Today was the final day of our two-wheeled bike ministry. Now we will turn our undivided attention towards our hand-pedaled three-wheeled trike program.
We passed all our inventory on to Working Bikes in Chicago who we have partnered with some over the past few years. They would pick up beyond what we could repair. (more…)
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Today after 8 years of working with 2-wheeled bicycles we are ending the bicycle division of our ministry. We are narrowing our focus so we can concentrate on our hand-pedaled three-wheelers we affectionately call trikes.
The first pickup today was from World Relief. They picked up the last 6 adult bikes. We have partnered with World Relief since 2006 and have provided over 600 bikes to refugees and immigrants in DuPage County.
World Relief Pickup
Tonight I, Alice got a knock on her door and there were recognizable faces but I couldn’t remember where I knew them from. Back in 2009 and 2010 this missionary family came by and got about 8 bikes. They loaded them onto a vehicle headed for Mexico. One of their ministries is camp work and one of the program options is bicycling. Every year students have the privilege of using bikes at camp thanks to His Wheels International.
Alice joined Nancy Turner on Moody Radio’s This is the Day program with Nancy Turner. Alice shared the new direction of His Wheels International.
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.
Spring Arbor University (SAU) has an Enactus chapter on their campus. You can read more about Enactus by clicking this link http://enactus.org/. One of the three projects the SAU students presented at the Regional Competition in Chicago this April was a way to keep the trike project in India sustainable.
In the presentation below you can see the multimedia component of their presentation they showed during competition. The SAU students won first runner up in their division.