Hello to our CHI Marathon Team Members!

Greetings to all of you!

Our team goal is threefold -

First is to get our CHI name out there for all the world to see. Let everyone know that Children's Hope International cares and works for Homes, Health and Hope for children throughout the world.

Second is to raise $10,000 for CHI's Greatest Need Fund, providing immediate material aid, medical, nutritional, educational and social assistance to children in desperate circumstance.

Third is to have a lot of fun running for the first two!
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The response to our initial invitation has been most encouraging. We have CHI runners from all over the country expressing serious interest in running the 2008 Bank of America Chicago Marathon for Children's Hope International.

Registration -

Go ahead and register immediately as the race is limited to 45,000 runners and fills up fast. (VERY FAST). Bank of America expects registration to close in April. Type Children's Hope International in the fill-in box after the drop-down list of charity names.

Click here to register online.

Click here for a downloadable mail-in registration form (PDF).

Click here to confirm your registration.

Once you are registered, please email me with your confirmation number.

CHI Communication -

1) Open the PDF of the Children's Hope Chicago Marathon poster by clicking the link above or the one on the blog sidebar. Print out copies at home and use them to publicize your efforts in your health club, church, family gathering (Easter Dinner?), etc. Use it to recruit runners and sponsors for your own run. If you are sponsored for over $500, you may choose to have CHI reimburse you for your registration fee of $110.

2) This CHI Run for Hope blog is a medium to communicate with one another as well as with committed and prospective sponsors. All you need to contribute is a confirmed registration to run and a Google account (if you do not already have one, simply follow the provided instructions in your blog author invitation.) You may add photos and information about yourself on your profile and share through your posts. You may add photos, video and links in your post, too. Let us know you want to blog! Your invitation is waiting.

3) Please talk this up among your friends and family. We need to recruit runners and sponsors in order to help children in desperate circumstances. It's the kids who make it all worthwhile.

I hope you are all as excited as I am. Keep thinking about the kids as you do your training for this event. Remember to pray for them and for each other as we all get ready to RUN FOR HOPE!

Mary House
Children's Hope International - Chicago