supporting our local community
Wounded Warriors Project Labor Day Ninja Warrior Competition
Since September 2021, we’ve hosted a our annual Wounded Warriors ninja competition on Labor Day weekend. This two-day competition raises money for the Wounded Warriors Project. This project supports wounded veterans and their families.
Ninja Kids for Safe Kids
For the past few years we have hosted a January competition fundraiser (sign up here or go here for more information) to support Safe Families for Children. This organization helps keep children and families together. It also sets up host families so that kids don’t have to go into the welfare system. Instead, they can have stable families. If you would like more ways to get involved, check out our sponsorship packages or you can donate on the Safe Families Website.
Tobacco Road Marathon
In March 2024 we helped sponsor some of our employees to run the Tobacco Road Full and Half marathons. This local nonprofit race puts its funds towards four organizations: Hope for the Warriors (supporting families from the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejune), American Red Cross (trains people to respond to everyday emergencies), Rails-to-Trails (helps preserve local abandoned railroads), and JDRF (an organization focused on type 1 diabetes research).
Gail Parkins Memorial 5k Walk/Run for Ovarian Cancer
Our staff have annually been participating in the Gail Parkins Memorial 5k Walk/Run to love and support survivors and those still battling Ovarian Cancer. It is also a way we can pay tribute to Carol Auer, who is our CEO Ken Auer’s wife. She is a loving Christ follower, caring mother of 3, and the backbone of Rock Solid Warrior. She is currently in her 12 year battle and current remission with Ovarian Cancer. Click here to join in supporting ovarian cancer research to help treat and prevent it.
For more information on sponsorship opportunities please reach out to ken.auer@rocksolidwarrior.com
Supporting our Global Community
Northern Zambia
Since 2012, Ken Auer (our CEO) has visited Zambia to help strengthen and encourage the church there along with helping further the progress towards the vision of Abundant Futures of Northern Zambia. It will be an ongoing effort as the Lord has already done great things there, but there is so much left to do as the work goes forward with a budget deficit as they continue to change the trajectories of many children in one of the financially poorest sections of one of the financially poorest countries in Africa.
Read more about Latterrains Christian School and Abundant Futures of Northern Zambia and consider donating and supporting this worthy cause here.
Check out this blog post to learn more about Ken’s most recent trip and how God’s been working in northern Zambia.