A Great Day for a Miracle!
God gave us a beautiful day for the Miracle 25 triathlon bike-a-thon, walk-a-thon and Kid’s Fun Triathlon. By the end of the day over $21,800 was raised for refuge. This came up to $26,725 in the week that followed. These donations help to advance our cause of gospel driven prevention of human trafficking in Southeast Asia, providing funds especially for refuge for 24 children in the Uncountable Grace Myanmar home. This came in addition to a generous provision of $25,000 (a matching donation) early on for the Turning Point Youth Centre in Meadow Lake.
We couldn’t have done this without the generous support of many people and volunteers from the Lower Mainland of BC to Alberta, to Saskatchewan and even Manitoba. Thank you! It also took many volunteers to help make this a fun event for the people.
We also are deeply grateful for the prizes donated from these Meadow Lake businesses:
- Home Hardware
- Co-op
- No Frills
- Meadow Lake Golf Club
- The General Bait and Tackle Store
- Fields
- Red Apple
- Giant Tiger
- Geek’n Out
- Madills
- Solitude
- Abundant Living Health Food Store
- Parkland Dental
We want to give a special shout out to two participants from the Meadow Lake area (Dwayne Voth and Trevor Howell) who raised up many sponsors. Dwayne completed the 10km walk on stilts (no easy feat!).
Every participant walked received a custom cut medallion. Big thanks to Darren and Lynda Letkeman for helping us make these custom cut awards.
Other organizations who provided assistance and a lot of fun we are grateful for are:
- Meadow Lake Fire & Rescue
- Meadow Lake Ambulance
- Meadow Lake RCMP
- Flying Dust First Nation
- Meadow Lake Aquatic Centre
The fire department and ambulance crews brought out their mascots, Sparky and Trauma-Sorus . With Dwayne on stilts they formed part of the Kid’s Fun Triathlon. The United Church volunteers and Flying Dust First Nation helped our bike-a-thon participants safely cross the roads and highway. The fire department’s slip-and-slide was a huge hit at Lion’s Park.
Many volunteers helped make the Kid’s Fun Triathlon a special day in the Meadow Lake Aquatic Centre and with games, face-painting, and tons of activities at Lion’s Park.
Martin Bishop provided excellent service with sound and music. Live praise and worship rang out from the Pineridge Ford Theatre. Rob and Judy Griffioen spoke on how God led them into the cause of gospel driven prevention of human trafficking with GNI Ministries. Stories were shared of hope for broken lives and marriages . The Good News of Jesus was proclaimed.
All in all, we count this the Miracle 25 fundraiser a great success and thank God and all who participated and gave for this provision. – Rob & Judy Griffioen