Ultimate frisbee helps the fight against AIDS!

Those close to me often playfully ridicule my addiction to Ultimate Frisbee. As a youth pastor I often joked about being more excited telling people about Ultimate than Jesus. However, for two years it was, in a sense, my saving grace. Even today, a run around on the Frisbee field keeps me grounded and clears my head. Well, my faith in the sport seems to have been well founded. I’ve just found this article that shows how LoveLife (a major youth HIV/Aids organisation) wants to use Ultimate as their flagship sport development project:

Johannesburg – 9th July 07 -
Many regard a Frisbee as similar domain to 'beach bat and ball', or the mouth of a Golden retriever, but Lovelife are taking this mere piece of plastic a lot more seriously.
They are training over 6000 youth to play 'Ultimate Frisbee' in 2007 as part of their major sport campaign to combat HIV/AIDS.
Max Pichulik, Development Officer for Ultimate Frisbee in SA says, "This could be a major weapon in HIV/AIDS prevention and the promotion of health to youth in South Africa."

Download the full article here, and keep those discs flying!!
PS. On that note - Jozi Ultimate has started a Sunday game that should be very competitive. Tomorrow at 3 at Sandton Sports Club. I'm looking forward playing with my old teammates.