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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Shoe-Per Bowl Scores for Good Cause

The biggest national football battle is over, but a lasting outcome of the game is continuing from Wildwood this week and sending a ripple effect to Africa.

After Sunday evening, West St. Louis County-based Shoeman Water Projects had 2,803 more pairs of shoes from Living Word United Methodist's third annual 'Shoe-per Bowl Party' in Wildwood headed toward ensuring more people in Africa will have the chance for clean water. Rich Kim and his wife, Nancy, of St. Peters, MO, attended the Shoe-per Bowl Party at Living Word Sunday to meet with the several hundred teenagers about the mission of raising funds for clean water in Kenya from selling new and used shoes that are donated, like the pile that accumulated at the Living Word altar Sunday. Admission for attendees of the Shoe-per Bowl Party is donated shoes, that volunteers, such as the Kims, come by during the game's halftime and pick up. He told…

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