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Marathon ministry trains runners to put ‘one foot in front of the other’

Bob Smietana | Jan 7, 2013

(RNS) Over the past 10 years, Mark Simpson and his wife have helped train more than 3,000 people to run a marathon. Most, like Simpson, were couch potatoes before they started. “We have faith in them until they can have faith in themselves,” he said. By Bob Smietana.

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