A Hero of Sports and a Hero of the Faith
January 30, 2009 (Friday)
Sunday evening the Timbergrove Baptist Church will be meeting in the home of our members, the Washburns, where we will have supper and watch a big TV. I’ll be watching Kurt Warner, quarterback, with a new eye, because of what Dale Pogue wrote about him in his blog.
Dale said that Kurt was an all-state high school football player who earned a scholarship to college, where he was not a starter on the team until his senior year, when he led the conference in passing and total offense. Drafted by Green Bay in 1994, he was immediately dropped. So he got a job in a grocery store, where he met his wife to be. She had two children, one of them in a wheelchair. Kurt fell in love with Brenda and her children, taking them with them on dates and carrying the boy when necessary. They all fell in love with each other, and Kurt and Brenda married. Kurt prayed that God would give him a job that would support his family, and soon was playing Arena football. From there he went to a farm team in 1997, then to the St. Louis Rams as third string quarterback. He played in Superbowl XXXVII, was traded, injured, and out for a year before becoming the Cardinals quarterback, then led them to next Sunday’s Superbowl game. When interviewed after the conference championship game January 18, he gave glory to the Lord for leading him through adversity to this point in life. The era of sports heroes who set good examples for youth is not over yet.
Our church heard a hero of the Faith Wednesday night when Mrs. Ann Cooper, daughter of Ruth and Troy Conner, leaders in our church, presented a program on her work in the Fiji Islands. In 2003, she and her husband, David, vacationed in the Islands, and the Lord laid the spiritual needs of the loving Fiji people on her heart. She felt the Lord’s leadership in becoming a Kindergarten teacher in Fiji, and now returns three times a year, bearing many boxes of school items for the children at her own expense. What an inspirational testimony. She lifted our hearts closer to the Lord with her dynamic testimony. Please pray for her.