{"id":1701,"date":"2008-04-07T19:33:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T19:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:26:54","slug":"6209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2008\/04\/07\/6209\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist to Raise Funds for Zambia Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKFORD, IL (April 7, 2008) \u2013 When 63-year-old Gary Lindberg learned about a pair of recent college graduates who had started a missionary enterprise building bicycles in Zambia in order to provide jobs, he knew how he wanted to help.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/uploads\/tb\/RO\/tbROaa9vdoqGc4mPpTZoRA\/rider-lindberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" \/><!--more-->He is raising donations by riding his own bike from Rockford to the Evangelical Covenant Church <a title=\"Annual Meeting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/am\/2008-annual-meeting\" target=\"_blank\">Annual Meeting<\/a> in Green Lake, Wisconsin. He will spend two days in June covering the 150 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Lindberg, a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcovonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">First Covenant Church<\/a> in Rockford, read an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/cov\/news\/item6029\" target=\"_blank\">article about the ministry<\/a> on the denomination\u2019s website in December. \u201cThe story intrigued me,\u201d Lindberg says. \u201cI\u2019m just really fascinated with the concept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vaughn Spethmann, a member of Clairemont Covenant Church, and Dustin McBride graduated in spring 2007 with international business degrees from Azusa Pacific University and started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abikes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Acirfa<\/a> (Africa spelled backward) to build high-quality, low-cost bicycles. The business employs Zambian workers while providing a means of transportation so people can travel to work and be lifted out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat really is a great thing,\u201d says Lindberg, who graduated from North Park University in 1967 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics and business.<\/p>\n<p>Lindberg hopes that others will join him on the journey, or at least be willing to make financial contributions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving people like Gary believe in the vision and then go ahead and be a part of it by riding, raising funds and awareness is so encouraging,\u201d says Spethmann. \u201cIt is also affirming that God is moving in people&#8217;s lives here in Zambia and in the USA. We could not be changing people&#8217;s lives here in Zambia from the \u2018pulpit\u2019 of a bicycle without the support from Gary and others like him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Lindberg has read a Covenant news story and been prompted to ride to raise money for bikes in Africa. In 2004, he read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/cov\/news\/item3822.html\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> about Covenanters who were undertaking a three-day, 275-mile trip to raise money that would be used to purchase bicycles for pastors in Congo. The trip raised $7,000.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to that trip, the trek in June should be easier: Prior to the first event, Lindberg had not ridden a bike for several decades. \u201cI didn\u2019t even own a bike,\u201d he says laughing. So he borrowed his brother\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d been looking for a hobby,\u201d Lindberg recalls. \u201cWhen that article came across my computer, I thought that is what I wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since that first trip, Lindberg has continued to use the bike for ministry. He leads a group from church on the second Saturday of every month. The rides have been an event to which church members can invite guests who don\u2019t attend First Covenant.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact <a title=\"First Covenant Church\" href=\"mailto:firstcov@firstcovonline.org\">First Covenant Church<\/a> by calling 815-398-4247 or by email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=1701&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKFORD, IL (April 7, 2008) \u2013 When 63-year-old Gary Lindberg learned about a pair of recent college graduates who had started a missionary enterprise building bicycles in Zambia in order to provide jobs, he knew how he wanted to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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