Archive for the 'Going' Category

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was taken from an Oct. 23 post on the DiRuggiero family’s travel blog.
We have just completed our last full day of shoe ministry in Oaxaca, Mexico.  Our “Shoes For Orphan Souls” mission team (30 of us from Georgia, Tenn., and Illinois) have cleaned and adorned nearly 800 pairs of little feet with new socks [...]

This article has been reprinted with permission from the St. Petersburg Times. You can see the original article here.
By Sarah Whitman
Times Staff Writer
In Print: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Listeners know her as Carmen, the cheerful female voice of the Morning Cruise on the Joy FM, 91.5 in Tampa. For nearly a decade, she has chatted with [...]

The first-annual CiCi’s Pizza Barefoot Run, benefiting Shoes for Orphan Souls, was a huge success, with 315 runners participating on Saturday, Oct. 8., and donations from the event still coming in.
“The turnout was wonderful,” said Julia Stark, program manager of Shoes for Orphan Souls. “It was much, much higher than we expected, and it was [...]

by Tim Sinclair
“Everything looks like it’s under construction, but I’m pretty sure that none of it is.”
That was my first thought as our bus made its way up to the Pamplona district of Lima, Peru. Walls were half built. Roofs were unfinished. There were holes for windows with no glass in sight. The “homes” in Pamplona [...]

By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International

Shoes for Orphan Souls and the Buckner Center for Humanitarian Aid have dedicated friends and partners in the Missouri-based Convoy of Hope and Missouri Rotary District 6040. So when a destructive tornado ripped through Joplin in May, Buckner wanted to help.