While the biking portion of BikeMovement 2006 may have ended on August 25, 2006 on a sandy beach in Ocean City, New Jersey, several follow-up projects are in full gear. Look out for the upcoming BikeMovement Missio Dei publication, a collection of articles written by BikeMovement members. There are also plans to further develop this website into a resource for young adult thoughts and insights. We are starting to collect papers written by young adults in regards to faith and the church that will be developed into a resource database. If you would like to submit papers at this time, please send them to timothycs@goshen.edu .

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Last evening Timothy Shenk, Kristen Swartley, and I, along with my roommate Cheryl Heatwole, celebrated the Hebrew tradition of Shabbat (the Jewish sabbath) at suppertime, passing around a glass of wine (grape juice) and breaking bread around the table (er, ok, so it was cheese sandwiches), while reflecting on our week since last Friday. Tim looked behind him at the microwave which read a time of 7:00, and asked, “Kendra! Where were we this time exactly one week ago?” I felt myself start to smile: “Bikemovement!” (more…)