I sent a press release to 4 newspapers in my area today and wouldn’t you know, the BIGGEST publication, the Dayton Daily News, issued my press release immediately. Here is the link and the article. Also, the Independent Voice, which is a newspaper from my hometown, said they would be in contact to publish my story once their major festival is over!
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-press-releases/view-press-release/?p=12166
Contact: Alison Ingle
Phone: 937-657-1925
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.alisoningle.theworldrace.org
Centerville resident to embark on around-the-world service mission.
World Racers leave in January for 11-month trip
CENTERVILLE, OH
September 10, 2010– Young adults from across the nation are leaving behind
their lifestyles for a year to cross continents, experience cultures and
positively impact lives–including their own.
Centerville resident, Alison Ingle
will join about 100 squad mates in January to leave the comforts of home and
embark on the World Race. It will be the journey of a lifetime: 11 months
traveling around the globe in community, serving far-flung villages and sharing
the love of Jesus Christ as they go. Some of the countries they will serve in
are India, Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Swaziland and Mozambique.
The World Race is an 11-month, 11-country Christian service missions trip
around the world. A project of Adventures In Missions (AIM), based in
Gainesville, GA, the Race started in 2006 and has sent 16 squads totaling
nearly 1,000 Racers around the world.
“God has blessed me with love and a passion for relationships. Whether it is here in Dayton or in
Malawi, Africa, which I visited last July, I have a love for traveling and
turning strangers into family,� said Alison Ingle, a member of the January 2011
squad. “It’s time for me to accomplish God’s will by serving those who are
caught in sex trafficking rings, people who are impoverished, and those
afflicted with HIV/AIDS.�
“Many people look at the World Race and get the wrong idea,” said
Seth Barnes, founder of the World Race and AIM. “They think it’s about
young people seeing the world. The reality is that, while young people often
sign up because of the adventure aspect, it’s really an initiation experience.
On the World Race you learn about what God is doing on the earth and how to
join Him in it.”
Whether in villages of Nicaragua, the bush of Botswana, or the streets of
Thailand, World Racers depend on the kindness of strangers and other Christians
as they live out their mission of reaching others with Christ’s love. World
Racers live as locals do in each country; they serve communities in many ways –
from playing with orphans, to visiting the sick, doing manual labor or simply
spending time loving and serving forgotten people.
“I went on the World Race because I knew something was missing from the
Christian life we do here [in America],” said Race alumnus Ian Schumann of
Austin, TX. “I had to leave my home and get shaken up, get my world
rocked, in order to find it–but now I know for sure that the Kingdom of God is
everywhere, and we can cultivate it anywhere, because it’s within us, like
Jesus said.”
For more information on the World Race, go to www.theworldrace.org.
World Race participants and staff are available for interviews and speaking
engagements upon request.
Adventures In Missions (AIM) is an interdenominational missions organization
that focuses on discipleship. They emphasize prayer and relationships in their
work amongst the poor. Since being established in 1989, AIM has taken over
80,000 people into the mission field, some for as short as a week and others
for as long as a year or longer. Through 14 bases around the world, AIM has
year-round ministry to places where “the least of these” are found.
AIM believes that by giving people the opportunity to hold orphans, bring hope
to the hopeless, and pray for the sick, lives are transformed.
The World Race
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 877-811-0210
WORLD RACERS: this is a template I received from a World Race staff member. Copy and paste your name and hometown over mine. For extra cheese, write your own quote in the middle! And voila – your own article to send to your town publications…and this isn’t strictly for publishing – this is to get whomever reads this interested in our cause! It will open wonderful lines of communication between you and a major source that can spread your name, the world race and most importantly God’s will for our lives over the next year.
