What's Your Challenge | bethesdafarm

What's Your Challenge

Finding the stories that matter and the people that write them.
In all 48 states!

July 12-21, 2021

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So “What’s Your Challenge?" From our perspective, challenges generally come in 3 different forms; the Innate, the Ambush and the Self-Inflicted. The innate are those who have challenges from birth. Their challenge is their way of life. Their lives are a daily response of determination. Then there’s the Ambush. These are the ones that we didn’t see coming. They generally demand immediate attention at the worse possible times. Now, the more adventurous, self-inflicted challenges. Generally these are statements of passion and faith. It’s a journey that find the edge of possibility and then push it just a little bit further. It’s an important question and one that deserves some thought… and a response. The question is engaging and quite possibly life changing.

Ride Information

Since we began in 2015, the number of people we’ve been privileged to serve with our day program is also now going to offer permanent residential housing for some of our friends that attend our program. By sponsoring this ride across the country you will be helping to give a home to some truly awesome individuals. Thank you so much for considering a donation and please download the "Riders Information" for more details.

RIDERS BIO's

John Evans

John has been riding motorcycles for over 40 years. He’s enjoyed riding in 5 different countries and has well over 200,000 miles of roads under his belt and has never lost the love of riding. Every mile is exciting. John was a film director for over 20 years and founded Storytelling Pictures, a media production company in Grand Rapids. John has worked in over 26 different countries filming amazing stories and meeting amazing people. He is the director of the documentary “The Reckoning,” which highlights the heroic acts of the Dutch Resistance during WWII. The film won 2nd place in the NY International Film Festival and was released in select theaters nationwide. In 2015 John and his wife Marcia founded Bethesda Farm, a non-profit day program and residency for adults with mental disabilities. John left his company in 2016 to focus all of their attention on Gods calling at Bethesda Farm.

Vern Hyndman

Vern is a curious traveler, whose journey through life seems more like the crazed wanderings of an escaped beagle than arrow-straight directness. Past wanderings include medical research in anesthesia as a biomedical engineer, networking from just before ethernet to the crest of the wave of the internet, and now the Pastor of Disaster intervention. Vern seeks the heart of the Father, through the life of the Son, in the power of the Spirit… and spreads it all around like a prodigal with Dad’s platinum card. Meet Vern in Turkey, or Cambodia, or the local diner on an 8000 mile Harley pilgrimage.

Route at a Glance

Target Schedule

Day 1 - Leaving Bellows Falls VT

Day 2 - Leaving Middletown VA

Day 3 - Leaving White Oak GA

Day 4 - Leaving Pine Bluff AR

Day 5 - Leaving Clayton NM

Day 6 - Leaving Salt Lake City UT

Day 7 - Leaving Lakeview OR

Day 8 - Leaving Missoula MT

Day 9 - Leaving Rapid City SD

Day 10 - Leaving Waterloo IA

Day 10 - Arrive Allendale MI