Wheels 4 Meals

Kenya

$15,082

Amount Raised

About this Fundraiser

The initial event was held on Saturday October 10th and raised over $8,000! That is over 50,000 meals for the children in Nakuru. But that is not the end of this campaign. Support continues to pour in and the organizers have decided to continue raising awareness and collecting funds until the end of the year! Will you help us towards our goal? Every donation helps!

Wheels 4 Meals

Who

People who love Jesus and want to serve Him. Everyone who wants to help feed children in Kenya. Bicycle enthusiasts. Fundraising enthusiasts.

Where

Oak Hill Park, St Louis Park, MN -

3201 Rhode Island Ave S, St Louis Park, MN 55426

What

A bike fundraiser to raise money to feed the kids that live in the garbage dump in Nakuru, Kenya. Because of the impact COVID has had on their community, people have no food. We can buy them nutritious meals at only $0.15 each.

When

Saturday, October 10, 2020

100 Mile riders ARRIVE: 6:00 - 7:00am - Long Ride Participants arrive, check-in,

7:15am - Long Ride Line Up

7:30am - Long Ride Starts (100-mile ride)

31 Mile Riders ARRIVE:

1:15pm - Short Ride Participants Arrive, Check-in,

2:15pm - Short Ride Line Up

2:30pm - Short Ride Starts

6:30-7pm - All Rides End

7:00pm-8:00pm - Dinner/Closing Ceremony/Bonfire

If you want to participate and are not local and would like to participate from ANYWHERE you CAN! Create your own route and register (see below for more info)

Why

To bless children who live in a world so different from our own, where the everyday comforts we enjoy aren’t available to them. To love them like Christ by providing healthy meals to sustain them, just as Christ fed the 5,000 and called the little children to come to Him.

How

By participants biking and raising money through sponsorships for the meals

REGISTER HERE

By non-participants raising money for meals through donations

By donating through Pure Charity

By sponsoring a child through Living Stone Global Foundations for about $30/month https://www.livingstoneglobal.org

By volunteering to help with the Bike Event

HOW TO RAISE FUNDS

It's simple, register at Wheels-4-Meals Bike-a-thon Tickets (Your registration fee goes to your T-shirt and funds towards meals for the kids)

Create a profile and share your personalized giving link with those who are interested in sponsoring you.

Directions to create a profile:

Go to this link - https://www.purecharity.com/wheels-4-meals - Scroll down slightly, on the right hand side of the page, click on the orange “Fundraise for this Cause” where you will be able to begin building your profile.

Reach out to friends and family to sponsor you via your customized link.

If sponsors wish to give by check, direct them to make checks payable to

Living Stone Global Foundation

Turn in checks at registration on day of event or mail to:

Living Stone Global Foundation

P.O. Box 3292

Arnold, CA 95223

Please take a moment to read Bethany's story about WHY she is organizing this fundraiser

Last fall, I did something I'd always dreamed of - I went to Africa.

I volunteered at a school called the Maisha Mapya Learning Center in Nakuru. The most beautiful thing about the school was the 200 children that walked through the Maisha Mapya gates every morning for school.

The most difficult thing was that every evening, they returned to their homes which were located in a challenging and sometimes unsafe environment - the local dumpsite.

Let me tell you about one of my favorite memories. It was a sunny day at 10 o'clock and it was time for porridge. (For many of the children, it is their first meal of the day.)

While the children were in line for food, I grabbed my guitar and sat down in the grass by the kitchen.

What happened next almost made me cry….

I started playing a song I had taught the kids. SO many kids ran over and sat close by my feet.

After a couple minutes, there were about 30 kids around me with cups of porridge in their hands - pushing to get closer. Others were trying to touch the guitar with their sticky fingers. For some, this was the first time they had ever seen a guitar. One little girl was getting pushed out of the circle, I stopped playing.

"Hey, let's be kind, no pushing,...let her come closer."

I could imagine Jesus saying these very words: “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14 It was a beautiful moment to hear these children singing!....

Jesus tells the children to COME; they are precious in His eyes, heart and soul, and if they are precious to Him....then they are precious to me too! This is why I now sponsor a little girl from the dump site to help her attend school.

What breaks me is that many children in Nakuru, Kenya, between the ages of 11 and 18, are forced into transactional sex to get money for food! No one should have to live and be treated that way!

Today, I am inviting you to come, join me, and love these children and their families by providing some much-needed food. COVID has hit the community hard. All the hotels and restaurants are closed, so there is no trash being taken to the dumpsite. Everything that sustains the families comes from the garbage. Without trash being brought to the dumpsite, these precious kids have no food to eat.

We want to feed this community and their families. So we are hosting a bike race! This bike race will raise support to provide nutrition-packed meals at a cost of only $0.15 each!

Think about that!? For the cost of a burrito and a coke, you can buy 65 meals for hungry kids in Nakuru.

Will you help me feed them?

Full tummies, full hearts.

"He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you do for one of the least of these, you did for me.' - Matthew 25:40

Not Local but still want to bike?

How to participate if you are not local

to St.Louis Park, MN and or live out of state -

It's simple, get a group of people together or bike by yourself - register at Wheels-4-Meals Bike-a-thon Tickets (Your registration fee goes to your T-shirt and funds towards meals for the kids)

Pick a date and a safe route

Create a profile and share your personalized giving link with those who are interested in sponsoring you.

Directions to create a profile:

Reach out to friends and family to sponsor you via your customized link.

If sponsors wish to give by check, direct them to make checks payable to

Living Stone Global Foundation

Turn in checks at registration on day of event or mail to:

Living Stone Global Foundation

P.O. Box 3292

Arnold, CA 95223

Bike your heart away!

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