In lieu of receiving gifts for her birthday party, Grayson asked that her friends each bring a pair of gently worn shoes. She approached me with this idea because she wanted to simply give shoes to kids who didn't have any. While this brought my heart pure joy, I did wonder how we would find exactly the right fit (pardon the pun) for this gift. God provided amazingly, and we found a college group of students who were collecting shoes to take to an orphanage in Lithuania. Grayson and her friend Sophia matched each pair to a special tag (each with a picture of the child and requested shoe size).... 26 pairs in all. Grayson's gift was their largest donation.
"What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world". James 1:27
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