"Horse Whisperer" not just about training horses

By Michelle Mann
Published: May 08, 2009

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By Michelle Mann
Ledger Staff Writer
When The Horse Whisperer enters the arena Wednesday, May 13, at the Coffee County Farm Center in New Brockton, it won’t be just about training horses.
Presented by the Coffee County Baptist Association, “The Horse Whisperer” begins at 6:30 Wednesday at the New Brockton Farm Center, according to Kaye Clark, CCBA public relations coordinator. “It’s not just about training horses,” Clark explained. “As Paul Daily works with the untrained horse, he explains the steps outlined in the “Round Pen of Life” to his audience, she said. “He points out similarities between man's relationship with God and a horse's relationship with his trainer. “
Local country music band “Half Past Ten” will open the event of family-style entertainment at 6 p.m. and Daily, “The Horse Whisperer,” will enter the arena at 6:30. “He will take an unbroken horse donated by a man from New Brockton and tame him, saddle and ride him in about an hour or so.” Clark said. She said the free event is family oriented and the CCBA is hoping local churches will being their youth groups.
Daily is the founder of Wild Horse Ministries and is the horse trainer. Because of the techniques employed in the training, he is sometimes called a "horse whisperer," said Clark.
Before the ministry started, he worked in the oil fields "for his bread money" and trained horses on his days off, according to the Wild Horse Ministries Web site. “Early in 1997 Paul was in the "round pen" working with a horse when the Lord inspired him to take the lessons the horse was learning in the "round pen" experience and relate it to man's life lessons with Jesus Christ.”
“Thus was born the ministry,” the site states. In May 2000, Paul became a full-time horse trainer for the Lord.
“Daily does not "break horses," he "gentles" them, with words and pats, until they let him bridle, saddle and ride them - all within two hours,” the site continued. “As the horse submits to Paul's ministrations, people submit to God's.”
The Horse Whisperer is being brought to Coffee County by seven churches in the CCBA: Bethany, Calvary, Damascus, Goodman, New Home, New Brockton and Woodland Grove Baptist Churches, Clark said, as part of their evangelism ministry. Door prizes, including the newly-tamed horse, will be awarded, she added.