What do all of these have in common? Believe it or not Shoes!! The news is filled with stories and pictures from Iraq and Afghanistan. But for nearly ten years we’ve been fighting another war. US troops serving thousands of miles from home for nearly ten years somehow we almost never hear about, for the most part we have forgotten them. However what is even sadder are the people of Kosovo that we have forgotten. Good news is that our service men and women haven’t forgotten the people of Kosovo especially the children
The YMCA of Norton connected local people with men and woman serving in Kosovo, through Adopt a Soldier Project, which connected Kim Whynacht of Norton Massachusetts and Faith Fellowship United Methodist Church of Mansfield Massachusetts. The idea of this project was to “help the service men and women deal with the separation by giving support to the soldiers and their families.” However! The soldiers had other ideas.
Kim Whynacht and Faith Fellowship United Methodist Church (FFUMC) adopted SPC Guido Alberoni Fermin, and family of Haverhill, MA. In addition to sending support items to Alberorni, Kim and the Church sent Birthday, & Christmas gifts to his four children and his wife, and sent out packages to his children on Holidays, (like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter etc). SPC Guido Alberoni Fermin is serving with Task Force PATRIOT
Things changed in the end of May, Alberoni emailed Kim “that the children of the village he was in needed shoes.” Kim rallied the Church in the first week of June and started to collect shoes for the children in Kosovo. Seeing that the need of the children overseas was urgent, Kim contacted the office of Rev. Gary Shaw. District Superintend of the Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts (RISEM) District of the United Methodist Church. The RISEM District office contacted the seventy United Methodist Churches in the district to help collect some shoes.
Shoes started to come in from all over the district, from Northern Rhode Island to the tip of Cape Cod. By the middle of July the first shipment of shoes was mailed. For the next two months the flow of shoes coming in never seemed to stop. In addition to the shoes and socks, the church also sent a couple of boxes of school supplies to the children, (the YMCA collected the supplies and sent them). Mid September was the cut off for collecting shoes, when the last box was packed and mailed the church had collected and mailed 530 pairs of shoes to one village in Kosovo. That’s 1060 Happy FEET!!!.
Reaching out is not hard, It just takes one step, “the first step”.
This project shows how simple we can change the world, make an impact, and most importantly share Jesus and His Teachings with the world.
For more information go to the following websites;
Task Force PATRIOT http://kfor8.com/
The YMCA of Norton connected local people with men and woman serving in Kosovo, through Adopt a Soldier Project, which connected Kim Whynacht of Norton Massachusetts and Faith Fellowship United Methodist Church of Mansfield Massachusetts. The idea of this project was to “help the service men and women deal with the separation by giving support to the soldiers and their families.” However! The soldiers had other ideas.
Kim Whynacht and Faith Fellowship United Methodist Church (FFUMC) adopted SPC Guido Alberoni Fermin, and family of Haverhill, MA. In addition to sending support items to Alberorni, Kim and the Church sent Birthday, & Christmas gifts to his four children and his wife, and sent out packages to his children on Holidays, (like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter etc). SPC Guido Alberoni Fermin is serving with Task Force PATRIOT
Things changed in the end of May, Alberoni emailed Kim “that the children of the village he was in needed shoes.” Kim rallied the Church in the first week of June and started to collect shoes for the children in Kosovo. Seeing that the need of the children overseas was urgent, Kim contacted the office of Rev. Gary Shaw. District Superintend of the Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts (RISEM) District of the United Methodist Church. The RISEM District office contacted the seventy United Methodist Churches in the district to help collect some shoes.
Shoes started to come in from all over the district, from Northern Rhode Island to the tip of Cape Cod. By the middle of July the first shipment of shoes was mailed. For the next two months the flow of shoes coming in never seemed to stop. In addition to the shoes and socks, the church also sent a couple of boxes of school supplies to the children, (the YMCA collected the supplies and sent them). Mid September was the cut off for collecting shoes, when the last box was packed and mailed the church had collected and mailed 530 pairs of shoes to one village in Kosovo. That’s 1060 Happy FEET!!!.
Reaching out is not hard, It just takes one step, “the first step”.
This project shows how simple we can change the world, make an impact, and most importantly share Jesus and His Teachings with the world.
For more information go to the following websites;
Task Force PATRIOT http://kfor8.com/
The Village in Kosovo http://afreditaschool.webeden.co.uk/
Faith Fellowship UMC http://www.gbgm-umc.org/faithfellowshipumc
11th Hour Church Ministry http://11thhourchurchturnaround.blogspot.com/
UMC of New England http://www.neumc.org/
Faith Fellowship UMC http://www.gbgm-umc.org/faithfellowshipumc
11th Hour Church Ministry http://11thhourchurchturnaround.blogspot.com/
UMC of New England http://www.neumc.org/
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