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CWF Celebrates 10 years

Saturday night I had the privilege to take part in the Christian Wrestling Federation’s 10 year anniversary show.

It was a great night with some great matches from CWF Alumni as well as the CWF future — including a 12 man Battle Royal.

For those who are new to the blog, I first found out about the CWF only a few months after it began (in May 2000).

And I went to my first CWF show in Georgetown, Texas in the Fall of 2000 after hearing about it from a fellow journalism student, Chris Allman (aka Chris Idol/Angel).

Several years later, I joined up with the CWF and served as the ring announcer and commissioner from 2005-2007.

It was a great time in my life, full of great memories and great relationships that I made while travelling from place to place with the guys — even more so with the late night trips Chris and I made from Belton to Rockwall (and back) that first year.

Blundell
Working the mic at a CWF show in Iowa

So Saturday night was a great time to remember some of those memories and a chance to see the work continue.

Rob (Jesus Freak) asked me to put together a slide show and highlight video to show Saturday night, so here they are in all their glory ::

You can find out more about the CWF through my archives, or visit www.christianwrestling.com (which I still manage). I also chatted with Chris a month or so back for the podcast and he talks about his history with the CWF along the way.

re: Google Earth updates Jos Nigeria


Screen shot of Jos Nigeria
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.

Back in July I reported that Google Earth had updated their satellite images of Jos, Nigeria (where Rob and a group of others from Lakepoint spent two weeks).

I shared the info with Mike Blythe, a missionary there working with the ECWA hospital.

Mike just sent me a link for a killer KMZ file that highlights lots of areas around Jos – including many of the sites that we saw and worked at while we were there.

To view it – be sure you have Google Earth installed and the open the link. It should automatically populate your “My places” with all the sites in Jos.

Big props to Mike! Makes me really want to go back there.

Related ::
Google Earth
the Jos, Nigeria KMZ file
SSL :: Google Earth updates Jos Nigeria
Mike Blythe’s blog
Google Earth :: Jos Nigeria KMZ file
Photos from my 2006 trip to Jos
Photos of the football/soccer stadium mentioned in the KMZ file :: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
CWF photos from Nigeria 2007
CWF :: Christian Wrestling Federation

Tomorrow night

Just an FYI/reminder…

The Christian Wrestling Federation will be live in Rockwall, Texas tomorrow night. The show is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. It’s a free show and you can bet there will be plenty of updates throughout the night about the CWF’s recent trip to Nigeria.

CWF home from Nigeria

Just talked with Rob about the CWF trip to Nigeria. The group returned to Dallas on Friday.
Rob said they did seven shows during their two weeks in Nigeria and they spoke at several school chapels, several churches and did a number of radio and television interviews.
JT sent me a txt on Saturday and said they had an awesome time.
Rob said they had a great time, except for the pretty much complete breakdown of communication the last week they were there.
The Internet Cafe we used daily last year was shut down the last week due to no Internet of phone access.
Rob’s getting together all the photos and video from the trip and we’ll start putting it all together in the next week or so.
Look for it on the CWF website.