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April 2, Lourdes University, Sylvania, Ohio

Batters Box Spring Training Practice

Spring Training is a brand new opportunity for all Great Plains United Methodists who work with youth – youth leaders, Sunday School teachers, pastors, Confirmation mentors, etc. – to be treated like an MVP and learn from a great coach and add to their playbook.

For our inaugural training we had 65 people from 25 congregations come to one of two locations. Friday, April 17 – Saturday, April 18, we were at Trinity UMC in Salina, Kansas. Saturday, April 18 – Sunday, April 19, we were at First UMC in Kearney, Nebraska. Both events started at 6:30 p.m. on the first day and ended at 3 p.m. on the second day.

Each team received a bundle of “major league” resources for use in your ministry.

ARENA Day Party

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Daisuke Matsuzaka

Spring Training

Spring Training is a brand new opportunity for all Great Plains United Methodists who work with youth – youth leaders, Sunday School teachers, pastors, Confirmation mentors, etc. – to be treated like an MVP and learn from a great coach and add to their playbook.

For our inaugural training we had 65 people from 25 congregations come to one of two locations. Friday, April 17 – Saturday, April 18, we were at Trinity UMC in Salina, Kansas. Saturday, April 18 – Sunday, April 19, we were at First UMC in Kearney, Nebraska. Both events started at 6:30 p.m. on the first day and ended at 3 p.m. on the second day.

Each team received a bundle of “major league” resources for use in your ministry.

ARENA Day Party

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Keeps you from throwing like a girl, no offense to you lady treeclimbers out there. Mwah.

ARENA Day Party

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ARENA Day Party

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Spring Training is a brand new opportunity for all Great Plains United Methodists who work with youth – youth leaders, Sunday School teachers, pastors, Confirmation mentors, etc. – to be treated like an MVP and learn from a great coach and add to their playbook.

For our inaugural training we had 65 people from 25 congregations come to one of two locations. Friday, April 17 – Saturday, April 18, we were at Trinity UMC in Salina, Kansas. Saturday, April 18 – Sunday, April 19, we were at First UMC in Kearney, Nebraska. Both events started at 6:30 p.m. on the first day and ended at 3 p.m. on the second day.

Each team received a bundle of “major league” resources for use in your ministry.

Dunedin FL - Pirates at Blue Jays, Dunedin Stadium

Prince Fielder. Spring training. Lakeland, Fla. Feb. 16, 2013.

ARENA Day Party

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Tigers-Yankees Spring Training

Reid Brignac and Elliot Johnson

Tigers-Yankees Spring Training

Company outing to a Cubs spring training game in their brand new ball park in Mesa, AZ. Chicago Cubs vs. Colorado Rockies.

Spring Training is a brand new opportunity for all Great Plains United Methodists who work with youth – youth leaders, Sunday School teachers, pastors, Confirmation mentors, etc. – to be treated like an MVP and learn from a great coach and add to their playbook.

For our inaugural training we had 65 people from 25 congregations come to one of two locations. Friday, April 17 – Saturday, April 18, we were at Trinity UMC in Salina, Kansas. Saturday, April 18 – Sunday, April 19, we were at First UMC in Kearney, Nebraska. Both events started at 6:30 p.m. on the first day and ended at 3 p.m. on the second day.

Each team received a bundle of “major league” resources for use in your ministry.

Fans watch the Boston Red Sox bat against the Toronto Blue Jays in this spring training game in Dunedin, Florida

Spring training!

Warming up at Osceola County Stadium - home of the Astros.

A Spring Training 2009 visit to Space Coast Stadium in Melbourne, Florida, the Washington Nationals Spring Training Camp, also a regular season facility for the Brevard County Manatees, a Florida State League Single A Affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. v

Arizona Diamondbacks Assitant Team Photographer Jordan Megenhardt photographs outfielder Justin Upton during Photo Day at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale, AZ on February 21, 2011 (Photo by Jon Willey/Arizona Diamondbacks)

Since I've paused the Arkansas trip narrative anyway, here's a picture unrelated to anything of a baseball somebody lost on a frozen pond in the park in Elmhurst where I go sometimes to read. My guess is some dog was sad. Fetch didn't happen.