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" RELENTLESS" Powerlifting Meet 2018
a Benefit for HopeKids
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We are very honored to be a part of Relentless for the last SEVEN years! This will also mark our FIFTH year being a part of TEAM HOPE!

This year promises to be "extra" special for us since our oldest boys will be lifting in the meet along side us! They have always traveled with us to powerlfiting meets, this time, they will be lifters as well. We are so proud of how they have taken the next step :-)

The Relentless Mission: To build relationships, change lives, and serve God by uniting strong men and women with even stronger children.

HopeKids Mission: HopeKids provides ongoing events and activities and a powerful, unique support community for families who have a child with cancer or some other life-threatening medical condition. We surround these remarkable children and their families with the message that hope can be a powerful medicine.

RELENTLESS teams up the strongest people on the planet to raise money by lifting insane amounts of weight in honor of the most fragile who can’t. The measure of strength isn’t just determined by a number on a barbell, it can also be measured by how much you endure and what you overcome. The lifters are strong, the HopeKids and their families are stronger.

Proceeds from Relentless 2018 will benefit www.hopekids.org and their ongoing HopeDay Program of events and activities. In 2018, HopeKids will serve approximately 3,000 families across five chapters (Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, North Texas, and as of last year - Kansas!) and will provide these families with more than 900 different events at no cost. You can help provide HOPE.

Hopekids presents opportunity for families, who are constantly going to appointments for their child's illness, to put fun events on their calender. There isn't a treatment or drug in the world that can bring more happiness to these families than the events provided by this organization.

Once a year, we team up with Hopekids for an event known as RELELNTESS. In this event, around 100 powerlifters are selected to raise funds for Hopekids and also lift in an official UPA sanctioned meet to put on a show for the kids. The atmosphere during this event cannot be put into words. You just have to feel it for yourself. There is a connection between the lifters and the kids that is amazing. You would think that it is the lifters showing strength to the children. But it is quite opposite. Learning about them and watching them go crazy for the show teaches us lifters more about strength then you could imagine. We may be lifting hundreds of pounds, but the struggles these families endure with their child's illness show more strength than any weight ever lifted. It is truly humbling to be a part of Relentless.

This is why we ask you to join us in making a difference. Because the dollars you give go to a cause much larger than us. Giving Hopekids what they need to continue making the lives of these families much better.

To make a donation to HopeKids, click here to visit our familiy's fundraising page.
If you'd like to donate to one of us specifically, here are the links to our individual pages:

Thank you,
John & Ann, Johnny and Vincent Lenz