Inspirational Stories of Basketball and Compassion

Basketball is a marvelous game that teaches life values. For many, it has become the conduit to a purposeful and meaningful life of compassion, dedicating themselves to a cause or lending a hand to people who need support and assistance.

This is a very unique book about basketball. The people whose moving stories are included in this collection learned through basketball that their life’s purpose must be about more than athletics-that as important as teamwork, confidence and physical conditioning are, helping someone who is hurting, giving them strength, love, encouragement and positive support, enabling them to believe in themselves, are far more important. Their inspirational stories show how basketball has enabled them to gain meaning in life by finding the compassion within themselves to lift up people who may be down.

Author Biography

Dr. Noel White grew up in Kentucky where he played high school and college basketball. He had planned to be a basketball coach but felt called to the pastoral ministry. After working two years as a program director for the YMCA in Kettering, Ohio, he earned a Master of Divinity Degree from Wesley Theological Seminary, and then a Doctor of Ministry Degree from Lexington Theological Seminary. He believes that the way to a meaningful life is through being compassionate to others. This book tells the stories of people who in compassion were involved with others, through their contacts in basketball.