The record-shattering 2016 Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure — raising funds for and spreading awareness of our affordable housing ministry — will complete its 3,500-mile journey from Seattle to Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Today, ride leader Connor Ciment gave everyone a little 2-minute update from his bike as the riders into Maryland on a quiet, peaceful […]
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With Bicycle Adventure in its final week, newspaper catches up with cyclists in Wheeling, West Virginia
This year’s Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure already is the most successful ever in terms of money raised — more than $285,000 so far in 2016 — and in terms of participation as so many cyclists signed up that there are actually two packs of cyclists making the 3,500-mile journey from Seattle to Washington, D.C. The […]
Bicycle Adventurers repair roof in Springfield, Ohio, as summer journey nears end
“This is how we enjoy our summer,” Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure leader Connor Ciment tells the Springfield News-Sun, which caught up with the fundraising and awareness-building cyclists Wednesday in Springfield, Ohio, where Orange Ride cyclists (the first of two batches of cyclists on this year’s record-breaking ride) were repairing a roof with the Clark County […]
RedLetter Christians’ Shane Claiborne salutes Fuller Center Bicycle Adventurers
Shane Claiborne, founder of The Simple Way and the Simple Homes Fuller Center for Housing, is a prominent leader of the RedLetter Christians movement, which asks a pretty simple but thought-provoking question: “What if Jesus Really Meant What He Said?” One of the things He said was to love our neighbor, and Claiborne encourages people […]
WLFI-TV catches up with Bicycle Adventure in West Lafayette, Indiana
The Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure is now a little more than halfway through its 3,500-mile fundraising and awareness journey from Seattle to Washington, D.C. WLFI-TV caught up with the riders on Thursday as the journey made its way into the state of Indiana. A huge thank you to Unitarian Universalist Church of Tippecanoe County for […]
Trio of friends — The DC3 — tackle coast-to-coast Adventure to help families have decent homes
There are many ways to support The Fuller Center’s affordable housing ministry, so what exactly would possess a person to lend a hand by hopping on a bicycle and pedaling 3,500 miles across the country? Moreover, what would possess three friends to support The Fuller Center this way? Actually, dozens of individuals will be participating […]
Bicycle Adventure expands summer ride due to overwhelming interest
The Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure has raised more than $1.3 million for The Fuller Center for Housing’s ministry since it began in 2008 with a summer ride from San Diego, Calif., to Savannah, Ga. The charity ride has grown yearly since then and added a weeklong spring ride down The Natchez Trace Parkway and a […]