This summer, Cedarville sent everyone in the entire freshman class a book called True Religion by Palmer Chinchen. In his book, Palmer talked about how his church had a 'barefoot Sunday' where he encouraged his entire congregation to wear their favorite shoes to church, leave them at the altar, and then go barefoot the rest of the day. The purpose was obviously to raise shoes, which they then gave to people in Africa. Over 1 billion people in the entire world do not own a single pair of shoes, and that is a very sad fact.
Someone in our freshman class had the idea of us having our own 'barefoot' day here at Cedarville to collect shoes. And when Palmer came and spoke at our school on Thursday, that is exactly what we did! Although it was rainy and cold, a lot of us spent the day walking around without shoes. We even raised over 3,000 pairs for Palmer to take to Liberia with him next summer!
Palmer speaking
People praying over the shoes for the people who would be receiving them
God is working in amazing ways here! I am so proud to be a part of this school :)
Check out this link for a video about what went on:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/pages/video.html?video=/videos/2011/09/08/cedarville-students-go-barefoot.xml
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