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Sunday, February 6, 2011
God Feet provides entire Mexican orphanage with shoes
The first 'faith-inspired flip flop'
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
Shannon and David at the orphanage
QUEEN CREEK, AZ (ANS) -- God Feet, a new business venture that focuses on faith, feet and flip flops recently traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, for its first-ever "flip flop drop", providing an entire orphanage with shoes.
According to a news release from God Feet, over 300 million people around the world do not own a pair of shoes. God Feet says that it is the first ever "faith-inspired" shoe company, whose sole purpose is to serve God while helping those in need of protection for their feet. For, every pair purchased, one is given to someone in need.
Now a team from God Feet has been to the Mexican border town this month to visit the City of Angels Orphanage, handing each child their very own pair of God Feet.
A young boy with his new flip flop
God Feet provides entire Mexican orphanage with shoes
The first 'faith-inspired flip flop'
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
Shannon and David at the orphanage
QUEEN CREEK, AZ (ANS) -- God Feet, a new business venture that focuses on faith, feet and flip flops recently traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, for its first-ever "flip flop drop", providing an entire orphanage with shoes.
According to a news release from God Feet, over 300 million people around the world do not own a pair of shoes. God Feet says that it is the first ever "faith-inspired" shoe company, whose sole purpose is to serve God while helping those in need of protection for their feet. For, every pair purchased, one is given to someone in need.
Now a team from God Feet has been to the Mexican border town this month to visit the City of Angels Orphanage, handing each child their very own pair of God Feet.
A young boy with his new flip flop
"We were so honored to get to spend some time at the City of Angels Orphanage. It was such a gift to see the huge smiles that the kids have when we hand them their very own pair of God Feet," said Shannon Gillette Vice President of God Feet.
The venture began when David Gillette began thinking about God Feet in 2008 after learning that the leading cause of disease in developing countries is soil transmitted parasites caused from walking barefoot.
David designed a simple business plan - design a quality, stylish, faith-based flip flop that does not currently exist and sell it to consumers. For each God Feet flip flop that is purchased another will be sent to one of the 300 million people worldwide in desperate need of footwear.
The God Feet team at the City of Angels Orphanage in Mexico. Left to right: Jen Galindo (volunteer), Brandon Andree (Director of Design), Miranda Andree (Executive Director), Alana Whitmarsh (photographer), Shannon Gillette (Vice President), and David Gillette (President/CEO), along with some of the children Shannon told the ASSIST News Service, "My husband conceptualized God Feet in 2008 and through partnerships with designers and manufacturers, spent the last few years developing the perfect, stylish, quality, faith-inspired flip flop. We didn't want to start selling until we had the perfect product.
"Our first order arrived in December 2010 and then we launched at our home church, Rock Point Church in Gilbert, AZ, on December 19, 2010. We sold 250 pairs on the first day, which is such a blessing because now 250 men, women and children around the world will be getting their own pair of God Feet."
She added, "We hope to visit Haiti sometime this year for another flip flop drop. In addition to our own drops, we have church-sponsored mission teams taking God Feet with them all over the world with planned trips to Africa and Honduras in 2011. God Feet expects to give away over 10,000 shoes in 2011."
For more information, contact:
Shannon Gillette
Vice President, God Feet
480-518-6885
Shannon.Gillette@GodFeet.com
www.GodFeet.com
Dan Wooding, 70, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 47 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. He now hosts the weekly "Front Page Radio" show on KWVE in Southern California which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Besides this, Wooding is a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 200 countries. You can follow Dan on Facebook under his name there or at ASSIST News Service. He is the author of some 44 books. Two of the latest include his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, press this link. Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, has also recently released his first novel "Red Dagger".
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