Christian Athletes and Their Daily Walk
Today was another hard day for St Louis Cardinals fans. We said goodbye to Darryl Kile this morning at a memorial service held at Busch Stadium. Darryl's passing has affected so many in the St Louis area. The Cardinals are a team loaded with Christians. The one with the most visibility lately seems to be Mike Matheny. How would our daily Christian walk be if we spent 7 months per year working 12 hour days, 3 months of which are spent on the road? It may seem like vacation dream to many of us who don't have to live it, but how do you take care of your family when you are away from home? Take it from someone who as a USAF officer and has spent an average of 150 days away from home over the last 10 years or so. It can be very difficult to maintain your Christian witness on the road! How do you teach your kids right from wrong, evil from good, God's way verses the world's way, when you are living out of a suitcase for half of the summer? I have the highest respect for Christian athletes that continue to dedicate each and every day to the Lord and act as role models and mentors for all those people who look up to them. It is hard enough to maintain your Christian walk when you are in familiar surroundings, with an 8 or 9 hour per day job, and with all the things in your life going right. Praise God for those athletes who take their relationship with God seriously! It is so important in times like the ones the Cardinals have gone through this last week with the passing of Darryl Kile and Jack Buck.

Our New Trailer: "The Nomad"
We picked up our new trailer last night. It is a nice, clean, sleek 27 foot Nomad. Hopefully "The Nomad" will give us many years of pleasure just as "Old Faithful" did. We hope to take it up to Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota just after the 4th of July. We just can't pass up the opportunity to go to the Mall of America!

FBCOF Wednesday Night Bible Study
I am looking forward the First Baptist Church of O'Fallon's Wednesday Night Bible Study tonight. I am feeling a little drained today and could use some "filling up" tonight. The Bible Study is led by Rusty Bean and seems to be just what the College and Career students want. It will be a good chance to fellowship with younger brothers and sisters in Christ, to build on our relationship as a unified body of Christ, and to get recharged for another busy weekend in the College and Career Department.

Bible Verse of the Day:
Ephesians 4:11-13-- And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.