Half*Marathon!

This weekend was the World Vision half marathon. I did not get to run but I was so proud of my hubby and my dad as they finished strong! We went to a team dinner on Saturday night before the race, we got to hear from Lopez Lamong who is an olympic gold medalist. He represented the USA in the 1500 meter run. So he is pretty dang fast. He is actually from Sudan and was captured to be a child solider when he was only 6 years old. He says that it was only by God that he was able to escape with a couple of other boys to a refugee camp. He thought that he was going to live the rest of his life there but an American schooling program came and picked him to come to the US among some other boys. He realized that he loved running and his story goes on from there. He now is an advocate for South Sudan which is the newest country on the planet. He totally loves Jesus and his obedience is humbling. He ran with the rest of the World Vision team even though long distance isn't his thing. It was cool to hear a present time story of God using the weak to do His work. God is using someone who could have been killed by the LRA or left to die in a refugee camp. But instead because of Lopez's obedience, he will have a huge impact on the start of a new country....that desperately needs Jesus.
Overall there was over 700 people running this half marathon with World Vision. The team as a whole raised over $350,000 dollars!!! That is clean water FOR LIFE for 7,000 kids!!! FOR LIFE!!! It was emotional hearing the number and how so many people here in the states would go through physical straining to help people they will never meet.
I am so proud of my husband and my dad! They did such a great job! Shelden ran in 1 hour and 59 minutes...not bad for someone who barely trained! He is a natural runner for sure! And my dad ran in 2 hours and 12 minutes! He beat his estimated time of 2 hours and 30 minutes so we are super proud of him!
Unfortunately, me and my mom didn't get to see them cross the finish line! Big time bummer!!! We found out from other spectators that they changed the race course last minute. Instead of the racing ending in a walking distance from the starting point, it ended up being 8 miles away! We sat at a corner with other fans that claimed there was supposed to be a bus coming to get us and take us to the finish line...we sat there....and sat there...and sat there...freezing!!! I thought to myself, I am tired of waiting, we got to drive there! So I convinced my mom into us driving there and figuring out how to get there...we got there, finally found parking and walked as fast as we could to that finish line. A couple of minutes later there was Shelden hanging out....okay obviously we missed him coming in but dad still had to be out there. So we waited and waited and Shelden finally found him...he was finished running and looking for us! Me and my mom were bummed that we couldn't cheer them on as they finished but we were very proud of them!!! Such a great experience!


If you want to know more about World Vision and how they are changing lives all over the world you can visit their website at worldvision.org

Before the race...

 Shelden always in a good mood....

So stinkin' proud of this man!