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From Atlanta to Miami
They cycle to raise $60,000 for missions
In a day when the world seems to
void of purpose and men are
for direction in life, it is good to find
interest stories which convey
purpose and direction.
TTie direction is southward bound.
Three Georgian men will be
2,000 cumulative miles on bicycles.
The two-week journey will begin
Atlanta and terminate in Miami,
Florida. Vet the direction is not
news maker, neither is the
country trip Many people
traveled north and south, east and
across this land on bicycles, and
more will. The purpose of
adventure and the men involved are
what set this event apart from all
others
Your interest is sparked cyclists the moment inio
you sec the three tiding
i own with packs and gear strapped on
their bikes and T-shirts that proclaim
their Atlanta to Miami trek. Once you
hear even a small portion of their story,
you want to know more
Tlie ihree cyclists, Don Barron, fas
son Don Jr., and Neal Gray, are hoping
to raise $60,000 for a campaign called
Speed-The-Light through sponsors of
their 2,000 mile bicycle journey. I wo of
them are commercial airline pilots, a
third is a young missionary in a
war-torn East Afriaan country All
three share a deep and abiding faith in
God and a sincere desire to help a
campaign that provides missionaries in
113 countries with equipment ranging
from jeeps to hoes
Only a week Mart- the trip began,
the Barrens asked Neal Gray if he
would like to come along. Allhough he
is a runner in g<xxl physical shape,
Gray wasn't a bicycle enthusiast. But
(he cause was a gixxl one and he had a
vacation coming, so the three were
soon scouring Atlanta in search fot a
gfxxl bicycle and the gear needed for
the long ride,
The story Barron Sr., tells about his
recovery from a critical heart condition
is an impressive one In January, when
hr was to undergo open-heart surgery,
Barron’s doctors found that a 90 per
cent plus blockage was drying up on its
own and hr no longer needed the
surgery. He had previously had a
procedure in which a halloon-like
instrument clears out the heart’s
blocked arteries This was successful in
opening up other arteries iri his heart
whnh had more than 90 per cent
blot kage
Barton, 46, sixwi began a year long
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Twrnrv-one vear old Gan Baxter
was admitted to the Peach Founts
Hospital last Wednesday September
21. following a one-vehicle accident
jusi south ot Powersvtlle
Baxter was traveling north on
the ram-slick Grotgta Highwac 49 ium
south ot Powersvtilr when a car pulled
our ot a side road into the truck’s lane
ot travel As Baxter was trying to halt
the huge gravel truck, it went into a
skid, slid up an embankment, hit a pine
tree and come to rest on the hank wtth
Baxter trapped in the cab He was
removed and admitted to the hospital
with some cuts and bruises, his
flaming red hair messed up, and a verv
black right ev e
The truck was removed h\ the
owner, Buice Trucking of Forsyth
Lucky stop
reveals fire
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Good luck arrived with the bad luck
last Thursday afternoon. September
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Tf» caaoar-lrlbuna. Fort Vallay, Gaorgla, Thursday, September 29, 1963
period in which he will undergo close
medical scrutiny by the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) in
hopes of regaining his active flying
status with Trans World Airlines. He
has been grounded by the FAA due to
his medical condition.
Barron’s son decided to follow his
heart into missionary work rather than
his grandfather's and his father's
footsteps into aviation. In Somolia,
there are no official missionaries, so he
IS working under the auspices of the
United Nations rather than a Christian
missionary organization. tension-filled dictatorship
Living in a
land which is officially a war-zone,
Don's work consists largely of dealing
wit h the medical and physical
problems associated with poverty and
disease in underdeveloped nations. He
lives with 39,000 refugees in a desert
camp and spends his days offering
assistance in preparing and handing
o\li food, or tackling the unending
medical problems common to all such
refugee camps Somalia, Don says, has
more refugees than any other African
country.
Although he is technically not on a
Christian mission, Don says by offering
assistance in other ways and by
sharing his love for Christ and his
belief in the Lord, he is accomplishing
his mission just the same. He cannot
talk as openly as he would like about
his work in the camp due to
international constraints. If he were to
say too much or the wrong thing, he
and others who have been allowed into
Somalia, even through the U.N., are
likely to be expelled and
Neal Gray is also a pilot an
active Christian, He says he accepted
the invitation to join the Barrens in
their long journey because ii sounded
like an interesting trip and it would
provide him with an excellent
opportunity to share his love of the
bird and to raise money for a very
worthy cause. He explained that the
Specd-The-Light organization is
usually funded by teen activities such
as bake sales and cat washes. These
teenagers help raise 20 million dollars
annually fot Speed The l ight One
hundred per cent of the money raised
by the cyclists will go to this fund
which provides tools and equipment to
missionaries around the world. The
equipment purchased is often used to
build roads, schools, medical facilities
or other basic needs in underdeveloped
countries
their route from Atlanta to
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Mac on could noi base picked a honor
(or luckier) place to stop and aA tor
directions than Five Points Phillips o>6
Upon returning to his truck the
driver smelled smoke and set out to
find its source Smoke billowed trom
the large rear door as it »as raised In¬
side was a burning living room chair,
some smoldering fabric wooden sample swatch
Nx'kv and a hole in the tUs'r ot
the truck
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Three Speed The l.ight Mission bike riders take a short break from their
cycling to explain their venture to a curious reporter.
photo by Carta Hill
Miami, the trio will witness at prayer
breakfasts and in church meetings.
Members of Assembly of Gcxi churches
will be their hosts for overnight stops
along the way and at least once they
will perform for church groups with
various musical instruments they play.
No, they say they didn’t bring along
the trumpet or the trombone but Mrs.
Barron Sr., and Mrs. Gray will travel to
meet them and they will carry the
equipment in the car “1 decided it
would be a bit much to carry a
trombone on the bike," Gray laughed.
Their layover in Fort Valley came on
the second day of their trip which they
described as “going great.” No one
had any sore muscles or problems with
blisters yet, and the weather had been
cooperating with them better than
had
The fire started when the exhaust
pipe ot the truck broke at the point
where it went over the rear axle of the
truck, it burned a hole through the
fhxir and ignited the chair
The fire was extinguished bv the
quick actum of James McElhaney and
Donnie Adams who work at the Phillips
66 station The driver was luckv to have
stopped at a place equipped with a
large C02 extinguisher and men who
were quick to get involved
Florida and hotter temperatures
loomed ahead, all three said they were
looking forward to thai leg of the trip
because they would travel the famous
Florida AlA coastal highway. And
although they were anxious to see the
sand and surf, they praised Barnesville
and Fort Valley for their “friendly
people and clean, beautiful towns. ”
So somewhere out there they are
pedaling hard today. Not just for
themselves, but for the missionary
work they are all so interested in. If you
want to know more about the
Specd-The-Light mission or the bi¬
cyclists' effort, contact Roger Brum
balow in Macon at 745-3903, or
Michael A Beck at the First Assembly
of God Church in Fort Valley.
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