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Today’s email connection

  By AT | July 1, 2019 - 9:19 pm |
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Today His Wheels International received the following email. “Hello. I am an RN and the President of a non profit charity . . . making a big impact in resource limited areas in Africa. In November 2019 our team will travel to northern Ghana to start a project called the ‘Ability Project'” They partner with an ngo there and have been talking about trying to build hand-pedaled tricycles as the need is great and they are very difficult to find. She has acessed the HWI’s blueprints and wondered if we have a trike to send with them. She wrote, “Thank you for what you are doing! L”
 
After talking by phone, we shared our trike coloring book pages and our first hand-pedaled trike children’s story for them to use as they also do disability awareness and literacy

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.

Hope Deferred

  By AT | September 25, 2018 - 11:35 pm |
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Here is a short article Alice wrote for her church. It give a glimpse into His Wheels.

A Hope Deferred

Today’s post comes from Alice Teisan, a member of Church of the Savior.

I had a dream in 1992 — a hope – to lead cross-country bicycle trips. I was four days from going on a ten-day, 1,000-mile bicycle trip, when struck by a life-altering illness.

Proverbs 13:12a says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” John Gill’s commentary from the 1700s described my situation accurately: “If [hope] is delayed any length of time, the mind becomes uneasy, the heart sinks and fails, and the man is dispirited and ready to despond, and give up all hope of enjoying the desired blessing;” My physical reality was out of my control. But, making sure my heart didn’t become bitter toward the Lord would require taking drastic measures, which included regular prayer and intentionally putting on the armor of God (Eph. 6:10-20), to name just two of the many spiritual disciplines I practiced.

Delayed gratification is an invitation to enter into grief, a place where our heart can pulsate with our Savior’s, as we become more like Christ. Isaiah 53:3 says, “He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness.”

Preparation for Kingdom service requires a time of separating the wheat from the chaff (Matthew 3:12). An unknown future ushered me into God’s schoolroom where I would gain the necessary tools for being effective in the Kingdom work awaiting me. There I began learning how to die to myself while relying on Jesus through faith. In the furnace of affliction, I learned that all he required was my obedience.

The gift of dashed hope challenges us to refocus a little more heavenward, whittling away at life’s comforts. Here in this broken and sinful world, our focus on the goodness of a Sovereign Lord becomes a little clearer and we become more acquainted with the mysteries of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter who lives within each believer.

My 1992 dream — to bicycle in all 50 states and on all seven continents (even though by then I had biked coast-to-coast twice, through 30 states and also on four continents) – was too small. God edited my first draft but kept the basics: a love for cycling, traveling, serving, etc. His edited Kingdom plan came in 2005, when I founded His Wheels International (HWI), a Christian bicycle and hand-pedaled tricycle organization. But before his Kingdom plan, there was soul work to be completed.

Instead of having the thrill of cycling the world, I look forward to hearing one day in heaven how HWI was able to mobilize God’s work worldwide through bicycles and tricycles. I proclaim with Solomon, “A dream fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12b).

To learn more about His Wheels International, visit the website www.hiswheels.org