Jim and Danise Owings have two sons who play professional baseball, another son who runs a sports training facility and two daughters who lead nonprofit organizations - and Danise says her children's successes are just part of a 30-year family journey.

The five children say they believe that it wasn't just chance that they all have reached their dreams. They attribute their personal accomplishments to their parents, who instilled in them the importance of God and family.

"I think for all of us it's a family journey," said Abi Owings, 28. "We don't live any day without struggles or setbacks, but we have each other. ... It's faith and family and nothing else matters. I learned quickly that's all I've got."

Faith is one thing that all five siblings take seriously, and they all spread their faith and minister in their own way.

Micah Owings, a pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, and Jon Mark Owings, who last season played for the Myrtle Beach Pelicans of the Class A Advanced Carolina League, are lending their names and sports-star status to the Ozone Outreach Breakfast today at Free Chapel in Gainesville. Their brother, Josh Owings, runs Ozone Sports Academy and helps organize the event.

Sister Becca Gunyon runs The Way, a nonprofit counseling organization in Dawson County while sister Abi Owings has founded Always Moving On, an organization that helps teens and women who have been sexually assaulted.

Four of the five children attend Browns Bridge Community Church in Forsyth County and the other attends Lakewood Baptist in Gainesville.

For the past three years the siblings have come together for the Ozone Outreach Breakfast. This year's event will feature Brian Hommel and Michael Barrett sharing their stories about their journey with God. Hommel is the team chaplain for the Arizona Diamondbacks and also played for the Milwaukee Brewers for four years, while Barrett, a native of Atlanta, was a first-round draft pick by the Montreal Expos in 1995 and recently signed with the Toronto Blue Jays.

"We are all involved; we do a lot with Becca and Abi's organization and they are actually the beneficiaries," said Micah, 26, who was a Gainesville High baseball standout. "The proceeds are going to them. We get one time a year to really profess ... that's what we do with the breakfast each year, we try to bring as many people in and hopefully they will respond to Jesus."

Josh said organizing the event is one way to help minster to the community.

"When people come to me I want them to know that if they have the desire to do something, God's given them the ability ... what they choose to do with that is up to them," said Josh, 30. "If they aren't going to work at it, how are they going to be blessed? I think I try and use things that we learned as children.

"The biggest thing about us is there is no pressure. ... We are here to help people get better at doing what they do."

And helping people emotionally is what Becca and Abi have set out to do through counseling.

Originally started to help teens, Becca's faith-based The Way counseling organization now works with people from all different walks of life.

"We have four Christian counselors and now we work with families, kids, and we see people from all backgrounds," said Becca, a 34-year-old mother of four. "We are helping people see themselves through Jesus' eyes.

"When I was younger, in high school, I went to Christian counseling. ... Mine was free because he was the youth pastor, so I thought how neat one day to be able to provide nonprofit, free counseling for people who couldn't pay."

Becca added that all of her family members have helped with The Way in some fashion in the past. And Abi has built on Becca's foundation, too, starting her nonprofit Always Moving On after she was sexually assaulted in 2003.

"It started basically the day that my court date finished," Abi said. "I want to one day have a whole ministry that allows people to tell their story, and they can begin healing and not sweeping it under the rug. It's in the past and I am ready to dream and move on, but there were about three years where every one of my family members got me through."

But with all the successes the family has been fortunate to achieve, there have been road blocks along the way.

For example, Abi's dark day in 2003 or when brother Jon Mark, 23, suffered a life-threatening injury in 2006 when he suffered internal injuries after running into a fence while catching a fly ball.

"I've learned a lot from them (injuries) and where I want to go," he said. "I was bitter at first because every year it was something different. (I was asking) ‘Why is God allowing this to happen to me?' I've tried to take a better attitude."

Jon Mark said it took a while to understand what God was doing in his life, but now he is coming around.

"Last year I started to understand why he let it happen, and it made me a better person," he said. "It made me appreciate stepping on the field every night and playing for him and not taking anything for granted.

"When you are laying there in a hospital bed it's a totally different feeling."

All the Owings siblings agree, though, that is was their parents' help that got them all where they are today.

"We all are different but they gave their last dime for us to do what we get to do," Micah said. "We are fortunate we had the upbringing we did. You see different athletes and ball players everyday; you can't really understand what is going on in their life, but you also don't understand their upbringing.

"I don't see how people get by without a spiritual background. I think it's important to surround yourself with people who are on the same path."

Josh added that his parents didn't care what each child dreamed to do, just as long as they were passionate about something.

"We each do our own thing in our own way because that's how we are passionate about doing it," he said. "Find that thing that you are passionate about and find a way to go out and do it."

The family wasn't perfect, Abi added, but they are still very close because of years of unconditional love.

"That's the coolest thing about this family - no matter how far you fall short, there is always acceptance," she said. "They aren't just our mom and our dad now, they are our best friends."