";s:4:"text";s:4635:" Former Oakland Raider Napoleon Kaufman now leads The Well Christian Community Church in Livermore, Calif., as senior pastor. Kaufman has traveled internationally to preach, appeared regularly on local television, and has written columns for a newspaper. Raider Nation! He spent two years preaching before he felt compelled to plant his own church, The Well Christian Community, which opened in 2003 in a suburban strip mall. I don’t smoke. Raider Nation.
He is a preacher, not a player, and now that his Sunday sermon is over, a band that includes a guitar and full drum kit has turned the service into a revival. So happy to have him back. He was simply a star athlete at a large college with a powerhouse of a football program.“I always had this sense that things were going right, but I wasn’t right,” he said. You can give online through our We are praying and standing on His truths during this time and remembering God is in control. The reason was Kaufman had found a different calling as a Christian minister.When Napoleon Kaufman walked away from professional football prior to the 2001 season after six years as a running back with the Oakland Raiders, it wasn’t to become a high school football coach. Gateway City Church In September of 2000, Pastors David and Kathy Cannistraci were installed as the Lead Pastors of Evangel.
We followed you from high school to the pros. In the Christian prayer circles at midfield after every NFL game, Bible studies among teammates during the week and the gratitude that players often will express to God.That faith is an uncomfortable subject in the sports pages. He is a man lost in this moment in front of 650 people attending the service.On this spring morning — 10 years to the day after he announced his retirement from the NFL — Kaufman stands at the front of his nondenominational church, The Well Christian Community. Hope y'all like it.