::Wheels For The World

The ROCC joined forces with Wheels For The World in early 2009 and is an official wheelchair collection site for this very special ministry. We have collected many wheelchairs, walkers and canes throughout this year and are eager to grow this ministry on even a bigger level.

Through the help of Charlie Terrill, we are able to take these wheelchairs into our local correctional center where inmates are trained to restore a wheelchair to a like-new condition. The inmates learn to work together, perfect basic mechanical skills, and produce a product of which they can be proud. Hardened inmates have been moved to tears when they see the happiness in a photo of the face of a little boy or girl receiving a wheelchair of their very own. After the restoration process, they are then shipped out to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the disabled around the world by providing wheelchairs and sharing the love of Jesus Christ.

The World Health Organization estimates that there is a need for 20-30 million wheelchairs around the world. In some of these countries the cost of a wheelchair can equal a year's wages, resulting in the impossibility for people affected by disability to ever receive one. Living in isolation, lacking simple mobility and cut off from life, many of the disabled are also tragically cut off from the local church. As a result, many have never heard the gospel message or experienced the love of Christ.

The ROCC is very proud to be connected with Wheels for the World, a Joni and Friends' flagship wheelchair outreach program. If you have any wheelchairs, canes, crutches, walkers or other rehabilitation equipment that you would like to donate, please contact the ROCC office at 417-935-9111.