Team Engler

Dear Friend:

In November, Ben and I plan to ride together in a fundraising bicycle ride in Israel for the ALYN Children's Hospital Wheels of Love.  We are asking for your support.

It is a multi-day, challenging ride that starts in the Judean Desert and ends at ALYN Hospital in Jerusalem.   Ben's schedule is hard to predict  as an active IDF combat soldier.  But we hope and pray to be able to ride together for Alyn come November and that we will then be living in better days.  

During war or peace, ALYN treats children of all races, nationalities and religions, and the professional staff at ALYN reflects the diversity of the communities for which it cares. Unfortunately, the war has significantly increased the financial need for caring for thousands of disabled children, from all of Israel's communities.    Anyone with any experience in Israel's hospitals knows that the professional staff and the patients are drawn from all corners of Israel's complex society.   

To support the Alyn Hospital is to support Israel in the entirety of its beautiful humanity.    It is to choose life.     

The Alyn ride this year is dedicated to Yakir Hexter z'l, a young man who fell in January defending Israel. Yakir and his father would have ridden together in the ride were it not for the war. Yakir and his family have supported ALYN for years by participating in Wheels of Love.   Our debt to these young heroes cannot be repaid, and we are honored to be able to ride in Yakir's memory.  

Please sponsor Ben and me so we can have a huge impact in the ability of ALYN to care for hundreds of children in need.