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India Bike Trip to Raise Funds for Hospital in India
In early 2007, a 5-person cycling team will ride from the southern tip of India (Nagercoil) to New Delhi, a di stance of approximately 2,000 miles. The sponsored ride — some 100 kilometers a day for six weeks — will seek to raise much-needed funds to rebuild Umri Christian Hospital, an aging medical facility serving rural India. The international team, to be led by Bob Yardy of Champaign, IL, will include Bishop Joe F. James (originally from British Columbia, Canada), Pastor John Hay Jr. (of West Morris Street Free Methodist Church, Indianapolis, IN) and two as-yet-unnamed riders from India. The group will raise awareness and donations in communities along the route and provide a daily blog at www.bicycleindia2007.blogspot.com for supporters in the U.S. and elsewhere who want to pedal vicariously through the Indian countryside. A presentation and fundraising effort (the team will have an operating budget of $25,000) was the highlight of a recent chapel time at the Free Methodist World Ministries Center ( WMC) in Indianapolis. Cyclists James and Hay arrived on their bikes and shared their vision and watchword: "Watch and be utterly amazed, for I am going to do something in your days that you will not believe even if you were told" (Habakkuk 1:5). WMC employees contributed some $150 to the project.
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