Ill. pastor swims English Channel for charity

By NicerNews • on September 25, 2009

Original Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com
Author: Associated Press
Original Publication Date: 21 September 2009

Twenty-one miles and nearly 14 hours later, a northern Illinois pastor has fulfilled his goal of swimming the English Channel to raise money for a school in Africa.

It took the Rev. Mike Solberg 13 hours and 31 minutes to swim from Samphire Hoe, England, to Wissant, France, on Saturday.

Solberg is senior pastor of Second Congregational Church in Rockford. His goal is to raise $50,000 to build a school in Waku Kungo, Angola. So far, he’s raised more than $30,000.

Solberg wrote on his blog after his swim that the first five hours were good, followed by four hours that were not.

Overall, he says, “it was a great experience.”