Congrats to the Smith Family!

Webster Groves High School (my alma mater) recently announced its 2010 class to be inducted into the Statesmen Sports Hall of Fame. The induction banquet will be October 16 and at that banquet, one of the special awards given out will be the Froebel Gaines Family Award. This year’s (very deserving) recipients are the family of my dear friends Mike and Karen Smith.

Mike and Karen have five children who have graduated from WGHS, with numbers six and seven graduating this year and next. The 2010-11 academic year will be the 17th consecutive year that at least one of their children has been a student at WGHS.  Each of those children has been involved with athletics, but more important than that is the Christ-like love that the whole family has shown to countless students over the years who have come to consider the Smiths as their adopted family.

In addition to this, in recent years this love has been extended to the country of Kenya, where Karen has ministered through the missionary efforts of Get the Word Out, Inc., which she founded. To learn about the wonderful work being done there, watch the video below taken from a Kenyan national newscast in 2009.

I am thankful to know them and am blessed to be able to consider them my friends. Congrats to the Smiths!