100,000 Wheelchairs

This year Joni and Friends gave away their 100,000th wheelchair through Wheels for the World. What would 100,000 wheelchairs all-together look like? If you were able to count one wheelchair every second, and you counted all day long, only stopping to sleep at night, it would take you two days! That is a lot of counting. Most of our wheelchairs are shipped in containers like you see on the back of 18-wheeler big rig trucks. The wheelchairs are folded up, sealed in plastic, and then stacked as close as can be next to each other and on top of each other. If we could line up all of the trucks needed to carry 100,000 wheelchairs, the line of trucks would be more than six and a half miles long! Now that would be a traffic jam! One hundred thousand wheelchairs is a lot of wheelchairs, but remember, Wheels for the World is not just about wheelchairs! Each wheelchair represents a person in a family. And each person and their family hear about God’s love when they get a wheelchair. Thinking about all of those families hearing God’s Word is what really gets us excited!