BETHANY – Prayer brought Jeff Jantz to Bethany.
Growing up in eastern Colorado half a century ago, Jantz was quite the basketball prospect. Six-foot-7, great shooter, lots of hops. More than 250 colleges contacted Jantz; many of them NCAA Division I. But Jantz ended up at Bethany Nazarene College, which we now know as Southern Nazarene University.
“My mother probably prayed me into that school,” Jantz said. “My family was a Christian family, and my mother knew if I went off to a big university somewhere, I’d probably get lost in the shuffle.”
Jantz didn’t get lost in Bethany.