
Be a Light: Biking for Babies and SEEK24
We’re meeting 17,000 young adults on fire for changing the world at SEEK 2024! 🔥 Stop by Booth 229 to see how you can use your gifts to serve others with us.
We’re meeting 17,000 young adults on fire for changing the world at SEEK 2024! 🔥 Stop by Booth 229 to see how you can use your gifts to serve others with us.
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another” (Proverbs 27:17). My entire life, I have been around individuals that took this phrase to heart – mainly in the way of athletics. The reality was as an employee, coach, or player, you won or lost as a team and that was understood. I am thankful for the experiences I have had in athletics because each team I worked with focused on building a community which allowed every single coach and player to push each other in a respectful and honest environment.
“PRAY vigorously for our missionaries. They will be told countless lies in the months leading up to the ride and countless more during it. We are told, ‘For the Spirt God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline.’ (2 Timothy 1:7) The storm is ahead my friends, but, with your help, our missionaries will meet it with joy. And they will not listen to the whispers of the wind. They know, fear, he is a liar.” Kevin Biese
Today, we all have an opportunity to give alms to the poor by supporting charities and non-profits financially, and I feel blessed to give that support to pregnancy resource centers. To “give back” to our faithful supporters, I’ve created a few digital pieces of art to encourage you on your pro-life walk, and to remind you that you are not alone in upholding the dignity and value of life.
Some of the riders have shared their favorite parts of the 2016 national ride! Click to read more of the stories from riders Clare, Jonathan, Michaela, and Chris!
Life Network of Southern Illinois is more than the trying effort of a single group of people. Life Network of Southern Illinois is more than the trying effort of a single group of people. It is a community effort coordinated and led by Debbie Geist and her hard-working teammates of paid staff and volunteers. The community and myself are proud to stand (and pedal!) behind them—churches and pastors of various denominations, the Catholic Diocese of Belleville, many proud residents of Waterloo and the nearby towns, and of course Biking for Babies.
“I wanted to give interested riders and support crew members a peek at the nitty gritty of Biking for Babies. What does pro-life really feel like?”
“I know you recognize that we have a messy world, and that mess presents itself in different ways: poverty, starvation, hatred, abortion, sexual abuse, violence, conflict, divorce, loneliness. I think we each recognize that the world needs changing, but the real question is: What are YOU going to do about it?”
“If you went to the March for Life event this year, I sincerely say, “you rock!” But if you believe that is all you are called to do for the “pro-life” cause, then I am here to challenge you…Sweat, bleed, and hurt for the one who feels hopeless.”
“We are willing to hurt, to help, and we invite you to join us, one prayer, one pedal stroke, at a time! Eternity is worth the pain, especially when it hurts.”
In this first period of formation, the young adults:
With eyes now opened to the need and Christ-centered solutions of problems, these young adults are sent forth as “missionaries” into the rest of the formation program and into the rest of their lives, committing to live with the truth of the Gospel of life as the lens through which they see every relationship, every decision, and the world at large.
In this second period of formation, the missionaries
In this last period of formation, after the National Ride, missionaries