{"id":222,"date":"2009-12-14T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvmen.org.uk\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2016-01-06T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T13:20:57","slug":"carls-running-the-london-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/news\/carls-running-the-london-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl&#8217;s Running the London Marathon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">Hi everyone!<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">Over the last 2 years I&#8217;ve taken on an annual challenge to raise money for the work of The Kings Foundation. This year I&#8217;m raising money for CVM, the charity I lead, by running all 26.2 miles of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginlondonmarathon.com\/\">London Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">CVM has some amazing opportunities over the next year, including getting our new world cup souvenir magazine &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvmen.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/scorchio\/\">Scorchio<\/a>&#8221; into nearly every prison cell in the UK! \u00a0We also continue to develop top quality resources for the church and will be running 12 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvmen.org.uk\/Impacting-the-UK.html\">Regional Days<\/a> all over the UK and a big hit national conference. CVM has also just entered into a partnership with the fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorted-magazine.com\/\">Sorted Magazine<\/a>! The diary for 2010 is already packed full of churches crying out to know how to reach out to blokes from Cornwall to Scotland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">So we find ourselves massively in demand but usually on the edge of financial meltdown! We only need another \u00a38k to get Scorchio onto the streets and only \u00a310k to produce the UK&#8217;s first ever men&#8217;s ministry manual we are calling &#8220;The Works&#8221; which will be packed full of hints, tips, resources, research, reviews and more &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/revbeechy\">Please sponsor me<\/a> &#8230; which is really a sponsorship of CVM and a declaration that you are standing with us as we press ahead with what we believe we have been called to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">Huge thanks!<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/news\/carls-running-the-london-marathon\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png?w=750\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone! Over the last 2 years I&#8217;ve taken on an annual challenge to raise money for the work of The Kings Foundation. This year I&#8217;m raising money for CVM, the charity I lead, by running all 26.2 miles of the London Marathon. CVM has some amazing opportunities over the next year, including getting our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,118,151,162,170],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PoLK-3A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":911,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/news\/carls-running-the-london-marathon-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":222,"position":0},"title":"Carl&#8217;s Running the London Marathon!","date":"14 December 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi everyone! 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