Sep 30, 2009
The Mustard Seed changes handsBy David SnowDemopolisTimes.com

Demopolis — “I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” — Matthew 17:20

In 1993, Joy Collins purchased The Mustard Seed gift shop from Jean Richie 17 years after it opened as a small shop on Strawberry Avenue behind Colony Office Products. The business has since moved to the corner of Walnut Avenue and Washington Street in downtown Demopolis.

On Monday, she turned the keys over to Suzanne Stallworth Young, beginning a new chapter in the gift shop’s 33-year history.

“The Mustard Seed is going to continue on, only better with (Young’s) exuberance,” Collins said. “I’m thrilled about it!”

Collins has been with the business from the start, and while she feels the time is right to move on to other things in her life, she still finds it difficult to leave the business that she helped build.

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