Living Giving: The Story of the 'Mile 7 Shirt'

In the past 12 years, donors have come alongside other fundraising efforts through other marathons that I have run to raise more than $95,000 for organizations including Operation Smile and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

I like to think of the marathons I run as metaphors for the “marathons” so many hurting children and families are “running” toward wholeness — be it suffering from childhood cancer and other catastrophic diseases, being ostracized by virtue of being born with a cleft palate or cleft lip, having been abused and/or abandoned as a child, and any number of other life challenges that leave people feeling hopeless and unloved.