BIKERussia (Bicycling Into Karelia for Evangelism) the two-wheeled ministry that was started eleven years ago to take the Word into rural northwestern Russia on mountain bikes, has changed it's emphasis, and with it, the name of the ministry has also changed. A "spoke" is, of course, part of a bicycle wheel that attaches the hub to the rim. It is also the name that the International Christian Cycling Club gives to it's local chapters, and although we are not yet a part of ICCC, the concept seemed to fit.
St. Brendan the Navigator was a 4th Century Celtic monk who traveled far and wide as what we would call today an evangelist and church planter. It is known that he sailed at least a far to the west as Iceland, and he's believed to have even made it to the shores of Canada, over four hundred years before the Vikings and a millenia before Christopher Columbus set foot on the shore of the New World.
That spirit of exploration and evangelism is alive today in St. Brendan's Spoke. We just explore on two wheels! Future plans (and this point they are just plans) include trips, retreats and missions training sessions on bicycles, as well as family and church group rides. Eventually, we hope to end up on the Lewis and Clark Trail to the west, or in Ireland or even back in Russia. We will see where God wants these wheels to go.
Proceeding on...
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