Tennessee Ragnar Relay

This weekend Team Anthony embarked on our 198 mile run from Chattanooga to Nashville. It was an amazing experience and we learned a lot about "perseverance" :) We took 32 hours to complete the race, starting at 9:30am (although our trip started around 4am) and we are very proud of our team. It was a difficult 32 hours, with very little sleep, a very cold, foggy and dark night and some very steep hills, but we kept encouraging each other and other teams, and conducted ourselves well. We continuously kept Anthony in our minds and prayers, and ended the run proud and relieved, and with no regrets what-so-ever. Thanks to all of you who kept us in your prayers and who supported our team and Anthony. Because of you we were able to unify our team with sweaters, which served as a conversation-starter amongst other teams and opened the door to share Anthony's story, and provided us with fuel for our support vans and bodies :) Together we have raised over $2000 for Anthony, and support is continuing to come in. If you would like to support Anthony, you will still be able to send it to the Lakewood Church of Christ (see the above post), or for those in South Africa, to the Port Elizabeth Church of Christ. All-in-all, it has been an amazing weekend! Lots of lessons were learned, including many spiritual ones, and bonds were formed. We feel so privileged to have been given this opportunity, and want to thank every one of you for being on this journey with us :) We will be putting some photos up soon...

Thank you, because of Him and for His glory, Linds and Jess

Hebrews 12:1-3, 12-13

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart...

Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. “Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed."

These scriptures sum up our journey this weekend and have a whole new, deeper meaning to us now :)