Archive for the 'Going' Category

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 [...]

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By Samantha Soto
It’s day five of the Peru trip and God is definitely at work.
The first children’s home we visited posed a little bit of a challenge. A lot of the kids there had special needs and I know that I was a little concerned that we’d have to change it up a bit to [...]

As soon as I climbed into the van after leaving Zacapa Hogar Temporal in Guatemala, tears began rolling down my face.
My heart was broken by the honesty had just encountered with a gorgeous 6-year-old girl.
Her name was Jennifer, and I had been talking to her while she was playing on the swing set, just after [...]

By Andrew Crowson

The spicy smell of Ethiopia is hard to put a finger on. A mixture of the spices used on the food, the smell of the people, and the omnipresent diesel fumes are the most identifiable elements in the scent that mixed with the soft rays of sunlight to awaken me daily. My hotel [...]

By Analiz González
Buckner International
(CLEVELAND, Ohio) — WCRF Radio conducted its fifth Shoes for Orphan Souls drive from June 15-Aug. 3, collecting more than 1,100 pairs during its July 31 drop-off day at Joe’s Fine Deli and Restaurant.
“It is the most they have ever raised in a single day,” said Rachel Garton, director of Shoes for [...]