Rhonda grew up making yearly trips to the southern area of West Virginia. It’s there that many of her relatives still reside and have given her the best of those simple and pure childhood memories. Hours of laughter & tears. And some of the the most wonderfully quiet (yet squeaky) chained porch swinging episodes are forever burned in her memory bank. The roadtrips never failed to have atleast one radio airtime playing of the famous lyrics “West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country road!” There’s something very, very special about the people in West Virginia. For starters, you can expect to consistently receive a hearty greeting upon walking into an establishment . Then there’s the official term for a soda - “pop” and the famous slogan “I’d say so & ya’ll come back now ya hear”. And if you haven’t had the pleasure of eating the best southern bisquits & gravy breakfast, on a classic melamin plate, while sitting on a front porch overlooking a crystal clear creek, then your truly missing some of the finest down to earth fellowship in the world!
Well some folks from WV have proven themselves again in being friendly, selfless and so gracious in their simple giving spirit. The youth of Brake Brethren Church
http://www.cob-net.org/church/brake.htm
not only collected hundreds or shoes, but they also collected hundreds of dollars in spare change to help offset the cost of distributing the shoe donations! This was such a blessing to S2S in helping to complete the mission of getting the shoes to their recipients. As we collect more shoes, the cost to distribute them increases - so thank you to our new friends in WV for the insight & leading to take S2S on as a project in full circle. And thank you to the Howard family for sharing the S2S mission with your family in WV and traveling back & forth to get the donations to Delaware. Your appreciated and admired in so many ways!
This month we received many individual donations, being dropped off at our warehouse. Lots of email inquiries to host shoe drives have come in and phone calls with questions on how to get involved. One group in particular went the extra mile, The Pike Creek MOMS Club,
http://www.geocities.com/pikecreekmomsclub/home.html
who mailed a monetary donation to S2S and with plans to kick-off a shoe drive soon. Thanks ladies for your dedication in being moms and for sharing with us the gift of giving! The small mountains (more like one big hill) of Pike Creek in Delaware obviously shares the same qualities of the large mountains of West Virginia!
Friday, August 24, 2007
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