New to Power Page: Message by Coach Tony Dungy.  Scroll to read this
powerful presentation he delivered at a recent Athlete's In Action breakfast.  

Welcome to the Power Page!  The purpose of this page to encourage and
strengthen you....to give your life and faith more Power!  It is meant to boost your
morale and to help you "press on" when life gets tough and throws you a curve.  I
hope and pray it will encourage you, deepen your faith,and give you a better
understanding of God and His plan for your life

It will include articles, powerful scripture passages, and links to other websites and
resources.  Please pass along how God has blessed you and answered your
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and wants a personal relationship with you.  He demonstrated this by sending us His
Son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins then raised him from the dead as a
promise of eternal life - He gave it all for you!  Be encouraged today!!  Through
Jesus, God has shown that he has not forgotten about you!

FitTech: A Leap of Faith!
Since its start-up in November of '03, God has truly blessed FitTech.  First He
provided the right people to help an exercise physiologist start a business!  Then He
provided a building (through Ted Roark) to do bike fits and testing. Many of you
perhaps had a bike fit at the little old- very old - red brick (Roark) house in
Brownsburg, IN.  It had beautiful hardwood floors!  God provided -  and continues to
provide customers.  He has since opened many doors along the way.   My recent
move to Carmel Cycling and Fitness is one of those doors God opened!  

This business was - is - a faith walk for me.  God is the CEO and I'm just along for
the ride.  It has not all been a cake-walk, with many challenges along the journey, but
God has honored my trust in Him and has used FitTech to spread the Gospel of His
Son Jesus Christ.  One of the ways I will continue His work is through this Power
Page.  I hope you visit often and leave encouraged and strengthened.

"Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed"  Proverbs 16:3.


NFL: COLTS: SPREADING HIS MESSAGE
noticias.info (International News Agency)

Feb. 4, 2006

By John Oehser - Colts.com

Dungy Makes Super Bowl Stop to Speak at Athletes in Action Breakfast

DETROIT, Mich. - They were there for breakfast, and they were there to
cheer New YorkJets running back Curtis Martin.

And it was Martin who received the Athletes in Action Bart Starr Award
Saturday morning, but the hundreds who gathered in fourth-floor
ballroom at the Marriott Renaissance in Detroit, Mich., on the morning
before Super Bowl XL were clearly touched by the featured speaker.

That speaker was Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy.

Two hours into the breakfast, emcee Brent Jones introduced Dungy, who
was welcomed with a lengthy standing ovation. Dungy thanked the crowd,
shared an anecdote about Martin, then told the crowd he was going to
speak for about 15 minutes.

"It's great to be here," Dungy told the crowd, then adding with a
laugh, "I just wish I wasn't here in this capacity so many times of being just that close
to being in the game and just being an invited speaker.

"My goal is to have our team here one day and have a couple of tables
with all of our guys here. Because we have a special group of young
men, a great group of Christian guys. It'd be wonderful to have them
here so you could see their hearts and what they're all about.

"It hasn't quite happened yet, but we're still hoping one day it
will."

He told them he was going to talk about lessons he had learned from
his three sons. The crowd fell silent. Then Dungy spoke.

And although this was a breakfast - and although at many such events
speakers speak over the clinking of glasses and murmurs from
semi-interested listeners - for most of the 15 minutes the room was
silent except for Dungy's voice.

He spoke of his middle son, Eric, who he said shares his
competitiveness and who is focused on sports "to where it's almost a
problem." He spoke of his youngest son, Jordan, who has a rare
congenital condition which causes him not to feel pain.

"He feels things, but he doesn't get the sensation of pain," Dungy
said.

The lessons learned from Jordan, Tony Dungy said, are many.

"That sounds like it's good at the beginning, but I promise you it's
not," Dungy said. "We've learned a lot about pain in the last five
years we've had Jordan. We've learned some hurts are really necessary
for kids. Pain is necessary for kids to find out the difference
between what's good and what's harmful."

Jordan, Dungy said, loves cookies.

"Cookies are good," Dungy said, "but in Jordan's mind, if they're good
out on the plate, they're even better in the oven. He will go right in
the oven when my wife's not looking, reach in, take the rack out, take
the pan out, burn his hands and eat the cookies and burn his tongue
and never feel it. He doesn't know that's bad for him."

Jordan, Dungy said, "has no fear of anything, so we constantly have to
watch him."

The lesson learned, Dungy said, is simple.

"You get the question all the time, 'Why does the Lord allow pain in
your life? Why do bad things happen to good people? If God is a God of
love, why does he allow these hurtful things to happen?''' Dungy said.
"We've learned
that a lot of times because of that pain, that little temporary pain, you
learn what's harmful. You learn to fear the right things.

"Pain sometimes lets us know we have a condition that needs to be
healed. Pain inside sometimes lets us know that spiritually we're not
quite right and we need to be healed and that God will send that
healing agent right to the spot.

"Sometimes, pain is the only way that will turn us as kids back to the
Father."

Finally, he spoke of James.


James Dungy, Tony Dungy's oldest son, died three days before
Christmas. As he did while delivering James' eulogy in December, Dungy
on Saturday spoke of him eloquently and steadily, speaking of lessons
learned and of the positives taken from experience.

"It was tough, and it was very, very painful, but as painful as it
was, there were some good things that came out of it," Dungy said.

Dungy spoke at the funeral of regretting not hugging James the last
time he saw him, on Thanksgiving of last year.

"I met a guy the next day after the funeral," Dungy said. "He said, 'I
was there. I heard you talking. I took off work today. I called my
son. I told him I was taking him to the movies. We're going to spend
some time and go to dinner.' That was a real, real blessing to me."

Dungy said he has gotten many letters since James' death relaying
similar messages.

"People heard what I said and said, 'Hey, you brought me a little
closer to my son,' or, 'You brought me a little closer to my daughter,''' Dungy
said. "That is a tremendous blessing."

Dungy also said some of James' organs were donated through donors
programs.

"We got a letter back two weeks ago that two people had received his
corneas, and now they can see,'' Dungy said. "That's been a tremendous
blessing."

Dungy also said he received a letter from a girl from the family's
church in Tampa. She had known James for many years, Dungy said. She
went to the funeral because she knew James.

"When I saw what happened at funeral, and your family and the
celebration and how it was handled, that was the first time I realized
there had to be a God," Dungy said the girl wrote. "I accepted Christ
into my life and my life's been different since that day."

Added Dungy, "That was an awesome blessing, so all of those things
kind of made me realize what God's love is all about."

Dungy also said he was asked often how he was able to return to the
Colts so quickly after James' death. James died on December 22, and
Dungy returned to the team one week later. Dungy said the answer was
simple.

"People asked me, 'How did you recover so quickly?"'' Dungy said. "I'm
not totally recovered. I don't know that I ever will be. It's still
very, very painful, but I was able to come back because of something
one of my good Christian friends said to me after the funeral.

"He said, 'You know James accepted Christ into his heart, so you know
he's in heaven, right?' I said, 'Right, I know that.' He said, 'So,
with all you know about heaven, if you had the power to bring him back
now, would you?' When I thought about it, I said, 'No, I wouldn't. I
would not want him back with what I know about heaven.'

"That's what helped me through the grieving process. Because of
Christ's spirit in me, I had that confidence that James is there, at
peace with the Lord, and I have the peace of mind in the midst of
something that's very, very painful.

"That's my prayer today, that everyone in this room would know the
same thing."

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