7 p.m. program at First Mennonite Church, open to the public, enables bikers to share their stories.
Bluffton is Wednesday’s stop on the 2015 cross-country Fuller Center Bike Adventure: Ride Across America.
Nearly 50 bicyclists will pedal into town mid-morning from Winchester, Indiana, where they spent yesterday. The trip covers about 90 miles. They will be in Bluffton overnight.
Their Bluffton visit is thanks to Everett Collier, who rode the 2014 adventure from coast to coast.
Collier and his daughter, Alee, will join the group in Bluffton and travel with them to the Atlantic Ocean, a trip of about 900 miles. The group will dip their bikes in the ocean at Portland, Maine, on Aug. 15.
While in Bluffton, the group will spend the night in the First Mennonite Church.
Collier said that following at supper in the church the bikers will provide a short program at approximately 7 p.m. in Fellowship Hall.
The program, open to the public, allows bikers to share with others about their cross-country trip and the reasons they participate in it.
The bike ride is much more than it sounds. Sponsored by the Fuller Center for Housing, the bikers raise money to support the Center.
The Center is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing worldwide.
By forming partnerships with local organizations, The Fuller Center provides the structure, guidance and support that communities need to build and repair homes for the impoverished among them.
Millard Fuller and his wife Linda, who together founded Habitat for Humanity in 1976, started the Fuller Center in spring of 2005.
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