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As I mentioned yesterday, Bob Ives* shared two analogies at our December dessert regarding the value of our work with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and encouraged participants to prayerfully consider supporting us.  He gave me permission to share these analogies with a wider audience as we seek to address our current operating shortfall of ~$10,000.  Below's the second analogy.  

The other analogy is of a soccer team. A group of 11 players need a good coach, or everyone will want to play his game. A good coach helps the forwards, the midfield, the defense and the goalie work with one another. Good passing, support when another player is being pressured by the other team. Tom's ministry is like being a soccer coach who helps a team come together, pass to one another, share the work of bringing the ball downfield. But the coach doesn't play. Soccer isn't like football where the coach calls the plays from the sidelines. Soccer is a game of playing the ball together, having had help during practice on how to do that.

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*Bob's an InterVarsity Christian Fellowship alumnus who served as senior pastor of Grantham Brethren in Christ (PA) for 30 years and an adjunct professor at Messiah College for 34 years. While at the College, he taught a class on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and other Oxford Christian Writers.