On Sunday, April 28, Mitch Wilburn preached a sermon titled “Reaching New Spiritual Heights” at The Park Church of Christ in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He approached me the week before and asked if we could help him use pole vaulting as the sermon illustration. I agreed that this sounded like an interesting concept for a sermon, so we met over lunch a few days later to iron out the details.
At the end of the week Austin, Brandon, and I moved the standards and front sections of our pit from the back yard to the stage of the auditorium. Sunday morning, Mitch began his sermon and called Brandon to the stage after introducing him by showing his school record vault of 15’7″ where his teammates dog piled him on the pit afterwards. Mitch then called Austin and I to the stage, followed shortly afterward by my father, John Hanoch.
A video excerpt from the sermon can be heard below, or you can click on this link to hear the entire sermon online.