Pakistan Contact

  By AT | December 18, 2018 - 4:09 pm |
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As Evvy Campbell, a Wheaton College Professor Emeriti said, “Development work is accomplished one relationship at a time.” Today Alice had a conversation with a relief worker in Pakistan who was interested in exploring possibilities with His Wheels trike, while working within an Anglican Church structure there. The networking tentacles for this went far and wide. Alice attends a local Anglican church who partners with the same relief organization locally. There was the opportunity to share about NOWPDP, a Muslim organization in Pakistan who ran a trike building contest back in 2016-17(?), which Alice and HWI were part of the International judging board. Then there was Katie, a missionary who we encouraged along the way back in 2007, who built a rugged wheelchair there. I sent this new contact a picture of the trike, which I’m including below. The other networking pieces were our contacts with Universities who bring a variety of discipline expertise that they are willing to share with His Wheels and their students. Pray for God’s hand on his development work through one relationship building opportunity at a time.

HWI sent plans to Pakistan. Katie & team built this Wheelchair

University Contacts

  By AT | December 18, 2018 - 3:55 pm | ,
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Yesterday Alice had a great time interacting with our Messiah College contact. Through the relationship building times we’ve spent, Messiah sent us a contact to a student at Taylor University (TU). We have had a trike at TU for some time, but due to a variety of things student trike projects haven’t taken off. After talking with our Messiah contact, Alice talked with a TU student about a trike project as he explores junior and senior engineering projects. Please pray with us for God to use His Wheels for his glory in his ways and his time.

The Impact of a Coloring Book Page

  By AT | November 12, 2018 - 6:15 pm |
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While at The Compass Church yesterday, Big J, our trike ambassador, who lives with Down’s Syndrome, came up to Alice and said, “Big A (as only he can do!) and with a big grin on his face handed me his colored trike page. I was overcome with joy by such a precious gift from my friend, who has been advocating for His Wheels Trikes since our inception. It was as if I’d been given one of the best Christmas gifts ever.

Thank Big J for sharing your big heart and your coloring skills with me. It will hang on my fridge, protected in plastic.

This coloring sheet is impacted lived around the world already, and yesterday it made a full circle as Big J handed his colored sheet back to me.

If you haven’t downloaded your coloring page yet you can do so by clicking here.

 

Saturday, Oct. 20th Maker Day Report

  By AT | October 22, 2018 - 9:33 pm |
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The Maker Day was great. I thought there were lots of people who visited us in the 3 hour time slot at Wheaton Public Library. Today the presenters received an email that said,
“Hi, Presenters!
 
Thank you all for being a part of our first Maker Day! We had a blast. All we heard from attendees was how much they loved all the stations!
 
We estimate that between 400 and 600 people attended the event. You all touched so many people in our community and helped them learn something new. We truly couldn’t have done this without all of you.
 
We’re hoping to make this an annual event so if you’d like to be a part of it in the future or know someone else that would love to have a station, keep your eyes out for information next year.
 
Thank you again. It was wonderful to meet all of you and I hope you had as much fun as we did!”
 

October Newsletter

  By AT | October 19, 2018 - 5:50 pm |
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A Timely Word

In the midst of the long silence, I received an encouraging note from Rev. Alinani Waya, a Tanzanian pastor. “Greetings in Jesus name. I am one of the pastors whom you, Mama Alice, sponsored with a bike (back in 2008) and I thank you so much for your help. The bike has been helping tremendously with pastoral visitations of my church members. I thank Pastor Joel Songela, who God used as the bridge. Thank you, thank you, thank you. God bless you.”

Here is the rest of the October 2018 Newsletter

 

Coloring Book Page

  By AT | October 18, 2018 - 6:56 pm |
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Thanks to Kristina Matson, an art student at College of DuPage, we have our first coloring book page. We will have the coloring book page available this Saturday for the Makers Day at the Wheaton Public Library.  It is also a big step towards our next dream of having a coloring book and an illustrated children’s book.

Feel free to make copies of the colored .pdf copy and the coloring pdf copy and use it for disability awareness in your own group.