Shoes For Orphan Souls
This past Monday night, I traveled to Longview, Texas for a Magnificent Mondays Banquet at First Baptist Church.
The style show was fun (those East Texas Women KNOW how to dress, now) and I did comedy & spoke but the BEST part was the emphasis on a mission project; Shoes for Orphan Souls through Buckner Baptist Benevolencies.
What I love to see is the church acting like Jesus! Passionate about this project, their goal as a church is 500 pairs of shoes. They have a gift-card insert for Mother's and Father's Day where you can provide a much needed pair of shoes to honor your mother or father. GREAT IDEA!
It reminded me of my amazing mother-in-law, Shirley Henson, who asked for this gift at Christmas many years ago; a gift for an angel-tree child. She is in heaven now but we still pick angel-tree children each year in her honor.
By skipping one dinner out, your family can sponsor a World Vision child or make a donation to rescue a precious young girl from the horrific sex trade they are sold into by desperate parents.
I was trying to answer my daughter's questions about why such horrible conditions exist but there is no explanation. But, we do have wonderful agencies in place to help the innocents and may all of us who have so much do just a little to help those with nothing.
So, let's celebrate and laugh and enjoy ourselves and eat our chicken salad and watch style shows, but let's also have our focus always be helping the least of these.
The style show was fun (those East Texas Women KNOW how to dress, now) and I did comedy & spoke but the BEST part was the emphasis on a mission project; Shoes for Orphan Souls through Buckner Baptist Benevolencies.
What I love to see is the church acting like Jesus! Passionate about this project, their goal as a church is 500 pairs of shoes. They have a gift-card insert for Mother's and Father's Day where you can provide a much needed pair of shoes to honor your mother or father. GREAT IDEA!
It reminded me of my amazing mother-in-law, Shirley Henson, who asked for this gift at Christmas many years ago; a gift for an angel-tree child. She is in heaven now but we still pick angel-tree children each year in her honor.
By skipping one dinner out, your family can sponsor a World Vision child or make a donation to rescue a precious young girl from the horrific sex trade they are sold into by desperate parents.
I was trying to answer my daughter's questions about why such horrible conditions exist but there is no explanation. But, we do have wonderful agencies in place to help the innocents and may all of us who have so much do just a little to help those with nothing.
So, let's celebrate and laugh and enjoy ourselves and eat our chicken salad and watch style shows, but let's also have our focus always be helping the least of these.
posted by Jinny Henson @ 9:06 AM
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