A Life Worth Following
I still can’t recall what I was doing on June 3, 2002.
But it’s a day that I keep coming back to.
That was the day that Justin Sullivan was killed in a freak accident on Interstate 44.
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Sullivan, you may remember, was a star baseball player at Yukon High School. He was named the state player of the year the day before he died. Massive tires on a semi-truck broke loose, bounded across the median and crushed Sullivan’s SUV.Five years later, I met a youth pastor named Chris Wall. He had been Justin’s youth pastor at Council Road Baptist Church, and he had written a book called “A Life Worth Following” about Justin.
Wall told me the first time we met that he and several others had big plans. They wanted to start a baseball team, do camps and clinics, maybe even go overseas and share their faith through baseball. They wanted to use the game that Justin loved to share the faith that he had.
Lo and behold, the Ambassadors baseball team was born last summer. They played games all over the country and did baseball clinics where they shared their sport and their faith. Then, their summer culminated with a trip to Central America where they again played and preached.
It is truly an amazing story, the way that the life of one young man continues to change lives even though he is gone.
And the story isn’t over. The Justin Sullivan Foundation wants to do more, and you can help.
On Sunday, Oct. 26, the foundation is doing a fundraiser banquet in conjunction with the Major League Baseball Players Alumni. The cost is only $25 a person.
Your wallet too thin for that these days? The foundation is also a finalist to receive a free website. You can cast your vote online for free.
Want more information? Check out www.alifeworthfollowing.org.
What happened to Justin Sullivan on the afternoon of June 3, 2002, is unexplainable, but what has happened since is truly unbelievable.
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