Prop 8 continues...

This clip is from Larry King Live with my old Pastor Miles McPherson. Pastor Miles is at the Rock Church in San Diego where I grew up and started attending church after I got saved in February of 2000, the same month that the Rock Church opened its doors, so I have always had a place in my heart for both the Rock and Pastor Miles.
Pastor Miles is a friend and a true man of God and has been on the front lines of the prop 8 issue. Beyond being a great speaker, Pastor Miles has always had a way of breaking down something complicated and making it easy to understand. I am proud to have this man going bat for what the bible teaches about Marriage being between one man and one women.

For you HUSBANDS...

FORE........

It's that time of year again...golf time. Every year in the Spring, Shepherd Sports hosts it's annual Golf Tournament in an effort to raise money for the growth and scholarship fund of the ministry. We still have room for golfers and are always looking for sponsors and donors. Come join us next Monday for an awesome day of Golf. You can get more info on the shepherd sports site: www.ShepherdSports.org

Time to think...

Surf's Up

Fun picture of me and the boys on a surf day this past April

D-back game...

Arizona vs. Colorado

Couple innings with field seats

The Boys

I am in Arizona this week at a our big sports ministry conference. This is always a great time for me to refresh and meet with other sports mini sty's guys from around the country. Both Matt and Charles are here with me for the first time and I am excited for what they will bring back to our ministry at Shepherd.

I had a chance to surprise the guys with a game at Chase Field where we watched the Dback's vs. the Rockies. It was a great game with a lot of action and a total of 26 hits. The field is amazing and getting to hang with my staff outside of work is a treat I always enjoy.

Join us...

Hanging with the children in the D.R. on last year's trip

I have been spending a lot of time over the last couple months preparing for our trip to the Dominican Republic this year in August. After our informational meeting last week I am getting super excited about this trip and the men and women that will be forever changed by this experience.

I want to invite everyone who didn't have a chance to make the meeting last week to our last informational meeting this Coming: Monday, April 20, at 7pm in rm. 201/202. There is not commitment required, just come and see what God is doing through our ministry and the Dominican. See you there.

Sport's Mission Trip

I want to invite everyone to our informational meeting about our mission trip to the Dominican Republic this coming Wednesday. I had a chance to visit this awesome country last year and can't wait to take our own team down there in August where we'll do youth outreach through sports. Come see all the D.R. has to offer on Wednesday at 7pm in Room 130. Hope to see you there.

Fight Against Cancer...Champs

BACK ROW: Alfonzo, Kareem, Sidney, Me, Idel
FRONT ROW: Mike, Rolo, Cesar

This past weekend I was invited to play in the 2nd Annual Fight Against Cancer Basketball Tournament. I was reluctant at first since the weekends are usually my time to get away from sports and hang with the fam. However, my inner child couldn't help but get excited about playing basketball all weekend.

What my inner child doesn't realize is that my body is in its 30's and doesn't like to play that much basketball. However, the inner child won out as I ended up playing six games in less than 48 hours. After getting beat by 40 in the first game, I was doubting what I had gotten myself into. I give a lot of credit to these seven guys on my team because after that blowout, our team really hit a nice stride and we came back and won the whole tournamnet. We redeemed ourselves by beating the two best teams, including the team that had beat us by 40 in the opening game.

I am only now getting over the soreness from the weekend. I want to thank all the guys for letting this old man run with the young guns. It was a fun weekend that reminded me why I love sports so much, and although the winning is fun, it's ultimately the commraderie and friendships that are being formed when everyone is striving for the same goal. We were not the most talented in this tournament, but we by far played the best team ball and it showed as we beat teams much more athletic and skilled than us.

100,000 Miles...

How often do you see that

My little car or "my beater" as I like to call it, hit the 100,000 miles this past weekend. I don't know why but this seemed like a cool moment as I drove from my house in Simi Valley up over the hill into L.A. where "my beater" right at sunset conquered this cool milestone.

My little car has been quite the blessing over the last couple years. A few years ago, my mechanic said we needed to replace the transmission; but without the funds to pay for it we starting praying that God would take care of the car. The mechanic said the car wouldn't last another couple months without a new transmission but God took care of that car for over a year until we saved up enough money to get it fixed.

It is easy to lose God and His glory when were not looking for it. Be faithful in prayer and watch for God to work miracles in your life. Just like the little beater that could.