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Bikes for Sunshine Gospel Ministries

  By AT | June 28, 2013 - 11:06 pm | , ,
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Last Tuesday Shawn came out to HWI headquarters from Sunshine Gospel Ministries on the south side of Chicago. We have partnered with Sunshine for several years. We loaded 26 bikes into this trailer and 16 bikes into this truck bed.

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Making a Difference

  By AT | June 14, 2013 - 5:39 pm |
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Today the Outreach Community Center’s case worker brought two young men by to get bikes. Thanks to a government grant these students will work 25 hours/week this summer for pay. Both of these young men have been in the OCC summer at risk program. They have now graduated from High School in the Class of 2013 and plan to go on to College of DuPage in the fall. One hopes to pursue his dream of architecture.

We had the privilege of providing these young men with bikes so they could get to their summer maintenance jobs. They are putting away money so they can one day trade in their two wheels for a reliable four wheeled vehicle. But for now they were so glad to have a reliable set of wheels that will help them pedal towards their dreams.

The End of our Bicycle Division

  By AT | June 12, 2013 - 7:15 pm |
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     As of June 1, 2013, His Wheels International (HWI) will no longer be accepting bicycle donations. We
are winding down the two-wheeled bicycle aspect of our ministry and plan to end the bicycle division by September 14, 2013.
      I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have had a part in our bicycle division. Thanks
for directing people towards HWI who have had bicycles to donate, time to volunteer, and for a variety of
other reasons. Thanks also to those of you who have donated bicycles, surplus stock, tools, and accessories.
I also want to thank you for lending us your professional expertise and also for helping us get the word
out about our ministry. Without your assistance, we never would have been able to touch so many lives in our community, throughout the United States, and internationally with our bicycle ministry. As a team,
we have distributed almost 1,700 bicycles that we have collected and our mechanics have rehabbed so we could recycle them to those in need of basic transportation and for many their first set of wheels in the United States.

Glen Ellyn Evangelical Covenant Church Women’s Mini Retreat

  By AT | April 13, 2013 - 7:06 pm |
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As we think of recapturing our dream I want to begin by asking some questions:

• Are the Road Signs in your life pointing towards your Dream Destination right now?

• What is a dream destination you have/had at one time envisioned for yourself?

• What Roadblocks, dead end signs, impasses, or alternate route bypasses have put a death to your dream or caused you to lose your way?

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