World Vision One Life Tour & World AIDS Day

Most of you reading this blog know of my passion for and involvement with World Vision. If you live anywhere near where I do in Southern Ontario there is an experience you need to be a part of. World Vision has put together an interactive African village that gives us the chance to step into the shoes of a real person living in Africa and see the struggles that they have to deal with. I had a chance to participate in it when they had it set up in Nashville and it was powerful. I know how it made me feel (sad, angry, frustrated) but it is real life and it’s something we all need to be aware of. So as Christmas approaches and if you have the chance, check out the World Vision One Life Tour while it’s in Kitchener Ontario December 1st - 9th and learn more about what your sponsor child may be growing up with or how you could help a child. For more info here’s their web site. Check out this link to see what people are saying about it after they have completed it.

While I’m on the topic of World Vision you should know that World AIDS Day is coming up on December 1st and World Vision has some great ways for us to be involved. Check out their site to learn more about what’s going on and how to be a part of it.

The video below will give you a glimpse into what the event looks like. Enjoy!

Glenn

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A New Idea!

More to come on this later but I'm excited about this so I'm mentioning it right away. We have been planning on putting together a Team Downhere running club. Here's the beginning stages of what it will be about.

The purpose of Team Downhere is to Condition, Connect and Contribute. We want to Condition ourselves physically, mentally and spiritually to be in the best shape possible. We want to Connect with each other so that we can encourage one another and help each other along in this journey. We want to Contribute by having others benefit from all that we do as Team Downhere.

So as we travel around with downhere we'll let people know where we are and hopefully be able to get a run in with some team members. Beyond that we'll have marathons and half marathons that we'll participate in where we will try to help others in need through the organization World Vision. For instance, the goal chosen ahead of time for the team could be to help a community that is in need of clean water by raising enough money to dig a deep well for them. Or the goal may be to help some families by providing specific farm animals or even enough animals to start a farm for themselves. As a team working towards this we believe we'll be able to accomplish much.

We also want to help people get started running and give people who are already running motivation to keep going. Things like developing training programs, and creating regional running groups are some of the things that we think would be beneficial.

Now what I'm extra excited about is that we are planning our inaugural run to be in Nashville April 2008 and we just secured a Team Downhere $10 discount for the run. So now it really feels like the wheels are in motion.

I'll write more as we get the main web site up and developed. We're still working on how everything will work but I was bursting and thought some of you would like to know about it!!

If this interests any of you drop me a comment or tell me in person and I'd love to tell you more about it.

GL

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