This past Sunday at our church, Destiny Center, was Barefoot Sunday. Our pastor asked us to be prepared to donate our shoes and go barefoot at church. The shoes will be donated to organizations who can get them to the poor in the world, almost 40% of the world’s population, who go without shoes all the time.
Yesterday, Betty and I went to the church to help get all these shoes organized and boxed up. Our task was to separate the shoes into groups based on women’s shoes, men’s shoes, boy’s shoes and girl’s shoes and then by size within each group.
We arrived at 10 AM and, five hours later, the job was done. The total was 2,245 pairs of shoes. Given how many shoes we handled I would have said the total should have been 22,245 pairs.
Here’s a short video of what we saw as we entered the main auditorium:
5 comments:
What an incredibly awesome idea! I'm with you--that looks like a HUGE amount of shoes. Way to be, Destiny Center!!!
Well at least there was no snow on the ground for all those barefoot folks. My! That's a lot of shoes! Any stinky teenage boy sneakers?
~Lisa
WoW! Very cool, Dan. Those shoes will be cherished, I'm sure~
That's amazing! Were they mostly new-ish or old?
Lisa, yes there were some stinky teenage boy shoes.
Val, there were quite a few brand new shoes - many with the sales sticker/labels still on them.
Dan
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