Former University of Alabama football star Siran Stacy asked the audience at Belcher Bethel Baptist Church this Wednesday a question everyone has pondered at least once.
“Why do certain things happen?” he said. “Why does death happen?”
These are questions Stacy pondered after a drunk driver took the lives of his wife and four children on Nov. 19, 2007. The former running back for the University of Alabama and the Philadelphia Eagles was so devastated by the loss of his family that he briefly considered suicide following their deaths.
“There was a time when death became an option … when death became a friend of mine,” he said. “Satan, the death angel, whatever you want to call it, they spoke to me on a night in November 2007.”
But Stacy chose life instead. Now he’s ministering full time, traveling to churches across the Southeast to share his story of tragedy and triumph to help strengthen others. Stacy visited Belcher Bethel Baptist as part of the church’s “Youth Explosion.”
Stacy told his audience the story of how on a night close to Thanksgiving, he, his wife Ellen, daughters Lequisa, Sidney, Shelley and Ellie and son Bronson were traveling home from a visit to his mother’s house in Geneva.
Read more on this story in the weekend edition of The Tribune avaliable Friday (Oct. 31).
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