Elena. Irinia. Ted. I have a lump in my throat while listening to their stories. For about one minute, these teenagers share a synopsis of their life story, starting with the pain and hopelessness of abuse, neglect and despair, and ending with the joy of adoption. And everything started because someone, on the other side of the globe, cared enough to send them a shoe box filled with simple, inexpensive toys. While I watch the videos, pictures of children around the world parade across the Continue Reading
Packing God’s Love – My Atlanta Journal Constitution Column
One hundred million shoe boxes. From Uganda to Indonesia, from Ecuador to the refugee camps in the mountains of Iraq, 100 million children received a gift of love in the form of a shoe box in the last two decades. To some of these children, the small shoe box contained the first gifts they have ever received. To others, the box contained essentials that they had never owned before. To children whose lives were forever changed as their families fled to the mountains from the terror of Isis, this Continue Reading
