And so all these years later, that ball is kind of represented an anchor for my faith.

God's story?

Your life.

Unfolding short stories.

Mike Signorelli grew up in poverty on the south side of Chicago, where the game of baseball felt like an escape in the

middle of a pretty hard childhood. Amidst this passion for baseball, God used Mike's love for the

White Sox to write a story that became a personal anchor for Mike's faith.

So I've got an incredible story. It's hard to believe, but I know that the

best supernatural stories do suspend your disbelief and God works in some crazy, mysterious ways.

So I was raised in South Chicago area by a single mother and we were in extreme poverty, so life was very hard. As a matter of fact,

we never went on family vacations. Some nights, we actually went to bed hungry, but my mom was a

woman of faith, and she really believed in the things of God, and she studied scripture.

And all these years later, I'm the lead pastor of a seven

location church across some of the darkest cities in the United States. And my mother is actually

doing ministry with me, which is amazing how God can turn a story around. But this story that I'm

going to tell briefly goes all the way back to my childhood. And I think I've only told it publicly a couple of times.

So because I didn't have a father growing up, my mother thought it'd be a good idea to put me in Boy Scouts of America.

And that was kind of her solution was you'll get experience just doing various different things.

And it'll help mentor you in some way and maybe in a way that a

father would. And so of course that was in some ways lonely for me because a lot of the kids had

dads that would be a part of Boy Scouts to help them. And so I was a pretty accomplished Boy Scout.

I got a lot of badges, a lot of achievements. I've always been

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