Give a Hoot, Fill a Boot!

April showers bring May flowers.  Here in South Sudan the showers have started and will continue daily for at least 8 months.  This is good news because this is their planting season.  The dry season is not good for growing as was evidenced by scarce produce in the market for the past 3 months.  However, the rain brings a few problems such as mud, hidden obstacles, and various critters such as snakes.

My Home Team has started a Boot Project to raise funds to buy "gum boots" (rain boots) for two UMC orphanages here in Yei.  The children walk to school (and everywhere), and work daily in the fields hoeing, planting, and harvesting.  The boots will protect them from rocks and debris that are hidden in the muddy potholes (there are no paved roads or paths), and from the critters that are hidden in the bush.   Boots cost $6-$8 a pair which need to be purchased here.  Mainly because there is no way to ship them over here in a timely, cost effective way.  

You can help support this project in several different ways:


1.  Put cash or check in one of the rain boots you find in your area.  As of now there are boots in Florida at St. Paul UMC 1199 Highland Ave, Adam and Eve Day Spa 8000 Seminole Blvd, Seminole, Yanny's by the Highland Publix, and Golden Bear Restaurant Missouri Ave, Clearwater.

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2.  Write a check or give cash in Florida to Megan Armstrong or Darlene Coburn, and in Georgia to Dawn Dysart.  (Contact information below.)

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3.  Put a boot out at your location (boot or collection agent with a picture of a boot on it).  Contact Megan for more details.

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4.  Send a donation to The Mission Society and designate the funds to go to my account for the Boot Project from the link on this website.

All proceeds from the boot project will go directly to buying boots for the children.  If there is money left over from buying boots it will be used for other items needed to protect the children from the rain:  i.e. closed toed shoes, umbrellas, ponchos, etc.   

For further information in Florida please contact Megan Armstrong at 727.776.4943 meganarmstrong235@yahoo.com, or Darlene Coburn at dar567@tampabay.rr.com.  In Georgia contact Dawn Dysart at 770.853.6086 dysart4@att.net.

Thank you to everyone who was inspired and helped put this project together.  Many children will benefit from your kind heart and generosity.  

I also want to say thank you to all of you have supported my ministry in Yei.  I can not do this without your servant heart.   I have been here almost 6 months and have only scratched the surface of what I feel like I am called here for.  Please pray for the country and the people here!  The political powers need to be in alignment with God's will for this country (as our country as well!), they need economic stability, they need peace in their land internally, and they need to trust God for His protection and provision.  I pray that South Sudan "will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God."  Romans 8:21

Love and Blessings,

Carolyn