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Your best dunk ? Your favorite dunk? Your favorite dunk to watch?
A. Anything with stank. I can save almost any bad pass for par.
B. Self Pass off the backboard from the middle mini
C. Zeke’s layout |
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Dunks that you have invented and named?
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Most embarrassing moment on team?
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Most inspiring moment on team?
We had a Bible study at 11:00 p.m. on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida the last day before we left to go home from a 10 day Florida tour in 2006. What started out as a Bible study turned out to be so much more. We went around speaking truth to one another and encouraging each other in love. It was amazing. |
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Favorite cartoon character?
Jasmine from Aladdin |
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Your biggest fear?
Failure |
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What is your nickname on the team?
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Injuries?
Ankles/Knees |
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Favorite Verse?
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Galatians 5:1 “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” |
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Why did you join Above and Beyond?
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I joined because I wanted to dunk, I stayed on the team because I want to represent the lifestyle. |
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Best aspect of Above and Beyond?
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Fellowship |
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Favorite ministry experience?
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At Binghamton University in NY while working with Word of Life I got to talk to 3 baseball players that got saved. |
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How do you prepare yourself for a ministry?
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Prayer |
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At least 3 people that have influenced you the most?
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1. My father
2. Dani rule
3. Adam Myers, my freshmen year roommate.
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How & Why did you decide to give you life back to Christ?
I grew up in a Catholic home and believed that my salvation depended upon the scales of good versus bad. My family was not extremely devout but Catholicism was the only thing I knew. I always thought that I had done more bad than good; therefore I was destined for hell. It was this belief that drove me to be indifferent towards the things of God. I never hit rock bottom so I never felt like God was my only option left.
Several different ministries like The Power Team and LIFT Student Ministries presented me with opportunities to meet God but I did not understand them. I even went as far as to pray the “sinner’s prayer” a couple of times, but it was driven by a fear of hell not by the intent to know God.
My older sister had accepted Christ and as a new Christian invited me to a church winter camp. I was a little hesitant but had nothing better to do, so I went. Once again I prayed the “sinner’s prayer” but did not understand it. It wasn't until about 3 months later that everything started to make sense. I was sitting in the car with my sister and confessed that I understood what salvation was and knew I was not saved. My sister, Ashley, lead me to Christ that night, February 21, 2001, in the parking lot of an Applebee’s. I finally understood everything this time. I realized the freedom that God had been offering me all along: freedom from my sin, freedom from my stuff, freedom from myself. |
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How have you grown since joining Above and Beyond?
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I have continued to experience freedom in Christ deeper and deeper. |
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What aspect of the Above and Beyond life still challenges you the most?
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The lifestyle, on and off the court. It’s easy to live the Above and Beyond lifestyle during a practice or ministry. I am challenged most by living that lifestyle out side of the ministry format, my day to day life. |
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Where do you see God calling you?
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Ministry, with Teens. |
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What is your vision for Above and Beyond’s future?
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Light of the world |
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