Jedai of Christianity

I met Max while I was a student at Florida Institute of Technology (Fall of 1974). At that time there was Max and Dawn and Marie, Mary Jo, and Martha. You and Heidi were still a twinkle in your parent's eyes...or as they say in the South, "You were out picking blackberries". There was a note put in my mailbox when I was a freshman inviting me to a Bible Study. When I went I met Jim Mills, Charlie Greenwell, Ralph Doyle, Dave Olsen, and other upper classmen who were involved with the Navigators. I had never heard of a Navigator. In time I began to view Navigators as the Jedai of Christianity. Bob Newman and Jim Cuneen were faculty at F.I.T. and invested a lot of time in me and later students like Tex Landis, Diane Hickey, Tony Timbol, Dave Meurer, Herman Neufeld, and others. Max had responsibility for both the F.I.T. campus and Patrick Air Force Base. He brought with him from a past AFB Terry Holste, Chuck Barber, Martin Harper, Larry Bowman, and others. If you have met any of these folks, then you know what a blessing I had (these are things you don't fully appreciate at the time). Max blessed all of them. Speaking personally, I can say he treated me like I was special...welcome at Bible studies and conferences and Holiday meals at his home. I learned a lot from him not just from his counsel but also observing his life...a life spent honoring and obeying our Lord.

Ronald D