Monday, February 20, 2012

Ride Kenya with a Bishop

The man in the bike helmet and on a new bike is Bishop Nixon Dingili.  Bishop Nixon oversees the Free Methodist Churches (FMC) in Kenya. He plans to join our Bike Kenya 2012 team as we pedal 600 through the northwest sector of his country in May.  The secondary school in Koi Barak, which our ride is raising funds to build, is under the auspices of the Kenyan FMC and International Child Care Ministries (ICCM).  We welcome Bishop Nixon to our team!

Bishop Nixon and our team members in the USA are training and making preparations for the 11-day ride in Kenya.  There are lots of arrangements in the process and we are all getting pretty pumped for the event.

Until March 1, our Bike Kenya 2012 is still open for three more participants.  The cost will be approximately $3200 per participant (includes roundtrip airfare between Chicago and Nairobi and all in-country expenses in Kenya--food, lodging, transportation support, fees, etc.).  In addition, each team member commits to try to raise funds to build the Koi Barak school.  I have a Fact Sheet I will immediately email to anyone interested in participating.

If you have signed up for / requested to participate in Bike Kenya 2012, but have not heard from me within that past two weeks, please contact me immediately. I am in contact with seven participants, but I just want to make sure I have not overlooked any early responders.

Please match our "sweat equity" with a per-mile contribution of 10c, 25c, $1 or other per-mile donation.  That's why we're pedaling: to raise awareness and funds for this educational endeavor.  That, and for the sheer joy and beauty of it!  Use this link to contribute right now (it takes you to ICCM's Special Projects page; scroll down for Bike Kenya 2012 giving options)!

Keep coming back to our site!

John Franklin Hay
Indianapolis, Indiana
johnfranklinhay@yahoo.com

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