It’s spring again and of course that means that your pedal-pounding fellow parishioners are at it again. Team Epiphany will once again mount our bicycles and ride in the Tri-State Trek to combat ALS. For quite a few years now, you have supported us as we have pedals across England to raise money for the ALS Therapy Development Institute. ALS-TDI has been a leader in research for discovering effective treatments to ed ALS for many years. Such discoveries take a long time, and ALS-TDI has launched the ALS Research Collaborative, which acts as a clearing house for gathered data from people with ALS and sharing them with researchers. They are also the only non-profit biotech to bring a potential treatment, togoprubart, to a clinical trial.
The Team will once again be traveling to New Hampshire again this June 22-23 after last year’s format change. We’ll be attempting various distances, from 30 to 200 miles over one or two days, looping through Maine and Massachusetts around Durham, NH.
And so, once again, we ask for your support:
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Please navigate to www.team-epiphany.org and make a pledge. We hope to break our record on fundraising. It will also show you who’s on the team and what they’ve signed up for. Sponsor your favorite rider or the team at large. It’s all good!
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You could join the team. No, I’m not kidding, and it’s not too late. There are many ways to participate, both in person and virtually. We’d love to swell our ranks – https://tst.als.net/the-ride/participation-options/. Not a cyclist? Doesn’t matter, you can participate virtually walking, running, or doing any kind of exercise.
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Pray for us. We will be training heavily between now and then. We’d especially like your prayers for the safety of all riders and volunteers on the weekend of June 22-23.
ALS has hit this parish hard over the years, and we ride in honor of our fallen friends, Steve Lewis and Rick Marks. Yet, we know there are lots of pressing needs in the world so we thank you in advance for considering supporting us.
