Page 182: Kevan Chandler (Pt 2): We Carry Kevan - Six Friends, Three Countries, No Wheelchair
The Unfolding
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Kevan Chandler was the second of his siblings to be diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare neuromuscular disease. In 2016, he and his friends took a three-week trip across Europe, leaving his wheelchair at home while his friends carried him in a backpack. It was a crazy dream-come-true trip, where God began to show Kevan that he wanted to inspire others to deep friendships and adventures. An avid storyteller, Kevan Chandler is a writer and speaker worldwide about his unique life with a disability. Kevan is the founder of the nonprofit We Carry Kevan, where more than 1,000 families have received backpacks so they can experience their own adventures.
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| 0:00.0 | Page 182 of the unfolding is the story of Kevin Chandler. |
| 0:04.8 | I wrote to them and said, hey, I want to go to Europe in a backpack for three weeks. |
| 0:08.9 | I have this spirit of adventure, but not the body of adventure. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm not doing this without you. |
| 0:13.8 | Are you interested? |
| 0:14.8 | And all three of them wrote back within like five minutes and all said, yes. |
| 0:20.8 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:24.2 | Since the beginning of time. |
| 0:27.4 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:33.6 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:36.4 | Okay. another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:47.8 | Hi, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:50.8 | Have you ever done something that seemed impossible? |
| 0:53.9 | Kevin Chandler was about to do something crazy. In fact, in his words, it was ridiculous. |
| 0:57.0 | Kevin was the second of his siblings to be diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy. And he'd been in a |
| 1:02.4 | wheelchair since he was young. If you missed last week's episode, you will definitely want to go |
| 1:07.1 | back and listen to part one of this story because that's where Kevin shared about his |
| 1:11.1 | early years and the family he grew up in and his faith and all those things contributed to |
| 1:16.3 | who Kevin is today and made it possible for him to dream about the impossible. Kevin is the |
| 1:22.6 | founder of We Carry Kevin, an incredible nonprofit that's making the impossible possible for friends with disabilities. |
| 1:29.7 | He's been a featured speaker at TEDx and Google, and the story he's sharing today is the subject of a documentary and two books. |
| 1:37.1 | So how does a guy who's been in a wheelchair since he was young get the idea to go backpacking through Europe? |
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