IC3 Visitor From Minnesota

Tim (our visitor), Michael, Jimmy, Todd and Fernando

Tim Turnquist from the Twin Cities Spoke visited us last week. On Friday he rented a bike and rode up Mt. Lemmon with Lou passed the Palisades. It was his longest climb this winter for him because back home, he is mostly riding the trainer or commuting to work. What a blessing to live here in Tucson and be able to ride all year around.

On Saturday we met at Broadway Bicycles and rode out Old Spanish Trail. Tim told us that they had something called the Snipers Ridge, so we had to take him up to Pistol Hill and hammer up that hill. We had to work on the way to Pistol Hill, but once we turned around we flew back down, because the wind assisted us a little.

After the ride we went and got a little cake and coffee for recovery and shared about our Spoke life. Even though the Twin Cities Spoke has many more members, the challenges are similar, just on a different scale. What a blessing it was to spend time with another brother in Christ from our club from another part of the country.

24 Hour Race Breakfast '12

 "And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.” But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” And they said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.” He said, “Bring them here to Me.” Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained. Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children." Matt. 14:13-21

We went out on Saturday afternoon to the 24 Hour Race, not to race, but to help with the breakfast on Sunday morning. We have been providing breakfast for the last 3 years to riders, volunteers and visitors of the race. The breakfast went well. We started to serve breakfast around 7am and closed down at around 10am. We served about 280 pancakes (10 lbs of pancake mix), 80 biscuits and 2 gallons of gravy. We also served some hot chocolate and hot tang. There was a constant stream of breakfaster's coming and going. When asked why we are doing this, I mentioned to a few, if Jesus can feed 5000, we can at least attempt to feed a couple of hundred people.

Praises and thanks to our Heavenly Father to be able to do this. Thanks also to FCA-E's Debbie and John from Phoenix, Jim Moutray who is an IC3 member down in Sahuarita for all their hard work in preparing and serving the breakfast. It was fun. God willing, we'll do it again.