News Release:
This news release is an example that you can use for your church or organization’s newsletter and your local newspapers and TV stations.
To use:
1. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate information.
2. Submit the release and photos to your organization’s newsletter at least two months before your drive. Follow up with a phone call to make sure they are going to run the article and answer any questions.
3. Submit the release and photos to your local newspaper at least two weeks before your drive. Follow up with a phone call to make sure they are going to run the article and answer any questions. Make sure they understand why the drive is important to you personally.
4. Mail a copy of any articles to Rachel Garton, Shoes for Orphan Souls, 600 N. Pearl, Suite 2000 Dallas, Texas 75201 for our records.
Pray for Shoes for Orphan Souls
Please pray for the children living in orphanages throughout the world and for those individuals who are working to collect shoes.
Donate to Shoes for Orphan Souls
Your gift will provide a pair of new shoes to a needy child overseas. Many of these children have never owned a new pair of shoes.
Volunteer with Shoes for Orphan Souls
Volunteers are needed to travel overseas to deliver the shoes to the children. We also need volunteers to host shoe drives and to help process shoes.
Shoes for Orphan Souls, a ministry of Buckner International, provides new shoes and socks to orphans and at-risk children in the United States and throughout the world. From conducting shoe drives to humanitarian aid trips, Shoes for Orphan Souls offers hands-on opportunities to individuals, groups and organizations that want to transform lives through social ministry. Since 1999, more than 1.8 million pairs of new shoes and socks have been distributed to 68 countries. Buckner is a fully accredited non-profit organization with IRS 501(c)(3) status. Your gifts to Buckner are tax-deductible as allowed by the IRS