2025 Run for the Son 5K a Success!
Our 19th Annual Run for the Son 5K, Fun Run, and Tot Trot was a huge success! We cannot thank our sponsors, vendor booth hosts, volunteers, and participants enough! We greatly cherish everyone's outpouring of love for our ministry. Our race provides essential funds for our staff to continue sharing the Gospel with nearly 600 students each year. Thank you to everyone who helped make our race day go wonderfully! We greatly cherish First United Methodist's generosity for allowing us to use the Gilmer Scout Hut as well.
Our Cup of Legends was awarded to Pleasant Grove Baptist Church for have to most registrations - 159 to be exact! This is the largest team in the history of our 5K. Great job, Pleasant Grove! Our Cup of Champions was earned by Zion Hill Baptist Church! Their team had 20 people participate in one of our races. Congratulations to Zion Hill! In total, our race had 373 registrations. Thank you to everyone who registered!
We had a great time at this year's race, and we can't wait to see everyone back next year for out 20th Annual Run for the Son 5K!
2024 Run for the Son 5K
Our 2024 Run for the Son 5K was tremendous! We are so grateful for those who registered, sponsored, volunteered, lead teams, and anyone else who was involved in making this year’s race a great success. We had a total of 350 people registered for our 5K, virtual 5K, Fun Run, and phantom option. This is our second-highest number of registrations we’ve had for our race. We have YOU to thank for that, registrants! You helped us make this year’s race a great one. THANK YOU!Â
Our trophies were awarded to Pleasant Grove Baptist Church and Covenant Community Ellijay! Pleasant Grove won our Cup of Legends for the seventh year in a row with 147 people on their team. Great job, Pleasant Grove! Covenant Community Ellijay took home the Cup of Champions for having 23 people participate in one of our races. Congrats, CCE! To all of our other teams that participated in this year’s race, we are so grateful for you! We can’t thank you enough! Y’all are amazing!
Breanna Washam, Female Overall Winner
Adam Palmer, Male Masters Winner
Seth Turner, Male Overall Winner
Tracy Glover, Female Masters Winner (not pictured)
past races
2023