Run For Missions 2009 Finished!

The run is over and everyone had a successful finish. Stories and reports by next week.

Run For Missions 2009 Results 103.9 Miles
Tim Marshall 23:37
Adam Monaghan 24:11
Allen Smelser/Mark Smelser Relay 29 Hours

50 Miles
Gabe Hancock

More Info/Results coming soon...

Run for Missions 2009: October Update

Run for Missions 2009: October Update

-Special thanks to those who have already made pledges and/or sent checks!
-Total raised for 2009 in pledges plus actual gifts as of 10/23/09 is $14,473.35. Remember our goal this year is $25,000. NOTE that that in 08 with 132 giving units we raised $13,000 but this year we are at almost $14,500 with only 87 giving units so far. This means the pledges and gifts have increased significantly from last year.
-If you haven’t made your pledge please do so now and send a check by November 16 (payable to EFC-MAYM, 2018 Maple, Wichita, KS 67213).
-Please help pass the word to others you know who may be interested in supporting the Run for Missions.
-The Run is coming up in just a few days, starting Monday morning, October 26th. A little different this year is that Allen will start at 4:30 am on Monday morning and Adam and Tim (see below) will start at 6:30 am. The finish line celebration will be at Barclay College in front of Phillips Hall at 10:30 am on Tuesday morning, October 27. All are invited!

Run for Missions 2009 T-Shirt display

Email Adam Monaghan adam@efcmaym.org if you want to purchase a Run for Missions 2009 t-shirt. Costs $10/shirt let me know what size you want.

A Third Runner Added to Run For Missions 2009!

We are excited to announce that we will have three runners this year attempting the whole 100 mile distance for the Run for Missions. Tim Marshall, age 23, from Rose Hill Friends Church will join Adam and Allen for the whole distance! Tim is a runner, but usually a fast, speedy runner and ran for Lousiana Tech during college. Tim has never attempted the 100 mile distance.

Farmer Friends Challenge (Run For Missions Note from Allen Smelser)

Hi folks, this is Allen, the grayer half of the Run for Missions team, and usually the more silent partner. I'm an old FBC grad from the early seventies, more often known around the Yearly Meeting as "Nancy's husband", which is O.K.
When Adam called me about the concept for the run he had presented at Yearly Meeting last year, I jumped on board. We know each other pretty well. With his youthful enthusiasm, connections and friendships at Barclay and working location at EFC-MAYM headquarters in Wichita, he has been a great point-man for the Run. Now I want to share with you what's been on my heart the last month or so.

Most of my working life here in Northeast Kansas the last 30 years has been in the sales and construction of buildings, many of them for farmers. I grew up helping grandpa farm with A and B Johnnypoppers. Quite honestly, I relate best to folks involved in producing food and fiber, and those in the construction and building trades.

Getting to my point, God has blessed our nation with a growing season this year nothing less than awesome. Driving country roads between corn fields has felt like going down a tunnel; soybeans are waist high and taller and covered with bursting pods; four or five cuttings of alfalfa and second cuttings of brome; pastures that won't quit growing! (and we're talking dry-land farming back here!) It's not just Jefferson Co., Ks., either; predictions are for the largest U.S.soybean harvest ever, and the second largest corn crop.

My challenge to you "Farming Friends" is this - to give an acre of production to our Lord through the Run For Missions. One acre of corn or beans from your best ground; two tons of good irrigated alfalfa hay; beef producers, a feeder steer just coming off summer pasture.

Jesus knows ag, and used many examples and illustrations from farming to reach people. Let's get behind the laborers called to full-time service on the foreign mission field; let's help them focus on preparing for ministry without being saddled with so much debt.

My young friend and I will soon be running (and walking?) across some magnificent farmland in Kingman, Pratt and Kiowa counties. Knowing you are teamed with us at 2am under the cold stars will truly be sweet.

God bless you richly, be safe and careful during the long days of harvest, and hopefully we'll see you along the way or in Haviland on Tuesday morning, October 27th.

-Allen Smelser 10-16-09