Church partnerships and SALVATION!

Thanks be to the Lord for a great day at the Strength & Conditioning Camp in Council Bluffs at the Refuge Church. We had 12 students representing 6 different schools in Iowa and Nebraska. Two coaches (one local) did an excellent job with the physical portion of the camp. A local university student delivered a great power point message and FCA staff and pastor at Refuge Church, Rich Riche, closed the camp with an invite to the students to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior and students responded! 10 athletes Bible were distributed and 2 Coaches Bibles.

The two coaches attended church at Refuge on Sunday morning. The local coach attended a Huddle for the first time the following Tuesday morning! Praise be to God!

Equipping athletes

An FCA staff member went to a college Huddle to share about how Doing Sports God's Way motivation has impacted his coaching journey. His talk hit home with many of the athletes, leading to great discussions and questions. The next day, two of the pitchers who were at the Huddle got to pitch against another school. They talked about how that was the most relaxed they've ever felt on the mound, and how they were really able to focus on just playing for an audience of One, and how that freed them to just pitch and have fun! And they both pitched great scoreless baseball, a great testimony to what God can do, when we play/live free in Him!

"And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others also" (2 Timothy 2:2).

Discipleship at work

A local college hockey player recently received a call from a girl he went to high school with in another state. She has two brothers on the high school hockey team there, and she wants the athlete to lead a hockey team bible study over Zoom with her brothers and their team. He's excited for the opportunity to witness to high school hockey players.

"How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written,  “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”' (Romans 10:14-15).