Tom Thurmond
In 1997 I was on a powerful men’s team, Hit Men (Honesty, Integrity and Trust), and we were an enrollment machine. One Atlanta winter we had a scheduled joint open house with Team Samurai. It was to be an outdoor meeting under an A-frame pavilion in a public park. We had several guests confirmed for the event and plans to cook hotdogs and burgers on a grill one of the men brought.
The day of the open house there was an ice storm in Atlanta. Most of the guests didn’t show but one man called and said he had given his word and would keep it. He even had a car accident on the way to the meeting, but that didn’t stop him from keeping his word.
When our guest arrived, we all participated in cooking the food and having a meal. It was so cold (for Atlanta) that we built a fire in the grill and huddled around it while we each talked about what we got from doing the Sterling Men’s Weekend. Our guest was impressed, and decided on the spot he would make an unalterable commitment to go to the next Weekend in Vancouver, Canada. He did indeed go and came back to Atlanta on fire.
After that he volunteered to be the transportation and accommodations manager for the Weekend and did so for the next 20 years. He touched hundreds of men’s lives and made a huge splash in the pond with all the men he enrolled and/or helped get to the weekend. That man was Rex Horney, whom many of you knew.
We lost Rex a few years ago, but he is well remembered in Atlanta. I just wanted to let you know how a team of dedicated men, who were committed to enroll other men, changed a lot of lives.
What can your team do?
