It's Really Happening...on March 5

There has been a bit of change in the past few months. In early December I asked my boss, David, if he could find a replacement for me so that I might be able to ride with the Bike For Burundi crew (www.bikeforburundi.com) I told David that I would not leave my position unless they found a replacement before January 9. I was praying hard that there would be a good candidate to replace me, but surprisingly, not many people applied for my job. There was, however, a great candidate who applied and was offered the job in early January. I was super excited, but then he rejected the position! I was slightly discouraged, but still had hope. It was a huge blessing and relief when my boss David called me on January 3 to tell me that he had hired someone!

This, however, left me out of work until at least the end of the bike trip around early April. The people out here at St. Christopher Camp and Conference Center were great to me however, and they said that I could live and work out here in the facilities department until the bike trip. That's what I am doing now. My temporary job pretty much now consists of painting, fixing random things around the camp, and moving equipment for people who actually know how to do technical things such as carpentry and plumbing. It's pretty great to have a 2 month temporary gig out here.

Around Valentines Day I will be leaving here and will be moving to Greenville, SC for 2.5 weeks before flying to LA to begin the ride. The point of this is so that I can see my valentine :) and then train in the mountains of the upstate. It will be much more effective training up there because if you are not aware, Charleston is about as flat as it gets. Even though my legs feel pretty fit from the training here, the low country is not exactly preparing me for successive 100+ mile days in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

In other news, I'm getting really pumped up about what we are raising money for in Burundi. The man Simon that I will be riding with wrote a great book called Dangerously Alive, which is about his experiences there for 10 years as a missionary. It truly inspired me to ride so that more people in that nation can know the love of Christ. Check out the book Dangerously Alive here.


Exactly 6 weeks until the trip. Let's do this!