes life-change possible today and paves the way for future expansion and organizational growth.
Beautiful Lives’ Story
In 2016, in the heart of Fayetteville, Arkansas, a powerful founding story began to unfold. Beautiful Lives Thrift Boutique emerged as a holistic mission shaped by love and compelled by faith. Jointly founded by Melody Taylor and New Heights Church Fayetteville, the community quickly embraced the endeavor. As a redemptive and revenue-focused non-profit, the venture quickly grew by pioneering an authentic approach to standing with women navigating challenging circumstances. By providing an elevated shopping experience that reflects God-given dignity and hope through accessible prices, the boutique leans into regular opportunities of giving generously and cultivating human flourishing across the organization.
At present, Beautiful Lives Thrift Boutique is positioned in the Northwest Arkansas community with locations in Bentonville, Fayetteville, and Siloam Springs. BL's mission to lift women and mend community shows through intentional nurturing of complimentary bottom lines held by the organization. Giving generously to partnerships and creating ways to collaborate with the NWA community are primary activities along with stewarding our volunteers and staff team towards a thriving work experience. Beautiful Lives Thrift Boutique is led and operated by a staff of nearly 45 women. We hold the belief that the process of lifting women and mending community begins within ourselves and naturally extends outward. As such, we are committed to becoming transformational people who steward transformation into our community. We believe that we are better together; we thank God for you. Your engagement propels organizational growth and paves the way for future expansion.
Core values
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Cultivating a spirit of continuous development and learning, sustaining progress and multiplying opportunities.
Together, we develop, we sustain, we multiply.
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Foster collaboration, build meaningful relationships, and establish genuine connections.
Together, we collaborate, we relate, we connect.
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Extend grace by demonstrating unconditional positive regard, dignify every interaction, and elevate the worth of each individual.
Together, we give grace, we dignify, we elevate.
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Adopt a humble and selfless heart posture towards others, influence without expecting personal gain or recognition in return, making a positive impact through genuine service.
Together, we love, we influence, we are humble.
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We value excellence in our craft and hold ourselves accountable to the best of our abilities.
Together, we are effective, we steward, and we take ownership.
10 ministry partnerships
Intentional ways BL comes alongside women and organizations by generously giving
Beautiful Lives gives monetary support to the following ministry partnerships and also invites them to participate in the Partner of the Month campaign to create more of an impact where everyone’s little together makes a lot. Giving to ministry partner organizations from the revenue of Beautiful Lives and through the Partner of the Month campaign totaled $74,573 in 2023.
6 local to northwest arkansas
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Offering support for women experiencing an unexpected pregnancy. Women do not have to feel alone are able to receive care as well as free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds.
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Teaches life skills and feeds people out of food trucks at times. Diva and Dude is working to increase personal value, enhance family dynamics, and formulate community enhancement that generates social responsibility. A mission dedicated to reconnect the family and create a community of social wellness.
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Providing victim support services to survivors of human trafficking in Northwest Arkansas and educating the community on the nature of the crime of trafficking.
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Provides support to incarcerated women or women recently rejoining the community through mentorship, Bible study, and life skills training. By partnering with other organizations in the community, Ladies of Grace helps ensure women can more successfully navigate the transition from prison to community and thus lower recidivism rates.
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Saving Grace provides a safe and stable home for girls 18-25 who've aged out of foster care and are at risk of becoming homeless. Through the program and resources provided through Saving Grace it positions "Grace" with relationships, skills, and resources to empower generational change.
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Tangible Truth Ministries is faith driven and intended to create opportunities to practice and experience Truth in everyday life through teaching, training, and connecting. Teaching through conferences, meetings and events. Trainings through workshops, one-on-one and in corporate settings. Connecting through individualized therapy and free counseling.
4 International
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Supporting global workers and missionaries of New Heights Church Fayetteville. Furniture Friends is a division of Global Outfitters by accepting furniture donations to outfit apartments of international students attending the University of Arkansas.
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Located in Tanzania and dedicated to providing education, skills training, and community development projects in various parts of East Africa. Go Near has also been founded by the founder of Beautiful Lives Thrift Boutique, Melody Taylor.
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A team of lawyers and social workers across the globe rescuing and restoring victims of forced labor and sex trafficking all around the world. They work relentlessly through local justice systems to ensure that traffickers, rapists, and other criminals go to jail, so they cannot be abuse, exploit, or enslave others. They provide training, mentoring, and support to police, judges, and other community leaders to slow down and stop the cycle of violence.
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Empowers widows and orphans by providing free sewing and jewelry making training to women facing vulnerable situations in Kenya. The goal is to bring hope that has been lost in women's lives as a result of AIDS, death, and poverty. Widowed women learn to create beautiful products leading to a sustainable means to provide for themselves and their families.
junior partners
Beautiful Lives gives BL gift certificates to shop in store to the following Partner and Junior Partner organizations. This form of giving totaled $26,749 in 2023.
Brand New Mercies
Canopy
Compassion House
Family Network: Diaper Collective
Fellowship Bible Church: Women Global Workers
Freedom Finder
Freedom Seekers Ministry
Genesis House
Global Restoration Trading Co
Into the Light
Magdeline Serenity House
New Heights Church Fayetteville
Nicole’s House
Havenwood
Restoration Village
Shared Beginnings
Single Parent Scholarship Fund
