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Are you ready for some football!!!! Check out this wacky card to get you pumped up. I put this together to encourage and motivate the guys from Kent State who go to church with us.
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This past weekend I had an awesome experience. For the first time in my life I stood on the sidelines of a Division I NCAA Football team (KSU Golden Flashes) as their team chaplain. To make it even sweeter they played the University of Kentucky.
It was a great expereicne to see all that goes on behind the scenes in practice and pre game and so forth. The experience is one I will never forget.
I was honored and blessed to boldly proclaim the GOSPEL during the pre-game devotion. To speak to the football team about the game plan for the game and to turn it to the GAME PLAN GOD HAS FOR US ALL> the GOSPEL!!!!!
I don’t know how Kent State will do in football this year…I think they have a good team and have a great shot at winning the MAC. They have great heart and talent. Regardless of win or loose…I will pray for God’ glory everytime the team steps on the field. And I will serve my Lord for His glory and to help this team out however I can.
Some of you will be able to relate to this story others won’t. This true life stuggle illustrates that God wants us to expand our horizons and serve Him regardless of our personal opinnions.
Many of you know that I have been blessed to be a part of the pastoral team serving the Kent State University Football team. It has been an awesome and exciting experience. This weekend KSU plays Kentucky. Many of you would say so what. But to me this is a big game. I was raised a Kentucky Wildcat from birth. I have never cheered against the wildcats. It fact the idea of it sounds almost sacreligious. But for the first time ever in my life…I am saying no to big blue!!!!!!! And yes to the ministry God has called me too!
Don’t get me wrong I am still a wildcat at heart,(but not for this game)my ministry takes priority. Ministering and pulling for the Golden Flashes has proven to be something exciting. It has proven to be a very different kind of ministry and I praise God for this opportunity. Going to Kentucky to play the wildcats is going to be an awesome experience. First to be back at Kentucky in the football staduim will bring back many college and boyhood memories. But secondly and most importatnly it has and will be a way in which God expands my horizons. Being part of this team is something new…a new ministry and a new adventure. Being part of a NCAA football team is exciting for sure. It will be something I will remember for a lifetime. And playing the wildcats and cheering against them will be a memory I will never forget either.
Go Flashes for the glory of God.
Game Day Central was a TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!!
I want to first of all thank God for what He did. Without you God, we could not have done it. Second, I want to thank all the volunteers for another awesome VBS. Third, I want to thank all the parents who brought their kids. And last I want to thank the kids for reminding me and everyone else why we do this every year…you guys are worth it!
During VBS this year we had 191 learners and 62 volunteers. We had 15 decisions for Christ…PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!! We collected nearly $200 for Fellowship of Christian Athletes and for the church restart at Eastside Baptist. Lastly, we collected 94 bottles of water, 95 power bars, and 55 sports drinks for our first ever VBS mission project that went to the Kent State University football team. As promised to the youth if they got 50 youth present at VBS, I would dye my hair PINK. There are still traces of it in my hair…great job to everyone!!!!!!
On our family night we had a tailgate party and night full of fun events. The kids totally loved the neo jumpers, horse rides, pop corn, cotton candy, and snow cones. It was really cool having Coach Tobi Jacobi, Running Back Eugene Jarvis #6, Line Backer Stevon Moss #44, Corner Back Jack Williams #2, and Offensive Guard Joe Marafine #65 from the Kent State Football Team and Danny Muir #95 of the Green Bay Packers as our visitors for autographs and photos.
The week was exhausting but when all was said and done, the worship rally pumped everyone up, the music team motivated us all, the teachers taught us strategies for life, missions taught us how to get into the game, the snacks were stadium ready, the recreation gave us a great work out, crafts taught us how to be creative in our game play, security provided us with safety coverage and the administrative team knew how to run the draft….it was a true VICTORY for Jesus…AWESOME JOB!!!!!
I can’t wait to see what God will do through VBS next year…way to go team Broadman!!!!
WHile I have basketball on my brain let me talk about George Mason…the college from the Colonial era’s. George Mason is the father of the bill of rights and had a lot to do with the founding of this nation in colonial days…especially in Virginia. I think it is awesome that this college is in the final four. They represent the idea that the little guy can make it.
I don’t know what will happen…but I am pulling for George Mason College. May their presence in the final four spark the same spark of liberty that was in our forefathers when they started this great nation. May we reflect back on the liberty will each have in this great Nation that GOD has granted us! May we see the Truth of our nation. May we realize that under God we stand, divided we fall. May we see in George Mason that somewhere in each of us is the ability to make a difference.
Go George Mason!
I am excited every year the NCAA tournament begins. Perhaps it is because I grew up in basketball country…the great state of Kentucky. If you live in Kentucky you live and breath basketball…in my case Kentucky Wildcat Basketball. I honestly believe, kind of, that my Grandpa bled blue. I can remember to this day going over, as a family to watch KY basketball at my Grandparents house. Great memories…of which I will treasure all of my life.
However, the NCAA is more than boyish memories. If you really watch them play, even if you don’t like basketball, you get a new understanding for team, disipline, hardwork, and coaching. College Basketball is still a pure sport…as pure as they can be. The players have a desire to win as a team…there is no "I" in team at the college level. THe coaches still get respect from the players and the orchestrate a plan and the players execute it. It is a sport in which the small guy can still win with hardwork and discipline.
This year in the NCAA tournament there seems to have been more upsets than I can recall in my lifetime…additionally, it seems like almost every game has been a close one…the way it should be!
I am glad to see it this way this year. I hope others appreciate this presentation of team, discipline and respect for coaches etc. in a era in which altheletes have lost perspective of who they are and professional sports are out of control. It has been refreshing to watch the NCAA tournament and dream of reality and actually have some restored respect for the game that I love!
