November 2010: Wheaton Evangelical Free Church (WEFC) partnered with HWI. We look forward to ministering together, providing our immigrant local neighbors with bicycles while also providing a tool for expanding Christ’s Kingdom.
December 2010: Seth, a talented video artists spent a day filming for a new HWI DVD.
New Year’s Day 2011: As we at HWI said Good Night to 2010 in Wheaton, a container was pulling into Soddo Christian Hospital in Ethiopia. The container contained our first crate trike shipment filled with one completed trike and 15 trike kits. It was an Ethiopian leader who sparked the vision for our trike division back in 2005.
We packed the crate within the first week of being in our new Headquarters. What an exciting way to end 2010 and simultaneously begin 2011, having the trikes arrive in Ethiopia! See the full story at our blog. See address below.
February: Seth had finished the first cut of the DVD. We as a team were able to view it and give input. He still has to do the final editing of the DVD. Pray that God’s gift of creativity and inspiration will infuse Seth as he finishes this project. It is our desire that the DVD would glorify God and portray the ministry of HWI in an accurate, inspiring, and informative way.
February 18th: A second trike went to Maxene in Haiti. He received our first trike rode the trike so hard he broke one of the tubes. This helped Kevin identify a weakness in the frame and he made the needed changes. We wanted Maxene to do field testing on the revised trike version. In addition, we sent a trike repair kit so a welder could fix the first trike and allow another person to have wheels.
February 20th: I spoke at a Sunday potluck at Church of the Great Shepherd in Wheaton.
February 25th: HWI was featured at a Mission Fun night at Naperville Presbyterian Church. The trikes went to Haiti with a group from that church.
February 26th: Board Meeting. The majority of the meeting was spent going over the budget, which is a difficult but necessary part of an organization. In 2010 we had $41,000 come in. Our goal for 2011 is $75,000. Thanks for your part in helping us meet our financial obligations and remain debt free.
March 1st: We finished our Trike Specific Brochure and sent a copy to I-TEC who partnered with us last year. I-TEC will send out information about our trike program to those who inquire about their various programs. The I-TEC slogan is, “Our ministry begins where the road ends.”
March 3-6th: We had a booth at the “Mission on Your Doorstep Conference,” held at Wheaton Bible Church.
March 19th: We had a workday. Ten people attended, five of which were new to HWI. We hope to institute regular workdays where individuals and a variety of church groups can come together, exercise their talents, and use their strengths to further His work through HWI.
March 24th: A Master’s level leadership class from Wheaton College will take place at our headquarters. I will be the guest lecturer.
April: Our one-year anniversary in our headquarters. The building has allowed us to expand our ministry. We have been able to work through the winter getting bikes out every week to World Relief.
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