John Nelson has been coaching the basketball camps for at least three years at two towns in the county of Webster.
A Light at the End of the Tunnel
"I got into the song (about a mother and a father), and she climbs under the table and starts crying. And we went under there and asked what was the matter. She says she doesn't have a mommy. She doesn't have a daddy. And she's been in some foster home situations, where she's been abused. But there was light at the end of her tunnel because she was excited about going into a new foster home. She didn't come to our (basketball) camp the first day, but she did come the second day. She started smiling the whole day, and I took them out in little shifts onto the playground for a while. And I happened to get onto one of the swings, where she was swinging. And she was singing religious songs to all the other girls, so she's come a long way from not wanting anybody to sing at all to sing Bible songs to the kids. Very special." She had three or four siblings who were adopted together to keep the family united.
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