They worked hard, loved well, and impacted a lot of people. Here’s an overview of our fall ‘10 Convoy of Hope Intern team. It’s a longer video where you meet each team member. Proud of each of them:
Archive for December, 2010
Giving shoes to Grace
On December - 10 - 2010
Grace has shoes
In the midst of one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, I watched Grace get shoes.
In Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, we ventured to the heartland of the Masai people. The Masai are a proud tribe of beautiful people with a semi-nomadic culture about which many books have been written. There, our Convoy of Hope interns spent time with some big thinking pastors to partner with them and their churches to show compassion throughout the valley.
It was there we encountered Grace. I’m not sure of her age, but she’s a beautiful follower of Christ who was taking care of her younger siblings. Our team connected well with her, and noticed she didn’t have shoes. While Grace isn’t the only teenage Masai member with no shoes, she was the one with whom Shannon, a 18-year-old intern, was speaking. Shannon had more than one pair, so why should Grace have none?
That day, in a gesture that some might consider small…Grace got shoes.
There’s a lot of places grace needs shoes…amongst the hurting, ashamed, poor and wounded. I want to be like Shannon, ready with any small/medium/large gesture to make sure she has them.
Standing Grace, with her siblings
