Monday, December 15, 2008

saturday night charity work

Whats up studs, Been a long week for me. I flew to PAO last week, but had to leave early so I could get back to start preparing for my charity golf tournament that benefits FCA. We had a banquet the night before the terny too. all in all we raised nearly 50,000 dollars for the cause. But, i can tell you this...when you have a celebrity golf tournament there is a lot that goes into it. First off, you have a buncha guys come in that are used to being kinda spoonfed, so they are hight maintenance. you have to have activities planned to keep everyone from getting bored...because if they are flying in from all over the country for you, you want to make sure they have a good time. you have to make sure their hotel accomodations are right and ready, transportation is taken care of, and be able to direct them to gyms and what not. Also, you have to collect prizes for the tournament, auction items for the banquet and attend planning meetings for the whole process. If its your name on the tournament you want to make sure that things are going to be smooth. i can guarantee you that my phone rang 1000 times during that week. I promise i'm telling you all this for a reason. For the banquet we had a man named Dr. Joe Stowell fly in to speak. Dr Stowell is the former head of the Moody Bible Institute and now is president of Cornerstone University in Michigan. He was speaking at PAO in 2002 when i bought into Christianity. The message he gave was about the gift of giving. He talked about how we could be gone at any minute and what we do with our resources now really matters because we may not have anything 10 minutes from now. he himself got into a massive car accident where he flipped the car several times...and admittedly, while upside down in the car, began asking himself if he had been gracious enough with his time and money.
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord,and he will repay him for his deed.
Proverbs 19:17
So, in todays society, we are told that we are nearing a depression...please...there are countries that people survive on 1 dollar a day. Where people eat anything that crawls...you do not want to be a bug in cambodia. I know its easy for people with money to say give, spend, share...blah, blah, blah. but, what are we doing with our time and money? What and how much do we really need? During Dr Stowell message there were rich old business men standing up in the back of the room crying. I've had several buddies tell me how inspired they were by the whole event. and during this slow economy we actually came together and raised a lot of money. 28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Basically, dont worry be happy....everything is gunna be alright...everything is gunna be alright. lil mix of a few songs there
We're too blessed to be stressed studs
waino

2 comments:

Jules said...

Thanks Adam, I can't imagine how stressful and tedious last week was for you, 1000 calls, aaahhh! I get annoyed when I get 15. Nice work and I see you figured the profile thing out. Picture change?

Tyler Durham said...

Adam -

I work for FCA in Lousiana and started a golf tournament two years ago. I feel your pain, but doesn't it feel good when you see everybody having a blast and everything coming together? Thank you for using your influence as a big league baseball player to make a difference for the kingdom. Don't stop!