Photoblog 12-10-06
Dec 11, 2006 Uncategorized
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Every year, my friends coordinate and take part in a program called Faith, Hope, and Love. My friend Coats used to work and an abused-teens center in LaGrange. At this center there are about 7 teenage boys whose parents have basically abandoned them, and so they live at this home. This also means that at Christmas time, there is no one to get them any presents. Well, that is where we come in.
We have the kids make a “Christmas Wish List”, with about $250 worth of things they really want on there. Then, we find people to sponsor them by either just donating money, or actually going out to buy the gifts.
Once that is all done, we set a date to drive down to LaGrange and physically deliver the presents and cook a massive feast for the kids. That is such an awesome thing because we get to have dinner with them, and then actually see their expressions when they open the presents. They are so grateful, even for the smallest things, and it does a great job of putting things in perspective for me.
So, that being said, my Sunday School class sponsored one of the kids. So today (actually, yesterday from when I am typing this), we went shopping for the kid. In the picture, we are at Old Navy getting some polo shirts that were on his list. We also scoured the Gwinnett area looking for Nike Air Force One shoes. We found them, and then scratched out heads at how these shoes could be $80, but whatever. They are not for us.
Merry Christmas!
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