We Are Marshall

We are on a trip to Nashville to see our daughter Mechele and her husband Mike.  We have three of our grandkids with us which is always a blessing.  We decided to take the 13 hour drive from York in our mini-van and took the West Virginia/Kentucky route.  This is a route I had not taken before and was surprised to drive through Huntington, West Virginia which is the home of Marshall University.  That brought back memories of our July leadership retreat at the "DeRemer Retreat Center".


Seeing the community that had gone through so much trauma back in the 1970's.  The football program was a key aspect of their community, everyone was focused on the team and it was an important identifier and image for them.  Almost the whole team and the coach, athletic director, major supporters etc, were all killed in a plane crash.  It devastated the community but they rallied together and created a new team to support out of the ashes.  It was a great reminder of a couple of things, 1) how tragedy, even though difficult and challenging, can bring out incredible things in a community or a person, 2)  how we need each other to make it through the hard things in life, and 3) it takes vision and focusing on the greater transcendent cause to make that difference.

Men's Fraternity is very much like that.  Even though we, thankfully have not gone through a tragedy like Marshall University has we are all going through our own challenges.  As brothers we need to work together and to support each other and to live the four pillars of manhood. 1) reject passivity, 2) accept responsibility, 3) lead courageously, and 4) expect God's greater reward. That's what Men's Frat is all about.  Looking forward to a great year.