Publishers’ note We didn’t intend this to turn out to be a sports issue. It just happened that way. With spring training underway, our minds turn to baseball with high hopes for a better season. Pitcher Ian Kennedy joined the Padres mid-season last year, and it’s always great getting to know our local players whose faith is as important to them as their play on the field. Then we learned about El Cajon resident Josh Gabardi heading to the Red Bull Ice Cross Downhill World Championship in St. Paul, Minn. He, too, uses a sport as a platform to share his faith. For a truly inspiring story, read about Angela Posten in “Fostering Love.” Taken away from her abusive father as a young girl and placed in foster care, she found herself in Juvenile Hall by the age of 14. But Angela would not let her circumstances dictate her life and, now, years later she… well, you’ll just have to read the story to learn how things turned out.
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contents FEATURES
10 Ian Kennedy: Pitching with a Purpose Padres’ player passionate about baseball and his faith
14 Elevated Outlook
Hiker puts failed climb behind him to tackle Mount Kilimanjaro for charity
16 Skating it to the Extreme
San Diego man goes all out with sports and faith
20 Fostering Love
From foster teen to foster parent, a mom redeems her troubled past
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National news
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Books
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Outtakes
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Tunes
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Community news
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20 COLUMNS 6 Dean Nelson | in plain sight 8 Jon Huckins | perspective 30 Mark Larson | on the mark
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32 Michael Foust | purposeful parenting 34 Kimberly Ruby | here’s to good health 35 Janice Thompson | on the money 36 Deron Higgins | inspired living 38 Joanne Brokaw | that’s life!
34 March 2014 | REFRESHED
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