Raymore Rebels Baseball Club

To everyone in the Raymore and surrounding area,

The Raymore Rebels Baseball Club wants to thank all of you for the opportunity to have served our community for the past two years. Our primary purpose was to provide an affordable alternative for kids to play competitive baseball, and we have had lots of great memories doing so.

While some of our teams will be finishing the Spring 2017 season proudly wearing our Rebel colors, our club has chosen to merge and combine our resources with another organization moving forward. Following the Spring 2017 season the Rebels will officially be disbanded. It's been an honor to have served you and the players who were with us, and we thank you for allowing us to play and coach alongside your boys and girls. While we head in new and exciting places, we will never forget what we were able to do together in such a short time as Rebels!

God bless, and enjoy the time you have with your kids in this amazing sport.

Founder and Director,

Joseph Vincent

A great article about the pressure and power struggles of those in leadership, and a few quotes I especially took from it. I substituted "pastor" and "church" and "attendance" with "leader" and "organization" and "membership" to broaden the scope of the author's article, especially as it applies to the baseball club I run:

"As a human receives more power the criticism rises. Because the criticism rises quickly people who support the person in power are held close and those who are critical are kept at arms length.

There is a weight of leadership that is incredibly heavy to bear. Being a [leader] comes with a lot of emotional highs and lows. The highs are incredibly high and addicting. The lows are the valley of the shadow of death.

Before I was a [leader] I only remember a couple of people getting upset with me in my entire life. In the last four years the level of [appreciation] has increased as I became [a leader], but so did the lows. Now, this isn’t a sob story. I love being a [leader]. I’m not asking for anything but your empathy. Empathy for any [leader].

The weight of leadership is never ending.

Whether an [organization] is 100 or 30,000 it comes with power and pressure.

A [leader] oversees an organization that is run mostly by volunteers. There isn’t a product to sell, so the income that comes in is based on whether or not those volunteers make a choice to financially support the [organization].

[Membership] spikes and then decreases often for no specific reason. Staff are hired and then have to be led. Every human is broken so leading is never easy."

http://www.robshep.com/2016/09/13/another-pastor-bites-the-dust/

Another Pastor Bites The Dust – robshep.com Rob Shepherd September 13, 2016 robshep.com A few months ago a prominent pastor was let go from the church he planted. This past Sunday another prominent pastor stepped down. Pete Wilson started an amazing church in Tennessee. He has written multiple books, and has seen God do amazing work. He built...

There is still time to sign up for the July 23rd Scouting Combine through WBC, along with the August 6th club tryouts for all ages!

Visit our website for more information to register for either event.

http://raymorerebels.com/sites/raymorerebels/content/2757/Tryout-Info