Bicyclists choose local church for overnight stay

Special to The Clinton Courier

     Recently, Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure participants, who were on a three-hundred-fifty-mile charity ride from Nashville to Jackson, stopped at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Clinton. The church hosted them for an overnight stay, during which time the cyclists rested and made any needed repairs to their bicycles after their sixty-nine-mile ride from Kosciusko that morning.

     The bicycle ride is held to raise money and awareness for The Fuller Center for Housing’s efforts to eliminate poverty housing by creating partnerships within communities that bring together churches, schools, businesses and civic organizations to build decent, affordable homes in partnership with people who are unable to secure adequate housing by conventional means. All homeowners work hand-in-hand with volunteers to build their own homes, which are then sold to them on terms they can afford, based on the Biblical idea of no-profit, no-interest loans.

     The Fuller Center for Housing, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, has more than one hundred chapters across the United States and in twenty international locations.

     Since the first ride in 2008, more than 1,800 Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure cyclists have ridden more than 1.7 million cumulative miles and raised more than $4.6 million for The Fuller Center for Housing’s mission of helping families have simple, decent places to live through repair work and new home builds.

     For more information about The Fuller Center for Housing, visit FullerCenter.org.