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DALLAS – Shoes for Orphan Souls is currently accepting applications for trips to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and St. Petersburg, Russia this fall. Both trips are scheduled from Oct. 6-15.
The trip to Russia will focus on delivering shoes to and bonding with children in orphanages

OAXACA, Mexico — “Emotional” is the only word that could accurately describe the fourth day of our mission trip to Oaxaca last November. We spent our morning ministering to the special needs children of one of the local orphanages.

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 [...]