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Team Wing@Chosen Half Marathon This weekend was one of service and fun. Saturday I ran with Amber (Jason) Wing in the Chosen Half Marathon in New Braunfels, TX . The Wing's are working toward adopting a child from China and the run helped raise funds to do that. This was Amber's first half marathon , and she did great! The quote of the run was about mile 9 when she said, " I can't feel my legs! " Amber, every runner has said that some time in a run. Congratulations! I ran this same run with Team Bowen last year , and almost to the day, they brought their adopted son, Nik, home from Russia. You can read about their journey in their blog, Our Adoption Journey . I am honored to run with these families, and I look forward to running with a new family next year and seeing to which child God will lead Team Wing to adopt. Can I say how proud I am of Legacy Church ? After a wonderful gathered worship experience as the church, we headed out to a local school ...

Markus, Gabriel, Sarah, Russell and me Last Thursday night, January 27, at the invitation of Russell Head, I joined 100+ volunteers with the Collin County Homeless Coalition to make an annual count of the homeless in our county. We gathered at City Hall about 8:00 p.m., and after an hour plus of training and assignments our team headed out with a Plano Police officer to look for those who are categorized as homeless in our city . We carried our survey forms and "care packages" supplied by local Scout troops, non-profits, and churches. It had rained very hard two days previously, and the places where the officer knew people stayed--along railroad tracks, under freeway overpasses, and along the "creeks" that run through town --were empty. We also did not find anyone in the cars parked in store and office parking lots between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. that night. Part of our team did talk to a hotel employee who "knew what we were asking" but d...