Jon Ackerman - Sports Spectrum Managing Editor

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Episode 490

Jon Ackerman is the managing editor for Sports Spectrum, in charge of the organization’s magazine and website. He joined the team in 2017 after more than 14 years in sports media. He covered six Olympics for NBCOlympics.com, and has also worked as a writer and editor for NBC Sports, Universal Sports, Back9Network and more.

After giving his life to the Lord at age 25 in a small church in Stamford, Connecticut, Ackerman saw God work in his career and life in ways that only He can. And it prepared him and his wife, Shannon, for trials that only God could help them endure.

After having a healthy baby girl, the Ackermans became pregnant again nearly a year and a half later. But at a 13-week ultrasound appointment, they were told, “Your baby is incompatible with life.” Though they couldn’t completely comprehend the implications of that statement at the time, their world was rocked. In March 2016, they met their son and after a few breaths on his mother’s chest, he went to be with the Lord. The couple became pregnant again soon thereafter, but were given the same diagnosis at the 13-week ultrasound. They met their second son in January 2017. More or their boys’ story is told here.

Jon and Shannon were able to bring home a second healthy child in May 2018, through the help of in vitro fertilization (IVF). However, a second child through IVF, a baby girl, was lost due to miscarriage in June 2019.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jon about working in sports ministry, giving his life to the Lord, and the story of how he and his wife clung to God during the trials of losing two children at birth and another to miscarriage.

* Interview recorded prior to coronavirus outbreak.

For more stories of sports and faith, check out our website http://SportsSpectrum.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.4	Hey, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum today. I am Jason Romano. Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum today.
0:22.6	I am Jason Romano.
0:23.6	We got a really powerful story to tell today on the show with a friend of mine and my colleague here at Sports Spectrum, John Ackerman.
0:31.6	But before we get to our conversation with John, I want to tell you about our sponsors today, Water Mission.
0:36.6	We love Water Mission. We love
0:37.7	Water Mission, what they stand for, what they are about. And listen, what they do, they're a non-profit
0:44.6	Christian engineering ministry that fights the global water crisis with safe water, sanitation, and
0:51.2	hygiene solutions in developing countries and disaster areas. Check them out at
0:56.6	watermission.org and I'll tell you a little bit more about them coming up in just a moment.
1:02.0	Also want to tell you about Compassion International, the most trusted child development ministry
1:06.4	in the world. Check them out at Compassion.com slash sports spectrum to understand what they are all
1:13.7	about and to help release a child from poverty. Compassion.com slash sports spectrum. On the show today,
1:21.7	we feature a conversation that I had with a buddy of mine, a colleague of mine, and actually a sports
1:29.4	spectrum employee. His name is John Ackerman. He's our managing editor here at Sports
1:34.6	Spectrum. And John and I have gotten to know each other very well over the past few years.
1:39.7	And obviously we work closely together. Him and I are, in essence, the two that will travel to Super Bowls and
1:47.0	Final Fours and really gathering content and doing what we do here at Sports Spectrum as far as
1:53.4	interviews and telling these stories. John and I are the two guys that do that primarily.
1:59.2	John is in charge of our magazine and really gets that magazine
2:03.3	going. He's the one that creates the stories and assigns the articles to write. And John's the best.
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