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- What's your connection to the Ride:Well Tour?
- Cross-Country Cyclist, Advocate, Friend of Blood:Water, Friend of Venture Expeditions
- About Me:
- I'm a cyclist and a co-leader on the 2010 Ride:Well South Tour..
Here's the copy/paste bio:
Anne Jackson has traveled all over the world using online media to tell stories of those living in poverty. In the last two years, the readers of FlowerDust.net have generously contributed over $355,000 to charitable causes.
She is an author, speaker, and activist who lives in the Nashville area with her husband, Chris. Her critically acclaimed book, Mad Church Disease – Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic (Zondervan) released in February 2009. Her next book, Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession and Grace (Thomas Nelson) will be released in August 2010.
- My Website:
- http://flowerdust.net
Anne Jackson's Blog
Welp (Big Gulps...)
A day that seemed so far in the future the first time I hopped on my bike and attempted riding it down Fair Street in downtown Franklin.
A day I thought would never come, and at the same time, once the trip started, a day that I knew would come too soon.
Most of the team has headed out - some by… Continue
Posted on July 26, 2010 at 7:30am — 3 Comments
THANK YOU! (Century Ride Update!)
AND...we had OVER $1000 pledged!!!!!!!!!!
I must have been high on adrenaline because I didn't hurt much at all (until I made it to the church) but everything is good and the heart rate behaved for the most part (Thanks, Dr. Moreland in Dallas for the medicine adjustment… Continue
Posted on July 8, 2010 at 9:30pm
Sex for Clean Water
Children? Women?
Guess who typically holds the responsibility for walking miles daily to fetch water when there is no source available?
Children and women.
When our cycling team shares about how clean water helps communities become more educated, we talk about how children can go to school instead of having to spend their days walking to and from a water… Continue
Posted on July 7, 2010 at 7:31pm
When God Isn't...
Anyway, I thought I had it figured out, this "God showing up" thing. In my fantasy I was leaning head-down into the wind, pathways of sweat cutting across my face and rolling off into… Continue
Posted on June 27, 2010 at 1:08pm — 2 Comments
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I was reading you blog and thought of two things. One, I'm thoroughly excited for you (and the rest of the team) to experience the Tour. Two, you should read the book Bike for Life:How to Ride to 100. I was the mechanic on last year's tour, and this book taught me a TON about long distance riding, and riding in general. You'll love it.
Be richly blessed!
Peace,
Tyler