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| Carol's feet get their 15 minutes of fame |
In preparation for the holidays, and as a bit of a fun flashback, Carol and I wanted to share with you some fruit from our experiences at Empowering Lives International (ELI) in Ilula, Kenya where we spent a little over three weeks in August and September.
If you will recall from our ELI update post, Don Rogers gave us the incredible honor of visiting with Wilson Kipsang, who went on to set the world record in the marathon later that month. Well, as he drove us back home from Wilson's training center in Iten, Don described a fundraiser concept that he hoped would challenge people a bit physically as they got excited about contributing to the projects at ELI. He called it "10,000 Steps" in the hopes that people would commit to walking this number of steps between November 22nd and December 8th as a way of raising support.
Anyway, he described to us the way in which he was hoping to get the word out for the fundraiser, so a few days later I got out my camera and Carol got out her legs and we corralled a few of the younger kids from the Children's Home and took a few photos. The poster image that you see above and on the ELI website is the result of that day, and we have to admit that we are fairly proud to have been useful in this way. We even put together a 10,000 Steps Team so that our legs could be not only photogenically, but physically fit as well, so if you fancy some preemptive burning of turkey, stuffing and marshmallow smothered yam calories, please feel free to join our team. There are no prizes, rules or consequences for not succeeding (which I realize isn't motivating for everyone), and I know there are some of you (to whom I might be related) who can knock 10,000 steps out in a few hours, but for a lot of people this is a real (and possibly welcome) challenge. If you do need a bigger challenge, you could always try 100,000 steps, 10,000 steps per day, or something along those lines. Let me know what you decide to do though, because I want to know how many steps my team does!!!
So, have fun walking (we will), and keep finding new and demonstrative ways to be thankful for the grace that you have been shown, in this life and the one to come. We will be thinking of all our friends and family a lot as the holidays approach, and hope that each of you are very well and full of joy.
-joe & carol
...So... I assume somebody would know if Joe and Carol are imprisoned / captured / teleported / dead?
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Brewe,
DeleteWe are writing to inform you that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stevick are in a non-imprisoned/captured/teleported/dead state, and are apologetic for any concern this may have caused any other persons during the extended time period which has elapsed between journal entries. We appreciate your concern, and have several updates pending. The map below accurately reflects our current position on the planet.
Regards,
Joe
Thank you for your prompt reply. A few thoughts come to mind however, the first being that I do not have any idea where the hell Ilula is. Second, small red dots near Nepal do not assist me in overcoming my lack of geography skills. Finally, while I am excited to know that these red dots accurately reflect your current global position, as there is no date attached to said dot, it is impossible for me to know where that red dot falls temporally in relation to any particular post. That is all. Glad you were not abducted by aliens, I hear the probes are a real pain in the rear...
ReplyDeleteDear Sir,
DeleteThank you for your astute observations. In deference to your logical frustrations with said "small red dots" and self-proclaimed lack of geography skills, a time-stamp will now accompany each dot on the map. Clicking on the small red dot will reveal this time-stamp, indicating the date of arrival at the specified location. We hope that this satisfactorily remedies the issue, as we value your attention to our travels considerably.
Our sincerest regards in this matter,
The Management