Archive for July, 2010

ExxonMobil Interns Collect, Sort Shoes for Orphans

By Brittany Black
Buckner International
MESQUITE, Texas – Bridget Bennett was asked to donate five pairs of shoes for orphans as part of her service project for the ExxonMobil Community Summer Job Program, but she managed to collect 44.
“I thought, ‘Let’s get as many as possible,’” Bennett said. “I cleared out [...]

Describing our Shoes for Orphan Souls mission trip to the Mexican border sounds almost like the start of a joke: “Did you hear the one about the Texas church, the Christian band, and the volunteers from five states?”
True, the 40 members of our group seemed disparate. First Baptist Church of Zavalla sent 18 members on [...]