Gari Meacham on a baseball life with her husband Bobby and serving Christ with Water Mission in Uganda
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Gari Meacham is an author, speaker, baseball wife and nonprofit CEO who has written multiple books and co-hosts the "Gutsy Faith" podcast. Gari's husband Bobby Meacham is a coach in the Colorado Rockies orgranization and is a former professional baseball player who played six seasons with the New York Yankees in the 1980's.
Today on the podcast, Gari tells stories of growing up in pro baseball, trusting in God amidst uncertainity and why she wanted to partner with Water Mission to help bring clean water to people in Uganda.
You can learn more about the great work Water Mission is doing and sow into their ministry by clicking on their website -- http://WaterMission.org
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, today's episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast is presented by Water Mission, a nonprofit |
| 0:05.1 | Christian engineering ministry that provides clean, safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions |
| 0:11.8 | to developing countries and disaster areas. They do such good work. You can learn more at |
| 0:17.7 | watermission.org to get involved and to donate today. |
| 0:22.2 | Watermission.org. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome into the Sports Spectrum podcast, where we bring Jesus into the sports conversation. |
| 0:39.1 | Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
| 0:42.7 | And welcome everyone to the show. I am Jason. This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. Sports |
| 0:48.1 | Spectrum's been around since 1985, and our mission, our whole idea of what we're about continues to be the same, to bring |
| 0:56.9 | Jesus and keep Jesus in the sports conversation. You can find us at our website, |
| 1:02.2 | sportspectrum.com. That is the best place to go for all of our content, articles, |
| 1:07.6 | devotionals, podcasts. You can subscribe to our Sports Spectrum magazine. It's all available |
| 1:12.6 | right there at the website, sportspectrum.com. Now, today on the show, we welcome Gary Meacham to |
| 1:19.7 | Sports Spectrum. Gary has been a baseball lifer for more than 40 years. She and her husband, |
| 1:26.7 | Bobby Meacham, have been in pro baseball. |
| 1:29.2 | Her husband was originally a first round draft pick by the St. Louis Cardinals and played in the major leagues for many years with the New York Yankees and then coached in the big leagues for many years in different systems, minor leagues and major leagues with the Marlins, the Padres, the |
| 1:44.5 | Yankees, the Astros, the Phillies, and now the Colorado Rockies. But what's really cool about Gary |
| 1:51.2 | is her husband Bobby's a baseball player and a lot of people know him, but she's carved out a little |
| 1:56.1 | bit of a platform for herself as well with just a heart for ministry, for serving, and for loving others. |
| 2:02.9 | She's written multiple books. She's co-host of a podcast called Gutsy Faith. She does a great |
| 2:08.7 | job with her ministry called The Vine. She's a non-profit CEO, an author, a speaker. |
| 2:14.6 | Gary Meacham is also a voice that needs to be heard. And I'm glad that she's here |
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