Share Well With Others » Travel http://www.share5.org Compassion, Sacrifice, Passion, Teamwork, Leadership - Creating a Life That Reflects the Character of Christ Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:57:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Share5.org 2010 chad@worldwins.org (Chad Houck) chad@worldwins.org (Chad Houck) 1440 http://www.share5.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/book-presale-ad2.jpg Share Well With Others http://www.share5.org 144 144 Creating a Life That Reflects the Character of Christ - Sharing Well With Others Compassion, Sacrifice, Passion, Teamwork, and Leadership - What would a life built around these character traits look like? What started as an experiment in October 2008 has become an indefinate road trip called the Share5 Tour as the Houck family of 5 travels the US and beyond in their 34 foot RV sharing Jesus and sharing well with others. Be sure to watch for the new book entitled Share Well With Others, releasing soon! Christian, Jesus, Share5, compassion, sacrifice, passion, teamwork, leadership Chad Houck Chad Houck chad@worldwins.org no clean Safely in Oregon http://www.share5.org/2010/03/safely-in-oregon/ http://www.share5.org/2010/03/safely-in-oregon/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:06:47 +0000 Chad Houck http://www.share5.org/?p=722 Our first 500 miles as a family of 5 are in the rearview mirror!  Yesterday, we loaded the minivan, whined emphatically that it was not the RV, and headed for Portland, OR where Amy and the 3 KIDS will spend the next 9 days with family.  As she visits great grandmothers, aunts, sisters, and cousins, I will fly to Phoenix on Saturday for the first of the two UthBuild March builds in Puerto Penasco, MX.    When the first home is complete and the keys are turned over to the new homeowner, I will fly back to Portland, rejoin Amy, Bethany, Dillon, and Emily, and with the alphabet order restored, (A, B, C, D, and E… Yes it was intentional) our family of five will have what we hope will be a return drive to Boise as uneventful as the outbound one!

So… if you are a High School friend of Amy’s and in Portland this week, drop her a line!  She is in town.  If you happen to be in Mexico, come on by the build site and pound a nail or make a sandwich. (less likely, yes, but believe it or not, we do have a woman “coming by” in Mexico that just HAPPENED to read about the builds, contact us, and volunteer!)

Upon our return to Boise, we will be spending around two weeks helping my mom transition from the Elks Rehabilitation Hospital back to home.  Then we’ll load the RV and see where God takes us!  (Thank you to those who are taking a role in helping make my mother’s transition happen- from meals to overnight stays to visits to phone calls- while we are out of town!)  She is continuing to recover well from spinal surgery, and is expected at this point to regain all functions that she lost prior to the surgery.  Praise God!

Blessings – From the road once again!

The Houcks

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When we returned from Africa in September of 2007 we had been changed.  Something caught our heart.  Today, it is with a sense of renewed vision and purpose that we pursue that something:  the call to make a difference in the lives of others with our own. 

To that end, we will be embarking on a new journey and are asking for your help and support.  It is Memorial Day weekend, 2008, and as of this moment, there is a For Sale sign in front of our house, we have begun the process of selling off the things that we recognize we don’t need, and we are planning for a promotional and educational roadtrip of the US to generate support for the new "Share5" program of World Wins.  What we need to find is a Diesel Class A Motorcoach.  (The image below is just an example for visualization purposes in case anyone is having a hard time picturing this!!)

Rvmockup3Our plan is to have the coach converted by Golden Fuel Systems of Springfield, MO to run on Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO).  Golden has successfully converted numerous recreational vehicles along these lines, and the conversion will allow us to run essentially free fuel from the filtered grease that we can access at restaurants along the route.  With all the necessary filtration components on board, we will be a mobile, sustainable, eco-friendly traveling ministry!

Stay tuned for more information, but if you do know of anyone who may be interested in discussing the tax advantages of a donation (the tax benefits are higher due to the fact that we will be actually USING the RV as opposed to selling/auctioning it for CASH) then please do contact us.

We will happily answer any questions, as well as provide more detailed schedules and financial plans for the tour and the ministry to interested donors.

Blessings, and thank you for your continued support.

Chad & Amy Houck

"Be the change you want to see in the world" – Ghandi

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