You Gotta’ Keep Adventuring!
CREATING NON-NEUTRAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
2020 – Cycling on hold
In this age of COVID-19 Anastasia will by cycling alone for teen Congolese moms, in partnership with HOLD DRC (https://www.holddrc.org/), who are enrolled in a year long transformational program, being given a second chance to change the narrative of their stories.
WRITING & RIDING
A Purpose Driven Adventure Coach
Cycling in solitude to an Audience of One
Saturday, May 23
Having returned from a timely and productive two week trip to the Congo DRC in March, I began to ask the Lord for creativity and wisdom as to how I might be able to help with the pandemic needs of the teen moms we work with in Congo?
For years we have cycled in an all women’s cycling venue, Cycle the WAVE, (Women Against Violence Everywhere) in Seattle with 1500 other women cyclists.
That was ‘then’.
This is ‘now’.
Oftentimes when I am blow drying my hair in the morning, ideas out of nowhere seem to pop into my head. I call them ‘holy nudges‘.
The current ‘holy nudge‘ was to host my own cycling venue (Saturday, May 23,) calling it ‘To an Audience of One‘. I cycled in solitude asking people to donate $59 towards an Emergency Fund for each teen mom we work with in Congo to be able to purchase protective gear as they go out into the villages with their megaphones at 5 a.m. communicating the need for preventive behavior as well as being able to pass out masks and gloves. The Coronavirus pandemic is currently spreading throughout the Congo DRC.
A generous portion of the sign up fee goes towards the needed tuition so the Congolese teen moms can complete their year long commitment at HOLD (www.holddrc.org). Their commitment becomes foundational in their development enabling them to change to narrative of their story.
There isn’t much that I can do
but I can cycle alone for you
as on our UNknown* way we go
With watchful expectation cycling and training in solitude ‘To an Audience of One‘ continues be its own Trip for Transformation on both sides of the ocean!
Simply click on the Paypal link above, or if you prefer, please mail a check or money order to:
Violet Hope Foundation
16707 188th Place NE
Woodinville, WA 98072
Read: Reflections of a Purpose Driven Adventure Coach
Anastasia’s series of addresses to the Women’s Enrichment Ministries – South Shores Church, from the church’s newsletter!
Also, Anastasia and her team just returned from Congo – please read Spring Recon in Congo 2020
*The UN becomes a reference to the eternal for from our limited paradigm the UN is the UNknowable. All of our UNknowns are known to Him on the path of His appointing and anointing.
A Seat at the Table
Denise is one Congolese ‘teen mom’ who ‘girls like us’ funded to grant her the needed training to become an esthetician. Her one white plastic chair is her ‘business location’.
She sets her chair out on a daily basis on a crowded street, placing it in front of a store that sells hair products.
Women walk by and sit on her plastic chair to get their hair done. (Braids, extensions, etc.) Denise makes enough money to provide:
- food for her little ones
- uniforms for their schooling
- for a place to call ‘home’
Denise has successfully established ‘a seat at the table’ in her Congolese culture. This would have never happened without the help of ‘girls like us’.
Help fund a “Girls Like Us” grant for at risk teens & women in the Congo DRC
