Shoes continued...

Emma and I ended up helping about 25 sunday school kids learn about shoes. Emma painted some really awesome canvas (stripes to keep it simple) that was cut into shoes. When I showed her the video with the jiggers and the foot cleaning she asked a million questions and made me replay it about 5 times. Emma was a great helper and I think this may have turned out to impact her more than I had expected! Now her bedtime prayers include being thankful for all of her shoes:-)

Sole Hope

This week has been busy mostly with stuff from my glorious commitment to Sole Hope. Tonight Emma and I are flying to South Florida to visit family and to take all of the sunday school classes at his church through the process of making the uppers of our shoes. Sunday night we will do it with the youth group and monday we will do it with my mothers classes in the attached grade school.
Between that and all of the amazing interest folks have shown in hosting their own shoe cutting parties and Emma getting sick - its been a tough week to decide where we should give service. Then I thought why don't I have emma help me...So this week she will be painting canvas that will be made into shoes and also helping to pass out fabric and supplies to all of the 100+ kids! I am also planning on showing her the video that was Sole Hopes inspiration so that she understands a little more. For months I have been trying to explain why I have been working on this project and she likes to say "some kids don't have any shoes on their shoe shelf." But, I am excited to show her the video too.

First Day of Service!!!

Today Emma and I had our volunteer orientation at Brother Wolf and then stayed for a while and gave attention to some cats and dogs that seemed very happy to have some love!
All afternoon Emma has been talking about why the dogs didn't have mommies and daddies to take them home from the kennels at night. Its brought about some great dialog! It was a fun time to spend together and certainly something we will do again and again. The dogs and cats loved the attention...pretty awesome day for us too!