{"id":825,"date":"2009-07-22T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T11:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/07\/video-hawk-nelson-and-toms-sho.html"},"modified":"2009-07-22T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T11:49:06","slug":"video-hawk-nelson-and-toms-sho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/07\/video-hawk-nelson-and-toms-sho.html","title":{"rendered":"Video: Hawk Nelson and Tom&#8217;s Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, even I admit that this video is blatant promotion for Tom&#8217;s Shoes, but when the company is committed to giving away a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair of shoes you purchase, I can&#8217;t help but share it.<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/taaCHS5ShIk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/taaCHS5ShIk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object>I&#8217;ll be honest. The first time I heard that a company was committed to giving away shoes I thought, &#8220;Shoes? Really? What about food? Water? Medicine?&#8221;<!--more-->Then I learned more and it started to make sense. In many countries in the world, people walk everywhere they go &#8211; to the river to get water, for days to get medical treatment. The chance for injury and disease are great, simply because people don&#8217;t have adequate footwear.I mean, really. The things we take for granted, living in a developed country. Imagine if you had to walk five miles a day over rocky, dirty, hot terrain, just to get water, which you then hauled back in huge jugs. Imagine that there was a clinic available where you could get life-saving HIV or malaria medicine, but the journey took three days each way by foot.  You&#8217;d be wanting a pair of shoes, too.(Or if you had to walk barefoot to get to Starbucks for your double mocha decaf no foam latte; oh, the tragedy. Really, have you ever considered how easy life is here in America? But I digress.) <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/06\/hawk-nelson-toms-shoes-providi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Like I told you in June, Hawk Nelson <\/a>has committed to providing 5,000 pair of shoes to children in Haiti through Toms Shoes and the company&#8217;s &#8220;One for One&#8221; philosophy. Throughout July, the guys will be hosting six &#8220;Style your Sole&#8221; with Toms Shoes, doing live in-store appearances in cities where the band is playing this summer.You can learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/hawknelson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hawk Nelson&#8217;s website.<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GospelSoundcheck&amp;loc=en_US\">Click here to subscribe to Gospel Soundcheck by email <\/a>and have the Gospel Soundcheck headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. 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