Noah's Hot Wheels

Matthew Wang, our Gloritrek bike artist, has done an amazing job on the wheels, in both English and Chinese! These wheels will tell people why we ride!

Gloritrek Prep Pictures!

Training for Gloritrek really began during the summer of 2012.  Noah and Dave ran a couple 5K's.

Noah, with classmate Jonathan, & David participate in a 25.75 KM triathlon!

 You wanted to see it!  Here is what my friend, Dr. Chen's chin work accomplished!  Why?  So my helmet will actually stay on my head!

A 113 KM (half Ironman) in Taitung, Taiwan

No, nothing to do with Gloritrek, but it was Noah's first par.  Norton Knoll's, #4 a par 5, Oakland, IL.

Matthew Wang is our paint guy for the Gloritrek bikes, which will soon be ready to photograph!  (No, the bike frame he is holding is not ours.)

Frames, Chin & Web-site

This has been a big week for Gloritrek.  The bike frames are nearly finished at the paint shop.  Soon I will be delivering them to the SRAM factory for final assembly.  My friend, Dr. Chen, took the stitches out of my chin.  Though my chin is still sore, I was able to shave, which makes my wife very happy!  And, Allen Messimer, one of our Team Expansion co-workers here in Taichung, is helping me update the Gloritrek web-site.  Soon, you'll notice new additions to the web-site:  the calendar, maps, 10 ten-minute topics, etc.  I'm always amazed by how the Lord provides......

Emily is our Gloritrek Coordinator

We're excited to add Emily Harrison, our daughter, to the Gloritrek team. She will be handling event scheduling, among other things. Please keep Emily (and our son-in-law, David) in your prayers!

Christian Standard Announcement

In the Aug. 1 on-line issue of the Christian Standard, the magazine published that Noah and I were completing Gloritrek "this week."

Though the pronouncement is a year in advance, we pray that it is a prediction of the good things to come! We did receive the bike frames from the factory this week! Yeah!

Prep for Gloritrek

The last couple weeks have been busy. We were blessed to spend a week in Livonia, MI, with the Memorial Church oh Christ and their VBS. Altogether, the kids raised more than $1750 for Gloritrek.

Also, we've begun to order supplies: bike racks from Bontrager and waterproof saddlebags from Ortlieb.

We spent a couple days in L'ville at the Team Expansion headquarters, ironing out details for Gloritrek and debriefing.

Returning to Illinois, we saw temp readings as high as 107 degrees! Yikes! I foresee some early morning bike riding in our future!

These pictures are from our 2011 Tour-de-Taiwan.  We biked more than 700 miles over a 10-day period, and gave away more than 2000 "Jesus Loves You" ball bands.