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News from inside Bloom Ministries: its founding, its programs, its accounts and its people.

Reflections

Founders Day: How Bloom Ministries Began on the Feast of Saint Hedwig

Posted on by Pastora Tori Matthews
A single pink blossom opening in a dawn window beside a sealed envelope, for Bloom Ministries' first Founders Day
16
Oct

One year ago, Bloom Ministries was filed in Oregon on the feast of Saint Hedwig. This first annual Founders Day remembers who came first, and what the first year built.

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Statements

Why I Built the Bloom Charter — And Then Locked Myself Out of It

Posted on by Pastora Tori Matthews
Two empty chairs facing each other in a bare room — a heavy conference chair and a light plastic waiting-room chair
27
Aug

Two Rooms I have spent most of my adult life inside two rooms that most people never have to enter at the same time. The first was the boardroom. I built a company from nothing into something that moved fifty million dollars a year. I sat at the table where things got decided. When I […]

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Press Releases

Press Release: The Bloom Charter Launches — A Rights Document Its Founder Cannot Edit

Posted on by Pastora Tori Matthews
The Bloom Charter launch — an open bound document on a plain table beside a gold seal whose ring is deliberately broken and rejoined
26
Aug

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SALEM, Ore. — August 26, 2026 — Bloom Ministries today launched the Bloom Charter, a public declaration of rights for transgender, disabled, and marginalized people, built so that no single person — including its founder — can quietly change it. What the Bloom Charter Is The Bloom Charter is available now at […]

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