Corporation # 430214-1 CRA #83526 9077 BC 0001 Society# CD-8346782389

“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”
-Author Unknown

Welcome Friends to the WorldTree Community Website

Our vision is built on an Inclusive, Sustainable, Spiritually Fulfilling and Socially Just World for Everyone!

We are an Interfaith Community Service organization. Our aim is to promote Wellness, Community Culture, Education and Spiritualism. We are a registered, non-profit society and offer many charitable programs. We have no paid staff and the proceeds of our professional services go to supporting our programs and the many requests for assistance and charity.

The WorldTree has been in operation since 1984 as a provincial society and since 1960 under the religious auspices of CHORD. Our core members have worked in a variety of community settings, volunteering their time to promote wellness, secular education, and community. Our core teachings and principles are of a World Conscious, Aborginal and nature perspective including; First Nations, Druidic, Wiccan and Gaian. Our broader view is that of Interfaith and the acceptance of all! While individuals may be of various Spiritual, religious and cultural beliefs within the WorldTree Community; it is not our purpose to promote, convert or otherwise disseminate religion; rather it is to help sustain and develop community in developing relationships of equity and equality by:

Reclaiming of Traditional Knowledge

Restoring Positive Leadership roles to Elders

Reconstructing Religious and Spiritual practices which

include Religious Tolerance and connection to Nature and the natural world

Recognition of Indigenous Sovereignty and communities

Resisting that which we are Not! Including elements of

plundering, modernity, and hegemonic forces.

Most importantly by living the teachings of our ancestors with compassion, understanding, gratitude, and humility.

We welcome you to our community and thank you for your support.

We wish you well.

We offer a variety of services to local communities, as well as, online and Outreach to all corners of the Earth. We rely upon charitable donations and yearly fundraising to help offset the operating expenses and costs associated with both our Community Outreach services and wellness programs which included Elder and Youth programs, traditional foods and food security Mediation and counseling. Our long-term projects include a Holistic Trans-personal gathering place: offering unique World Conscious education and study programs and a Cultural Long Haus that we might share our culture and teaching with the younger generations and the greater community. Our short term goals is the building of our Canoe and Canoe Shead for our Youth and Elders. Our Vision is to provided youth an opportunity to share and connect with Elders Teachers and healthy lifestyle choices. We expected to host many community groups in our canoe and to meet many more on the Coast Salish Seas at Tribal Journeys and other community canoe gatherings. We thank the many donors for supporting our Vision.

One Spirit Canoe:

Canoe a11

(Black= Funds raised to-date April 2012)

Our Cedar one Spirit Canoe Family has successfully complete another season of Tribal Journeys and successful raised $2500.00 towards our own canoe. We Thank Potlatch funds for supporting our 2011 Elders on Tribal Journeys as well as the CNSC -Canoe Nation Support Consortium for the donation of radios, Safety equipment and life Jackets. We hope to hold another Rummage sale this June as well as our raffles and t-shirts sale on the 2012 Pull to Squaxin WA. Our special thanks to the many large and small donations from the community in helping our youth and Elder's as we grow towards our own canoe program. Yearly a majority of the cost for our canoe Journeys is taken up by canoe rental fees and trailering and hauling; we loose out on many opportunities for the Youth to get out and practices and for the teachable moments with the older relations.

Wellness Center Progress

while we have had some financial setbacks for the Wellness Center, our community continues to grow.We have the core programming and methods. We are now seeking options to help buy some wilderness land for the center.We are always looking to share additional teaching in traditional medicines and plants. Our community Garden programs and Professional services are currently generating the major of the funds in trust to this project.

January 2011