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- What's your connection to the Ride:Well Tour?
- Cross-Country Cyclist, Advocate, Friend of Blood:Water, Friend of Venture Expeditions
- About Me:
- Anne Jackson has traveled all over the world using online media to tell stories of those living in poverty. In the last two years, the readers of FlowerDust.net have generously contributed over $355,000 to charitable causes.
She is an author, speaker, and activist who lives in the Nashville area with her husband, Chris. Her critically acclaimed book, Mad Church Disease – Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic (Zondervan) released in February 2009. Her next book, Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession and Grace (Thomas Nelson) will be released in August 2010.
She contributes to various blogs like Christianity Today and Deadly Viper Character Assassins. Anne has also written for PurposeDriven.com, Willow Arts, Outreach Magazine, Catalyst Groupzine, and a variety of other publications. She is a licensed and ordained lay pastor serving under the leadership at Cross Point Church in Nashville, as well as a speaker advocate for Compassion International. Anne shares stories of health, recovery, justice, mercy, and grace for thousands of people every year at local churches, universities, and conferences.
Anne will be a rider on the 2010 Ride:Well Tour, a cross-country cycling tour in June and July 2010. The goal of the trip is to raise awareness and funding for water wells in Africa. Ride:Well is associated with the Blood:Water Mission water initiative.
- My Website:
- http://flowerdust.net
Anne Jackson's Blog
Six Months is a Long Way Off - But My Bike & I Still Have Great Conversations...
I grew up in really small towns.
Circle Back, Texas: Population 4.
McCamey, Texas: Population 2500.
Veribest, Texas: Population 16
These west Texas towns are mere dots lost on the maps, off rural roads and an hour away from a supermarket.
The schools I attended were respectively small, and all of us were bussed in from the farms. Miles separated us. Playdates were only on birthdays.
The tumbleweeds were friends. So were the stray cats. I even had an invisible best friend for a while… Continue
Circle Back, Texas: Population 4.
McCamey, Texas: Population 2500.
Veribest, Texas: Population 16
These west Texas towns are mere dots lost on the maps, off rural roads and an hour away from a supermarket.
The schools I attended were respectively small, and all of us were bussed in from the farms. Miles separated us. Playdates were only on birthdays.
The tumbleweeds were friends. So were the stray cats. I even had an invisible best friend for a while… Continue
Posted on November 25, 2009 at 9:23am — 2 Comments
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I was reading you blog and thought of two things. One, I'm thoroughly excited for you (and the rest of the team) to experience the Tour. Two, you should read the book Bike for Life:How to Ride to 100. I was the mechanic on last year's tour, and this book taught me a TON about long distance riding, and riding in general. You'll love it.
Be richly blessed!
Peace,
Tyler