{"id":9708,"date":"2011-04-21T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9708"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","slug":"day-156-sentimental-t-shirts-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9708","title":{"rendered":"Day 156 – Sentimental T-Shirts (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I found these t-shirts in a box of “keepsakes” some months ago and I put them aside because they do have sentimental value and I wanted to figure out a way to keep them.\u00a0 But now there’s this\u00a0ginormous clothing drive<\/a> happening at our church and they are sending the clothes to Kosovo and Honduras.\u00a0 I’ve decided that\u00a0much better than these shirts rotting in some box for years in my own possession would be imagining them on the backs of some brothers in Kosovo or Honduras!\u00a0 These shirts will get to see the world!\u00a0 And they’ll have a real purpose again. The first one is a t-shirt I designed for my good friend, Tim Price<\/a>, back when we were in seminary.\u00a0 He had just written a bunch of original songs and then recorded them on a CD called “Come to Know”:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The front pocket logo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The back of the shirt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

These other two shirts were designed by friend named Aaron.\u00a0 Have you ever known a TRULY unique individual?\u00a0 The sort who deserves to have a book written about him or her?\u00a0 That’s Aaron.\u00a0 (As a matter of fact, he DOES appear in a book … called “Beyond Fear”<\/a> – the story of Aaron and his friend, Joel, crossing Papua New Guinea without use of a motor when Aaron was just 19 years old!\u00a0 They budgeted one month’s time for their adventure … and\u00a0it took 100 days!\u00a0 And along the way, they cheated Death about 4 or 5 times each.) Anyway, for security sake, I\u00a0probably shouldn’t go into\u00a0the details of how and where I met and worked with Aaron, but I can tell you these t-shirts were designed by him some time ago\u00a0to be wearable by believers\u00a0in a part of the world where outward expressions of Christianity are, shall we say, severely frowned upon…<\/p>\n\n\n

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I get a real kick out of the thought of these shirts, with their\u00a0covert Christian imagery, making the rounds of Kosovo or Honduras a few months from now.\u00a0 Bon Voyage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found these t-shirts in a box of “keepsakes” some months ago and I put them aside because they do have sentimental value and I wanted to figure out a way to keep them.\u00a0 But now there’s this\u00a0ginormous clothing drive happening at our church and they are sending the clothes to Kosovo and Honduras.\u00a0 I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9712,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions\/9712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}