Man shares life-changing moments at prayer breakfast
Lynne Lynch/Columbia Basin Herald<br> Jamie Ebbie visits with Judy Molitor at the Grant County Mayor's Prayer Breakfast. Ebbie recently served with a local medical team in Nigeria as an agriculture and repair man. He is wearing a standard Nigerian Sunday suit.
MOSES LAKE — Christian California businessman Mark Bundy shared two crucial lessons in his life at the Grant County Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast Wednesday.
Before about 135 people, Bundy talked about how he was too focused on his love of sports instead of Jesus Christ and how short life is.
His over-attention to sports falls under the love of idols.
Idols can come in many forms and can include a large focus on areas such as working out, titles or money.
Certain events in Bundy’s life showed him that God was trying to get this attention.
He also spoke of suffering from sinus infections happening around the time he enjoyed riding his motorcycle up and down the coast.
The infections were apparently connected to a more serious problem, a tumor that ended up to be benign.
Even so, the event was significant to Bundy as it was an example of the briefness of life.
“Life can come at you quick and death can come at you just as quickly,” he said. “You just never known when it’s going to be your time.”
When he was 40, he broke his arm while snowboarding. Until then, broken bones never troubled him before.
But he had a 40-year-old body and a 25-year-old mind-set, he realized.
Inadvertently, he didn’t allow his arm to heal. When he was told by a therapist he was allowed in the water, the therapist meant baths and showers.
Bundy took that to mean he could go surfing, so he went with his 11-year-old son.
When surfing, he rotated his arm and it was broken. As a result, a titanium rod was surgically placed through his shoulder into his elbow.
Other accidents happened that year during different sporting excursions.
He realized God was trying to get his attention.
Then two years later, Bundy was at the beach with his son and warned him to be careful of the rocks.
After lecturing his son about safety, Bundy’s feet went out from under him and his fell.
At that point, he surrendered to the Lord and vowed to get his priorities in line.
Participants in the prayer breakfast included: P.J. De Benedetti, of the Moses Lake School District, Moses Lake Mayor Ron Covey, Rev. Jon Bartlett, of Light & Life Fellowship, Moses Lake Police Department Honor Guard, Moses Lake City Manager Joseph Gavinski, soloist Carlos Hernandez, pianist Harriet West, soloist Deborah Roeber, Grant County Commissioner Cindy Carter, Ephrata City Manager Wes Crago, Moses Lake School District Superintendent Steve Chestnut, former Sen. Harold Hochstatter, R-Moses Lake, Rep. Judy Warnick, R-Moses Lake, and Rev. Ed Burns of Journey Church.