Karen Speerstra offers a great weekend story.

My husband and I took a little drive around gorgeous Vermont yesterday and we kept meeting or passing bikers in blue with red patches on their sleeves.
When we stopped for lunch at a little village nearby, a couple of those bikers walked in and we learned who they were and what they're doing. I wish we'd have known about this six year old program for the book. Bike and Build organizes teams that are pedaling to end poverty housing (out of Brooklyn, NY).
They put their back wheels in the Atlantic (in Portsmouth, NH) on June 17, and on August 23rd will put their front wheels in the Pacific. The group we met were 31 riders headed for Vancouver, BC.
They had just spent two days building a home in Lebanon NH and were headed to Rochester NY for another build day. And they'll continue to do that across the whole USA. Since I had some books with me (I don't travel without them!) I "seeded" a couple of them which they wanted me to sign to Bike and Build. I showed them Chapter 14 and told them I wished we'd had known about them when we put the resources together.
Each biker must raise $4,000 themselves, to do this. The two guys we spent the most time with were Dartmouth students and they couldn't wait to share the books with their biker friends and their organizers who also came into the restaurant to talk to us. They all really LOVED the book and promised to show it all across America!!! I'm sure the books will be in their travel vans that accompany them because as far as I could tell, they were biking with just a water bottle!
Thought you'd all like to know.
- Karen

International Justice Mission mentions Our Day in the June edition of their e-newsletter The Justice Briefing.

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