Home |  My Page |  About Spoke   Contact / Donations Below are the most recent news articles. To see the archived articles, scroll to the bottom of the page. NEWS Presentations Published: February 06, 2009 For an idea of what a presentation will include, see "Quitting Is Not An Option." Date Location Group Contact November 15, 2009 Community Fellowship Church Adult Sunday School Dorothy Funk November 15, 2009 Community Fellowship Church Morning church service Ramsy Unruh November 13, 2009 Morden Motor Inn Men's Breakfast Abe Dyck November 6, 2009 MB Legislature Carleton Breakfast Club Bob Baron November 1, 2009 Springfield Heights Church Sunday Morning Service James Schellenberg October 27, 2009 CMU Missions Day Tabitha VandenEnden October 2, 2009 Cycle 4 Change Urban Youth Adventures Cornelius Buller September 27, 2009 McIvor MB Church Adult Sunday School Jake Klassen September 6, 2009 Scott Street MB Church St. Catharines, ON Art Loewen July 1st, 2009 Decor Cabinets Employees Larry Dyck April 19th, 2009 Calvary Baptist Church, Emo, Ontario Youth Group Conrad Dueck April 18th, 2009 Calvary Baptist Church, Emo, Ontario Men's Breakfast Conrad Dueck April 17th, 2009 Emo G.I.F.T. (Growing In Faith Together) Debbie Friesen April 17th, 2009 Linden Christian School Chapel Dave Heinrichs April 9th, 2009 Bergmann's on Lombard MCF Banquet David Unruh/Arvid Loewen March 10th, 2009 Canadian Manufacturing & Exporter's Conference (CME) Breakfast (Motivational Address) Ron Koslowsky February 25th, 2009 Rowandale Baptist Church Senior's Group Mark Woods February 17th, 2009 MBCI Chapel (Grades 6-12) Steve Dick February 12th, 2009 River East Collegiate Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (Gr. 10-12) Melanie Dyck February 8th, 2009 River East MB Church Adult Education Class Rick Schmidt December 9th, 2008 Douglas Mennonite Church Youth Group Paul and Jeanette Loewen November 18th, 2008 King's School Chapel (Gr. 7-8) Peter Todd October 8th, 2008 Larter's Golf Course Breakfast with Charles Mulli Arvid Loewen September 8th, 2008 NKMB Church Sunday morning service Vic Neufeld Quitting Is Not An Option Thirty months ago I resigned from my job of 31 years with Palliser to put all my efforts into creating awareness and raising funds for a street rescue mission in Kenya, Africa. Ultra-marathon cycling has become an effective platform to share my passion to help the the orphaned and abandoned children. My most recent event was RAAM, Race Across America. Here are a few examples of what a presentation could include. Any presentation would include pictures (power point) and, if time allowed, a very effective 15 min DVD about Mully Children's Family. Presentation length could vary from 15 minutes to 45 minutes (plus questions?). I have all my own equipment, so location is flexible. Presentation: (sample) Historical data states that only about 50% of us would reach Annapolis within the allowed time of 12 days. The temperature in the Mojave desert soared to well over 40 degrees Celsius, resulting in severe cramping in both legs and hands. Processing of much needed calories was not possible under those conditions. We were only six hours into day one of a 12-day race. Welcome to RAAM. Welcome to a crash course in learning to cope with adversity. Quitting is not an option... RAAM, Race Across America is a single stage 5000 km coast to coast bike race across the USA. It is known as the world's toughest bike race (www.raceacrossamerica.org). By day six, my neck muscles could no longer hold my head up. I could not see the road in front of me without propping up my head. An ingenious brace built out of PVC tubing by my crew (my family) helped hold my head up for five more days of racing. Quitting is not an option... Despite severe sleep deprivation (I averaged 2 hours and 15 min every 24 hours) I reached the east coast in 11 days, 3 hours and 19 minutes, 10th overall and first in my category (ages 50 to 59). We raised $215,000.00 for orphaned and abandoned street children rescued by Mully Children's Family. Charles Mulli was one of those abandoned kids. He became a wealthy businessman but gave it all up to go back into the streets where he came from and offer hope to those that have none. Today he is a father to 2000 former street kids, with another 3000 having already been equipped to become contributing members of the Kenyan society. See www.mullychildrensfamily.org or www.mcfcf.ca. Quitting is not an option...... In 2005 I transported three teenagers from MCF across Canada (www.spoke2005.com). As part of our mission representing poverty I carried a picture of a little girl named Charity with me. Two attempts had been made on her life by her own mother before she was a couple of months old. This was just another picture of a child in need, the kind we make go away by changing the channel or flipping the page in a magazine or newspaper. In November of 2006 my wife Ruth and I visited MCF and sat in on one of the evening programs. A little girl jumped on my lap. She sat and played with my white fingers. It happened to be Charity. I had carried her picture for 30 days and 7000km across Canada. Now she sat on my lap for 30 minutes. It was at that time a picture of a child in need became a real person. God removed the wall of indifference with which I had surrounded myself. I am so thankful that God opened my eyes to see past the picture to see the child. He also removed the fabricated belief that the problem is so big, that my efforts don't matter. They matter to Charity, they matter to the hundreds and thousands who have been rescued by Mully Children's Family. My message is simple: When you see a picture of a destitute child, allow God to show you the child instead of the picture. When that happens, the actions required to make life-changing transformation happen will follow. They have for me. My own story, shared in a way to promote the Charles Mulli story seems to be an effective, inspirational, as well as challenging topic for all ages. For references call: Peter Todd 204-989-6581 Principal of King's School David Dueck 204-339-4110 NKMB Church Caregiver If there is interest to have me come and share my story (and Charles Mulli's), please see contact information below. Thank you, Arvid Loewen 204-996-8758 info@spokeimpact.com ...because it matters to this one... Quitting is not an option .... when God has called you to help care for the destitute, orphaned and abandoned children rescued by Mully Children's Family. << Back Archived Articles >>   2010  © copyright spokeimpact.com