Love in Action

Love in action.

Follow the life of Christ and you see His love, always in action.

Still in action.

We too, demonstrate the love of Christ through action.

Introducing some action…

The Samaritan's Purse shoebox project.

Near and dear to my heart.

Throughout the year I collect things.

Bouncy balls, baby dolls, and toy cars

Toothbrushes & toothpaste, Soap & washrags

Lollipops, gum and hard candy

coloring books & crayons

and everything else a child may love.

Then comes the day…

We invite neighbors and children and after school

Cookies, milk and Christmas music set the stage.

We line my living room, 

spilling into the den, 

with 50 empty shoeboxes.

We then become an assembly line

One

By

One

Slowly filling empty shoeboxes to overflowing.

Our volunteers pray over the boxes

oh the sweet prayers of our children

Praying for blessings for children they will never meet.

Praying for the needs of children they do not know.

The boxes are mailed all over the world.

To refugee camps

war-torn areas,

and now, we know, to orphanages.

For in a little orphanage

in a small country

halfway across the world

peeking out from underneath a desk

I saw it.

a shoebox

In the orphanage. 

Where

 My

 Daughter

 Lives.

A box of toys and prayers 

given for an unknown child.

An unknown child whom 

I 

NOW 

KNOW.

And love.

I have seen the faces of the children 

who receive these boxes.

Beautiful faces. Difficult lives.

In need of love.

Love in action.

You can be part of love in action RIGHT NOW!  

Click below to donate to the 21 Days of Hope page 

for children with Down syndrome!

21 DAYS OF HOPE