JBMS member, Gordon Celender, who visited Mutemwa for six weeks in 2006, will be running the Antrim Coast Half Marathon on 27 Aug 2023 to raise funds for the Mutemwa Leprosy Care Centre in Zimbabwe.

Mutemwa is home to people living with leprosy and other illnesses. The John Bradburne Memorial Society continues the work of Mutemwa's late warden, John Bradburne in supporting the community still living there, through the provision of food, medication, care, shelter, clothing etc.

Gordon ran his first marathon in 1985 under three hours, and his personal best of 2hr:55 in Boston back in 1988. Since then he’s successfully run 46 full marathons all over the world, including twelve times in Dublin, London (3x), New York, Berlin, Chicago, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Athens, Moscow and many other cities. He’s used his endurance and fitness to raise money for the needy, sick, handicapped and disabled, unborn and expectant mothers, and the persecuted Church.

Gordon and JBMS would be most grateful if you would make a generous donation as he runs his 33rd competitive half marathon on the scenic coast of County Antrim in Ireland at the end of August.

Our sincere thanks to him and all who support the work of JBMS and the Mutemwa Leprosy Care Centre where Servant of God John Bradburne worked so selflessly for over a decade before he was martyred for the Church and the poor whom he loved and served so humbly.