Encouraging the Nations 5k

🏃‍♂️ About the Race

• Location: 2012 Simonton Rd., Statesville, NC
• Date: 2025-02-08
• Course: Fun, flat course at Statesville Recreation Center. Great course for beginners and a great place for experienced runners to get a new PR! Mostly paved with some beautiful areas of scenery!
• Awards: We will be taking off some gifts from our sponsors at the awards ceremony!

🌍 About Encouraging the Nations

• Mission: Encouraging the Nations is a nonprofit, incorporated in North Carolina in 2018 to provide international support for missions.
• Vision: Go North, South, East, and West helping people lift their burdens through empowering and encouraging them through the love of Christ.
• Founders: Ben and Martha Dobson of Statesville, NC, have worked primarily in Uganda, Africa.
• Experience: Ben and Martha have a great love for missions and have been traveling and ministering for 11 years, with over 20 mission trips since 1995 in North and South America, Europe, and Africa.

💖 Funds Raised

• Support: Funds raised for Encouraging the Nations help facilitate the building of the Rehoboth Christian Village Orphanage and the support of 85 orphans.
• Partnership: Martha and Ben partner with Pastor Robert Kaawha and Rehoboth Christian Fellowship to develop this orphanage.
• Upcoming Mission: Funds will also support a team traveling to Uganda for a 3-day women's conference, a pastor’s conference, a kid’s crusade, and a medical clinic at the orphanage from May 27, 2025, through June 7, 2025.
• Gratitude: Thank you for your support!!

🌐 More Information

• Race Registration: For more details and to register, visit Encouraging the Nations 5k.