Former NFL Player Miles McPherson Concludes Successful Jamaica Visit

Montego Bay, Jamaica - Christian Newswire -Miles McPherson, a former U.S. professional football player turned minister of the gospel, told a crowd of 45,000 at a Montego Bay festival Saturday night that sexual relations outside of God's plan for marriage only lead to heartache and disease such as HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, which according to the World Health Organization has the second highest prevalence rate in the world, after sub- Saharan Africa.

The San Diego, California- based McPherson, an African American Christian with Jamaican roots, was speaking on the second evening of a two-day Miles Ahead crusade on Dump Up Beach organized in celebration of Jamaica Broilers Group's 50th anniversary - one of three major family-oriented festivals under the Best Dressed 50 Fest banner presented in Mandeville, Montego Bay and Kingston.

"What the media tells you is sex, God designed as oneness," said McPherson, who is pastor of the 10,000-strong Rock Church in San Diego. He said satan has perverted God's plan who created a man and woman to become one within the commitment of marriage. Marriage is supposed to be a picture of the church, with the man loving the woman as Christ loved the church, and the woman honoring the man like the church honors Christ. "If your man loves you like Christ loves the church and lays his life down for you, you will have no problem honoring him," he told the women.

The former defensive back for the San Diego Chargers acknowledged that sometimes sin is fun "for a season." But it doesn't last, and it destroys.

McPherson and his San Diego- based Miles Ahead organization wrapped up nine days of evangelistic and humanitarian outreach in the Montego Bay area with the two, seven-hour-long music and evangelistic events Friday and Saturday nights. With more than 75,000 people in attendance, local church and Miles Ahead volunteers were overwhelmed by the number of "decisions and rededicated lives to Christ" that came forward.