by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 7, 2017 | Chasing Your Dream, Overcoming Adversity, Persistence
Twenty-two-year-old Harvard University student Norman Vaughan was trying to make the freshman football team when he read the headlines in a Boston newspaper, “Byrd to the South Pole.” Thoughts of the expedition consumed him and he told his four roommates, “I’ve got to...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 13, 2017 | Against the Odds, Chasing Your Dream, Long Shots, Uncategorized
Forty miles from Lebourget Air Field in Paris, he began to see the flares. Thirty-three hours earlier, 500 people had watched the 25-year-old pilot take off from a muddy Roosevelt Field runway in New York. He was hoping to become the first pilot to make a solo...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 13, 2017 | Chasing Your Dream, Determination Despite the Odds, Hanging on to Hope, Never Give Up, Uncategorized
As a young boy, Matthew Barnett had a dream for a church that would remain open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. His father, Tommy Barnett, the pastor of one of the three largest churches in America, inspired him to start an inner-city ministry in Los Angeles,...
