IC3 News - February

Race Team Meeting - 2/21 @ 2 pm We will have an adult race team meeting on Saturday, February 21st at 2 pm at the Bike Source on Colorado and Yale. We will be discussing training, our role in Wheels of Thunder, target races, clothing and anything else that needs to be addressed. Also being discussed will be the Cherry Creek Time Trial Series, and possibly getting times near each other if possible. This meeting is for all race team members, mountain and road. Junior Team Meeting - 2/21 @ 3pm We will have a junior team meeting on Saturday, February 21st at 3 pm at the Bike Source on Colorado and Yale. We will discuss the upcoming crit race series, practices and upcoming races. This will be for both road and mountain biker juniors.

EPIC Summer Ride

I am a 40-year-old guy planning an estimate 270 mile MTB tour of southern Colorado from Doyleville to Lake City to Silverton to Creede to Platoro to Chama, NM between the months of July and August 09. I have considered adding 11 miles of the Monarch Crest Trail to the tour. The trip is a segment comprising a self-mapped track of the Continental Divide through all of CO. closely aligned with the highest points in the Colorado Rockies. It is not overly technical, but heavy on the endurance/exertion aspect. I've been riding mostly on Mt bike for long-distance multi-surface/multi-terrain tours since college, excluding a eight year vacation from riding due to life's challenges (ie: family, finances and frequent moves). I have been in Colorado for eight years now and since about 2004 I have been called back to the trail, riding now for cause greater than my own personal satisfaction: The Denver Rescue Mission and The Co Epilepsy Foundation, all the while balancing responsibilities of God/wife/kids. Given my current stage of life though, it has been hard finding a rider of equal enthusiasm and yet similar limitations for training and what not. I'm not a novice by any stretch, but nor am I an expert rider either. Anyone interested in such an undertaking, please contact me at rad759@comcast.net. Thanx.
Jeff

RIDES THIS WEEK

Back to the normal routine this weekend - Saturday (Please not earlier time so people can show up for the race team meeting) 9 am at Deer Creek and Wadsworth.

Sunday - 1 pm at Village Greens Park - Located near the West Enterance of Cherry Creek State Park -

“Spinning” class with Christian Worship/Praise music

Where?
Goodson Rec Center
6315 S. University Blvd.

When?
Wednesday’s starting January 7, 2008
11:30am – 12:25pm
Arrive early to get set up on the bike

Cost
Normal Entry Fee for South Suburban Parks & Recreation
$5.25 District - $7.25 Non-District

Important
Call Goodson Rec Center the day before to reserve a spot
303-798-2476

Instructor
Dave Pasque
303-220-8740
dpasque @comcast.net

Clothing Order is in!!!!!!!!!

To all those that ordered clothing, it has arrived.
Please contact me to set up a time to pick it up.

I still have some left over items, so please contact me if you would like to purchase something.

Thanks,
Nathan
303-929-7523
colosoccer5@hotmail.com

Fundraiser for Jamie Whitmore

As many of you probably saw in the last IC3 newsletter or may know, Jamie Whitmore, (the women's Xterra champ) is struggling with cancer. Jamie is a Christian and is famous for her "Powered by God" slogan. As you can imagine because of her illness her family has many needs of which their primary one is prayer. Please include Jamie and Courtney (her husband) in your prayers going forward.

Among the family's needs the biggest is financial. As you can imagine losing her income has had a significant impact on the family. So any financial support would be greatly appreciated. The Pennsylvania IC3 spoke knows Jamie quite well and Stan Ritchie's daughter has done a great job in preparing artwork for a t-shirt design that they are selling to raise money. The cost of the shirt is $25 each. If you'd like to purchase a shirt let Cody Newcome admin@christiancycling.com) know before the end of next week. She can also forward you a picture of the tshirt. Stan is preparing an order to sell the shirts at the Xterra Nationals in Tahoe in October and needs to get an idea of the quantity needed. Lastly, if you know of anyone who might be interested in a shirt please feel free to forward this email on to them. You can read more about Jamie on her website (www.jamiewhitmore.com)

September Devotional

Obedient… even when it hurts

Coming over to us, he took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, "The Holy Spirit says, In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'" When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, "Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."
Acts 21:11-13

As we have been exploring Acts on a fairly regular basis in these monthly leadership devotionals, some themes have begun to emerge. It has been no accident, for example, that there has been a regular focus on the death and resurrection of Christ, first because of its central place in Scripture, but also because of its central place in our faith and practice. Without the death and resurrection, what is Christianity left with?

Another regular theme to develop has been that of the cost of discipleship. This theme is regularly seen in the Gospels, for example, and is embodied in the deaths of Stephan, the first Church martyr, and James, the first Apostolic martyr. Acts 21 brings with it a challenge for us today, as we see Paul, aware of his potential fate, making the decision to be obedient regardless of what may happen to him. As the closing chapters of Acts unfold, it becomes clear that Paul is not only aware of the cost of his obedience to God's call, but is a willing participant in the work of God.

It is unlikely most of us will be called to lay down our lives in the service of our God. Until things change radically in North America, death will remain an unlikely consequence of calling on the name of Christ. Granted, this is not the case in many other parts of the world today, and I often wonder which of my students from the college, serving in corners of the world I can't even name publicly, may be given the choice between Jesus and death.

So if we are not being asked to pay the ultimate price, what does Paul's example to us
in Acts 21 (and the rest of the book) mean? I would like to suggest that we need to grapple with the cost of obedience, whatever that cost might look like. For Paul, it was his life, as was the case for many of the other Apostles. In the case of John, the "Beloved Disciple," it was to watch his closest friends all die for their faith, outliving all of them while in exile. Granted, John was exiled to a Mediterranean island… but it still came at a high cost.

For us, there are costs as we strain to hear the call of Christ, and lead the IC3 where He wants it to go. Those costs can include alienated friendships, as we are called to confront those we love who have strayed from the truth. Those costs may be literal, financial costs, as God calls us to allocate funds for particular people or projects just because He asks us to. Those costs might include being ostracized by those who hate Christians, making scandalous assumptions about us simply because of our IC3 uniforms. Those costs may include… there are many blanks which we can fill with the price of obedience. Following Christ ALWAYS comes at a price. Are we willing to trust God that the price he asks us to pay is more than worth it? What is more important to
us: obedience, or the cost?

"Truly I tell you," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields —along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
Mark 10:29-30

Clothing Order

We will be placing a clothing order on August 15th.
We should receive the order by October 20.

Please email me if you would like an order sheet.

Thanks,
Nathan colosoccer5@hotmail.com
303-929-7523

CLOTHING FOR SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For those of you that want more clothing or don't have any.
I have a large selection in stock (My House).
Please contact me if interested and I can let you know what I have.

cell - 303-929-7523
email - colosoccer5@hotmail.com

Thanks
Nathan