Tomorrow is our last day of our Ride for Mobility campaign. We are resting up for a joyous finish. We will start at 11:00 AM and take up to 3 ½ hours to do the 28 miles, mostly downhill as we follow the San Gabriel River down to the Pacific coast, and then turn south along Huntington Beach to Irvine and Mariners Church, for a reception barbeque where we will recap the highlights of our journey. My dream is that hundreds of you join Mike and me for the last leg of this amazing campaign. We are so thankful to Readers Digest for their support!
 The demands of this last week met my expectations. Note the photo showing the temperature on the truck mirror. I am in awe of the capacity God gave the human body. As long as we kept drinking water, crossing the desert and the mountains from Phoenix to here was enjoyable. It is hard to believe how great warm water tastes in the desert!
I learned a lot about myself and a lot about life on this trip. Everywhere we went, people were interested, often fascinated by our mission. We passed out so many of our brochures. Many people donated “on the spot” having just heard about us the first time. Other contributed later, probably after checking out our website.
I am inspired that my fellow Americans have a place in their hearts for the disabled in the developing world. This ride washed the window of my faith and provided me with renewed motivation, that we can place 20,000,000 wheelchairs. We really can. All we need to do is to communicate our mission in enough ways and enough times. We have a solution, our wheelchair, and we have an extremely efficient means to distribute this solution. Our battle is right here, in our own country. $44.40 to change a life – forever.
With every wheelchair we place, we win, we change a life – forever. They get a chance for a better life, we get the joy, and God gets the glory.
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