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.