This week marks the end of my career. Not the end of my pastoral ministry or of my work in other gospel endeavors, but the end of my coaching “career.” Seventeen of the last 20 years have found me spending most of my November–March Tuesday and Thursday afternoons coaching the…
Today is the first practice for the Lee County Home School Lady Ambassadors varsity and jr. varsity basketball teams. It will be my 15th season of coaching them. I have written elsewhere about how I got involved as a volunteer coach for girls’ basketball. It’s a rather comical story…
I have spent 13 of the last 16 years coaching a girls’ basketball team. As the father of 5 girls (and 1 son) I supposed I should have seen it coming, but the way that I got into it caught me completely by surprise. Not long after taking my…