Reunion, boxing

On Sunday evening, Nov. 22nd, we had youth groups from five churches attend, over 80 teens, including 12 teens from Edgewood! The Penn Forest worship team led us in worship, and Brandon Beauchamp spoke about being rebelling against the world and being different for God. We collected over 60 canned and dry goods, and attached scriptures to over 600 pieces of candy. The food and candy have been donated to an appreciative Roanoke Rescue Mission.

On a way different note, I watched a great boxing match recently between Andre Ward and Mikkel Kessler on Showtime. If you haven't heard of Ward, he won the gold medal in the 2004 Olympics, and is undefeated. He fought an amazing fight against Kessler, who held the belt coming into this fight. He repeatedly switched to southpaw, his handspeed and accuracy were too much for Kessler from the beginning. On a personal level I respect Ward because of his faith (he calls himself S.O.G for Son of God, he came into the ring to the sounds of a Christian rapper, his robe represents Christ, but most importantly his speech represents his faith). I started following Ward's career a few year's ago after reading about him in a book called A Fighter's Heart by Sam Sheridan. I encourage all boxing fans to check Ward out, and check out this Super Six competition showtime is putting on. They have basically gotten together six of the best super middleweights in the world to fight in a round robin format. For details on it see:http://sports.sho.com/world-boxing-classic.html
Go S.O.G!