Saved Life Partners with Comfort Socks

Saved Life: Coast to Coast is proud to announce our partnership with Comfort Socks. We are expecting our first shipment of socks to reach us in Tallahassee. Comfort socks distributes their socks free of charge less shipping…Saved Life will be responsible for the shipping fees.

“Comfort Socks is a 501(c)3 public charity that collects new socks from individuals, schools, companies, and apparel manufacturers. We then distribute the socks to non-profit organizations that serve homeless people and families. Our mission is simple – Comfort- It just feels good to put on a new pair of socks, and we believe this warm and comfortable feeling can help to ease the pain of someone who feels lost or forgotten by this world. Socks are an important part of health and a constant need for homeless people, who are mostly on their feet, and do not change socks on a daily basis – Comfort Socks is working hard to make socks always available to those in need – In addition to supporting our local shelters – Comfort Socks stretches its service to homeless shelters coast to coast, across the United States. Comfort Socks also recognizes that sock drives encourage kindness and purpose for young and old alike, so that ultimately, the comfort these socks bring can be enjoyed soulfully by the provider and recipient.”

Quote from Comfort Socks Website

Shipping fees are based per box shipped. Each box contain approximately 150 pairs of socks. The cost to ship each box to Saved Life to distribute on the streets of each city we visit is $30. Each pair of socks cost us $.20 each. Your simple donation of $5 could provide clean socks, a life necessity for those living on the streets, to 25 homeless men, women, and children. What a difference we can make!

So…I ask you to help us to help them! Sign-up for our “Make Every Mile Matter” Campaign and help us make a difference to someone today! We are not asking for much. A simple donation of $5 could affect the lives of many.




Another fine example of unity in action! Join us!

For more information on Comfort Socks please vist http://www.comfortsocksonline.org

“A Mile In Their Shoes”, Day 3, Jacksonville Florida

Clara White Mission, Downtown Jacksonville, Sunday morning

Today has been another wet, rainy, and windy day for the homeless of Jacksonville, Florida. We have just arrived at the library to catch up on some administrative tasks before heading back out to the mission field. After handing out all of our socks, toiletries, and other goods to the homeless Sunday morning, we ask for your help in keeping our supplies replenished. For the most part, Saved Life has been self-sufficient in financing this campaign. Mostly, through personal loans that have been taken out. We are asking for your help! We are asking you to get involved! Please join our blog if you already hadn’t done so. Over the next few weeks as we get settled into this journey we will be bringing you more footage, more often of what we are seeing on the street. Raw and uncut!

Homelessness is everyone’s problem. It is not a problem that will simply go away by ignoring it or by throwing money at it in hopes it will go away. It takes compassionate, caring, and gentle individuals who really care about these people to make a difference in their lives. We are not asking you to give up your lives and form a mission trip like we have. We are simply asking you to get involved. Someone once said “the measure of any society is based on how they treat their weakest link”. Well…the statistics, news reports, blogs, and every other media network on homelessness issues pretty much explains it! I will let you decide your own opinion and keep mine to myself. The bottom line is we need your help to help them. We need your donations of socks, toiletries, clothing, Bibles, and canned goods to help those in need. We also need your help in making our vision for a “Cities of Refuge” become reality. These “Cities of Refuge’s” will provide these men, women, and children a safe place to get back on their feet and provide the specialized treatment model suited for their needs. But, more importantly, it will give them a place to call home.

We need your help! Please go to our Get Involved page and donate $5 towards helping one of these street people we encounter. Millions of dollars have been pumped into Haiti and other third world countries. What about the men, women, and children starving here without THEIR basic needs. Some of whom fought for the very freedom we enjoy everyday. My conscience would not allow me to sit idly by and watch them suffer a slow death when there was something I could do about it! Will you join me?

See ya on the road,

Jason


Make The Miles Matter! Thank you!