The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has given United Bible Societies (UBS), and national Bible Societies under this banner – including Bible Society Australia – consultative status with the UN agency.
“As an official partner of UNESCO, UBS is now entitled to participate in its meetings by invitation… UNECSO’s recognition of UBS’s competence in literacy work means that the Bible Societies will also be able to participate in the planning and execution of UNESCO’s literacy programmes,” said the most recent United Bible Societies newsletter.

One of the contributing strengths of UBS that assisted in gaining UNESCO recognition is believed to be the wide international reach of the Bible Society movement.

For more information see Bible Society Australia website: http://www.biblesociety.org.au/news/bible-society-literacy-programmes-gain-unesco-recognition

Here’s videos of some of the participants explaining why they did this…

You can organise your own ride with friends and people from your church during the months of April, May and June, and make a Tax Deductible Donation before the end of the financial year.

You might do short ride to the local coffee shop or a long weekend tour, or you might not even do a ride at all…

The main point is to make a donation before 30th June and receive a receipt for your tax deduction in time for this year’s tax return.

If you want to, you can register yourself at Towards the Goal website, and make a donation for fundraising under your own name.

Alternately, you can sponsor someone already registered on the Towards the Goal website under the End of Tax Year Ride.

Either way, you can enter your credit card and email address and instantly receive a receipt for your donation.

Please also forward this information onto your friends and people from church so that they too can make a donation and receive a tax deduction.

Please remember to take some photos and send us your story for the Bike for Bibles blog and Facebook page.

END OF FINANCIAL YEAR 2012 FUNDRAISING PAGE

We’ve just launched a new website for telling A history of Bike for Bibles – see: http://history.bikeforbibles.org.au.

If you’ve been involved as a rider, roadie or in some other capacity over the years, please feel free to contribute your stories and photos to this website.

This is a Bike for Bibles Community project. Its presently a blank canvas, but we hope in coming months we’ll all be able to relive some amazing rides and adventures!

Please assist by sharing your BFB story.

PURCHASE JERSEY

Our permanent facebook address is now: https://www.facebook.com/bikeforbibles

This complements our Twitter address: https://twitter.com/bikeforbibles

You can keep up with latest ride and Bike for Bibles information by liking us on Facebook and following us on Twitter!

Robert Marchand 100 years and 2 months completed 24.25 km in 60 minutes. This represents just over two 200 m laps of the UCI World Cycling Centre’s wooden track each minute for an hour!

Monsieur Marchand is an inspiration to us all!

For more information see our facebook post.

Friday 2 March – 5pm to 8pm

Ride or Walk

Free Sausage Sizzle!

More Information:
Graeme Perry
cyclops.05@hotmail.com
03 6435 7647

4 days, 460km, 6000m climbing!

Conquer Falls Creek, Dinner Plain, Mt Hotham and Mt Buffalo and possibly win a trip for 2 to the Tour de France.

A brand new ride for 2012.

ITINERARY:

Day 1 Sat 3 Nov: Wangaratta – Beechworth – Yackandandah – Mt Beauty; 122km, 1000m gain

Day 2 Sun 4 Nov: Mt Beauty – Falls Creek – Anglers Rest – Omeo; 104km, 1900m gain

Day 3 Mon 5 Nov: Omeo – Mt Hotham – Harrietville – Bright; 111km, 1700m gain

Day 4 Tue 6 Nov: Bright – Mt Buffalo – Myrtleford – Milawa – Wangaratta; 134km, 1300m gain

COMMENTS:

I’m really excited about this ride. I drove the route in January, and can advise that it passes through some beautiful country. The climbs are long and challenging and will require focussed training, but they aren’t ridiculous. I think being able to back up each day is where some of the challenge will be, and training for this aspect of the ride will be rewarded.

Each day is about half a Tour de France mountain stage.

FUNDRAISING TARGET:

$1,000 (4 days at $250) fully Tax Deductible

To register an interest in this ride and for more information, contact:
Steve Cranney
p: 03 9877 9277
e: steve.cranney(at)biblesociety.org.au