‘World’s Strongest Redneck’ to perform at Wana B Park
CARMICHAELS — Wana B Park will be the site on Saturday of a demonstration of super-human strength and side-splitting comedy.
The man known as “the World’s Strongest Redneck,” Steve McGranahan, will be bending a 60-penny nail spike (six inches long and one gauge thick), ripping a deck of cards in half with his teeth, bending a Sear’s crescent wrench, and bending a horseshoe into a heart.
Even stronger than McGranahan’s feats of physical strength, is his testimony.
While still in high school, as a defense mechanism to hide a learning disability, McGranahan became the class clown and discovered he was funny.
As a young man he began to party and got into drugs and alcohol by the time he went to college.
At the age of 36 he had a life-altering experience with the Lord.
He started fasting and sought the Lord with everything he had. That’s when he felt like the Lord was changing him and asked God what he was stirring up inside of him.
One day McGranahan was watching “The 700 Club” as author Bruce Wilkinson was discussing his book “The Prayer of Jabez.”
McGranahan bought the book and read it over and over. He started keeping a journal. Then everything broke loose.
“I always knew I was strong,” McGranahan said, who picked up his first car when he was 15 years old. “I always wanted to be a strong man. At the age of 36, God gave me the desires of my heart.”
Sponsored by the Carmichaels Ministerium, McGranahan, now 44, will be performing routines that are not only appropriate for the whole family, but actually make people feel encouraged, inspired and challenged.
“I take my strength and ability to make people laugh and encourage them to do more with the gifts that they have,” McGranahan explains.
“We all have a unique gift and if we use those gifts to the best of our ability, and use them together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.”
McGranahan has appeared regularly on County Music Television’s “Country Fried Home Videos” and on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”
The event will be held at Wana B Park on Ceylon Road in Carmichaels this Saturday. Beginning at 5 p.m. there will be music and children’s activities, as well as free walking tacos, hot dogs and water, followed by McGranahan’s performance.
For more information about the event, call the Rev. Bruce Judy at 724-966-7123.