Ray Marsh

Biography

1977—Ray, originally from Lafayette, IN earned varsity letters in Football and Baseball at Jefferson High School and was a part of the Colt World Series baseball team that won an international championship. Up until that time Ray had enjoyed Christian fellowship as a youth. However, the summer of his senior year in high school, Ray accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior and began a personal relationship with Him.

1978—Ray earned a Baseball / Football grant to attend school and play sports at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, OH. While attending Heidelberg he was introduced to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and later that Summer went to his first FCA National Conference as a huddle leader for middle school and high school athletes.

1979—1983 Because of Ray’s father's failing health, he returned home and completed his education at Purdue University (BS in School of Supervision 1983) where he participated on the Purdue summer baseball team and also on the Crew Team. Staying close to Christ through weekly inter-collegiate FCA meetings with 150 other athletes on campus was a good balance with his participation in leadership in the local church. Ray served as the Youth Director and Worship Leader (both lay positions) in his local church, Linnwood Church of Christ in Lafayette, Indiana. In the middle of his junior year, he joined the staff at Calvary Baptist Church (West Lafayette, IN) as their middle school / high school youth director. He attended Emmanuel School of Religion in Johnson City, Tennessee, and has academic credit hours toward a Masters of Divinity degree.

1984—1987 Ray accepted a position with the national staff of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes working with athletes and coaches from middle school through the professional ranks in Philadelphia. In 1987, he served in Indiana as FCA's Southern Indiana Area Representative.

2004—2008 After a very successful stint in the business world where Ray was a marketing consultant for AT&T, he felt called to re-enter the ministry on an official basis and accepted the position as Sports and Recreation Ministry Director at Mount Pleasant Christian Church (Greenwood, IN).

Currently, Ray is combining all of his life experiences to promote Sports Ministry Resource and is also the Minister of Sports and Recreation at Carmel United Methodist Church in Carmel, Indiana.