Where did the socks go?

609 pairs were raised during the sock auction in December... Janie dropped off the socks the week after the auction; here's her awesome experience!

since we raised so many socks (hooray! God is so good!) mission possible was able to use the socks for two of their major christmas time events that week. the day i dropped off the socks, they were going to pass out ~200 free sleeping bags to people who received vouchers during a church under the bridge service or received them from people who went to the service. 3 groups of about 20 volunteers from a few local churches came in shifts to help pass out the bags + our socks! there was also a large donation of beanies, so mission possible reps were really excited to be able to offer people from the streets warm sleeping bags and accessories this christmas. apparently, a lot of the people who attended church under the bridge gave vouchers to their friends, who rode the buses with them to receive their bags.the rest of the socks were saved for a special christmas eve celebration/bible study that they held that week. usually, the center invites people on the streets to attend a bible study on tuesday and sleep at the center for the night, but they decided to move that week to christmas eve so that people would have somewhere to spend christmas morning at. they were expecting a little over 300 people to show up for the bible study/christmas night stay, so it turned out we raised the PERFECT amount of socks for their christmas activities that week! pretty exciting!

it was cool because i got to talk to some of the volunteers (including people who used to live on the streets) while waiting for the socks to be...whatever it was they needed done to them...and got to hear some really interesting stories. and it was really encouraging to see so many people coming during their holiday break to help pass out sleeping bags to people. the person coordinating the even was saying how this was a huge change from having only 2-3 people organizing this event last year.