'Soles' help 'souls' on Los Angeles’Skid Row
Whittier area church members give the ‘gift of shoes’

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries

WHITTIER, CA (ANS) – “Amy Gunther went to church Sunday morning wearing a pair of black ballet flats. But she and hundreds of others left in their bare feet. The 22-year-old Downey resident and hundreds of other parishioners at Whittier Area Community Church responded to a call from their pastor to donate much needed shoes to LA’s homeless on skid row.”

(To read the entire story of what happened in July 2009 at Whittier Area Community church, near Los Angeles, click here.)

TAKE MY LIFE…AND MY FEET!

With your small group, sing this familiar hymn by Frances R. Havergal (or download your favorite version from iTunes). Make a list of what you could offer to Christ (“Take my life, my hands, my feet…my shoes…”).

Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee.

Take my voice, and let me sing always, only, for my King.
Take my lips, and let them be filled with messages from Thee.
Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect, and use every power as Thou shalt choose.

Take my will, and make it Thine; it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart, it is Thine own; it shall be Thy royal throne.
Take my love, my Lord, I pour at Thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for Thee.