LIFE Runners are LIFE Group Devotions members who pray,
raise funds, and run...All In Christ for Pro-Life!
"REMEMBER The Unborn, Jer 1:5"

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* 2012 St. Louis Rock-N-Roll 1mi/5K/half/full Marathon (21 Oct):  FLYER.  MEMBERSHIP.
* 2011 KC 5K/half/full Marathon (15 Oct):  170 LIFE Runners/walkers age 6 to 71, $35K raised, Video.
* LIFE Runners Team Updates (www.LIFErunners.org/about):  Email sign up and Facebook sign up.
* LIFE Group Devotions (www.LIFEgroup413.org):  Email sign up and Facebook sign up.
* Outreach/Partners:  articles, radio, video, speaking, photos (here).
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Vision: Pray and run as a team until we Cross the finish line that ends abortion.  LIFE Runners Creed.
Mission: LIFE Group Devotions members who pray, raise funds, and run…All In Christ for Pro-Life!
Values: Keep the Faith, Respect Life from Conception to Natural Death, Run so as to Win.  Be-Attitudes.
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Goal for 2012 St. Louis “Gateway to Life” 5K/half/full Marathon (21 Oct): Build a miracle team of 262 LIFE Runners to raise $50K for three beneficiaries:  St. Louis Thrive pregnancy help bus, Sioux Falls Alpha Center pregnancy help bus, and St. Louis Good Shepherd. Each teammate should recruit another LIFE Runner and raise (or contribute) at least $250 for the beneficiaries (guidance)…may select other Pro-Life beneficiaries for funds over $250.  87% of mothers considering abortion who see their unborn baby ultrasound…choose Life!  To join team:  MEMBERSHIP.  Please pray with us…All In Christ for Pro-Life!
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Upcoming Races:  Join us for the 2012 St. Louis half/full Marathon (21 Oct) and 2013 Black Hills half/full Marathon (6 Oct), and 2014 Air Force half/full Marathon (mid Sep)…all In Christ…for ProLife!  You can also Represent LIFE Runners at other races.  Planning an “A-Cross the Country” relay during Spring 2013 or 2014, collaborating with 40 Days for Life…led by Jeff Grabosky who ran across America Jan to May 2011.
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Five year plan:  Have reach/impact like Susan G. Komen…countering their support of Planned Parenthood.  Continue to schedule an annual Fall national marathon and direct an annual “A-Cross the Country Relay for Life” starting 2013 Spring 40 Days for Life.  Have LIFE Runners Chapters in every state.  Raise $500K for Pro-Life causes.

LIFE Runners…from start (conception) to natural finish!
LIFE Runners…we pray & run for Their Lives!
LIFE Runners…”REMEMBER The Unborn, Jer 1:5″
LIFE Runners…we run so others may crawl! 
LIFE Runners…protecting, healing, celebrating Life!

Faith Journey: The National LIFE Runners Team is the action arm of LIFE Group, Inc.  LIFE Runners apostolate was co-founded by running partners Pat Castle and Rich Reich in 2008, flowing from the LIFE Group Devotions that they co-founded in 2007.  LIFE Runners compete together in one half/full marathon each year, raising awareness and funds…for ProLife!  To help save babies (and families), they have competed in the following races: 2008 Chicago Marathon, 2009 Twin Cities Marathon, 2010 Sioux Falls half/full Marathon, 2011 KC 1mi/5K/half/full Marathon.  The day before racing the 2009 Boston Marathon, Pat saw “REMEMBER” stamped on the sidewalk at the Holocaust Museum, which inspired the LIFE Runners jersey (“REMEMBER The Unborn Jer 1:5″).  During the Sioux Falls half/full Marathon with 17 LIFE Runners, Rob Rysavy thought, “why not build a team of 100 LIFE Runners for 2011?”  Pat’s brother Steve Castle and friend Sue Peters (communications officer) had the same big vision.  LIFE Group Devotions authors Rob, Steve, Rich, and Pat joined together in prayer to develop the LIFE Runners Vision, Mission, Values…and set the 2011 goal (100 LIFE Runners, $25K for ProLife).  Rich drafted the LIFE Runners Creed in Nov 2010 after praying in front of an abortion mill.

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Patron Saint of the LIFE Group:  St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.  St. Pio could certainly be the patron saint of the Unborn.  As a seminarian, the Blessed Virgin Mary entrusted to him the soul of an unborn girl whose father’s death he witnessed in the vision.  He is known to have interceded for many infertile married couples who conceived.  St. Pio is also tied to the National LIFE Runners Team because coach Pat had a miraculous encounter with him the last 9 min and 51 sec of the 2006 Pikes Peak Ascent (photo/article).  Adopted by LIFE Group on his Feast Day (23 Sep 2011).  St. Pio, we ask your intercessory prayers for our mission to end abortion…for the Unborn, their mothers/fathers, and their extended family.