Tuesday, August 13, 2013

MY HEROES

While I have been pedaling my brains out and avoiding being roadkill in traveling from the Pacific to the Atlantic, a small, select team has been quietly changing the world.  I am so proud of them.   The dream team that just signed off on "mission accomplished" included a teacher, six high schoolers, two financial investment reps, and a surgeon.

Each of the team raised at least $3,000 each, put their summer activities on hold, said good-bye to friends, family and vacations and travelled 11,000 miles from home in order to lay bricks and slap dugga on walls under a hot African sun side by side with new South Africans and Afrikaan friends.  In the end, another family has been offered a hand-up, not hand-out toward a more productive, empowered life.

What a great team.   By comparison to the all-too-often ho hum summer same old, these missioners have been extraordinary.  Hats off to you, Drew and Dan and the entire Montana Mission Team for changing the world this summer.

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