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WTAMU Athletic Chaplain Ministry Report

Wow! I can’t believe I am about the finish my second year as WT’s Character Coach. The spring semester is going great. God has done some awesome things so far. Here are some updates from our spring semester down at WT:

· As a follow up to my Character Class from last fall, I have begun meeting with several football players for a weekly luncheon and discipleship time. It’s been interesting have cafeteria food again. It has been very rewarding to see these young men grow in the Lord. The future is bright for WT.

· I was also able to share at a couple of pre-game chapels with the Lady Buffs basketball team this spring.

· Our Coaches Devotional and prayer time continues to be a great encouragement to me as well as to several coaches. I host two separate prayer times each week. We have between six to eight coaches participate each week.

· Our Wednesday night Huddle meetings are going great! We are having more athletes attend than we have had in several years. We are winding down our spring semester. I can’t believe there is only 1 month of classes left. Many athletes have shared their personal testimony this spring.

· Our spring college retreat—College Extreme—is set for April 24-26. We will drive 8 hours to T-Bar-M Lake Travis. It is an incredible weekend for over 200 college students from all across Texas.

· I need 20—$100 sponsors to scholarship our athletes to attend this college retreat. Please let me know ASAP if you would be interested or know some other WT supporters that would. This money will be doubled with our National FCA Matching Grant.

· MATCHING NATIONAL GRANT: Our national FCA office has committed to give me/my position a $15,000 grant. I have until June 1 to raise or secure commitments in the amount of $15,000 in new money. This also includes new monthly Home Team Commitments. If I can do this, national will give me $15,000 for my chaplain/character coach position. So every dollar I raise over the next 2 months will be doubled. PTL! Will you prayerfully consider helping me reach this goal?

· We are also planning a cookout on April 19. This will be a one night “mini-college retreat” for those athletes that cannot make the college retreat. We will have some great music and an encouraging message.

· Please pray for our camping season this summer as well.

Without your support and prayers I wouldn’t be able to serve our Lord in this capacity. So thank you for your willingness to step up and help enhance this ministry to students and coaches.

Panhandle FCA Newsletter

AMAZING first 15 MONTHS

While God continues to bless the FCA ministry, He has really blessed me, personally, during my first year of full-time FCA ministry! I didn’t really know what to expect! All I knew about FCA is what I’d seen Pat Ford do for the past ten years. If I had an expectation, it was greatly exceeded by what I’ve seen God do these past 15 months!

Last fall I just tried to do what an FCA staff person is supposed to do: visit coaches; train huddle leaders; attend huddle meetings when asked; minister to our area donors/board, and conduct the ministry events that we always have. We weren’t quite in sync with the new school calendar, but we pressed on. We started a new monthly Coaches Breakfast fellowship for all local coaches. Our annual FCA Game Day rally at WTAMU’s homecoming was the best, up to that point, that we’d ever had with around 550 students in attendance and over 100 committing their lives to Christ! The annual FCA Fields of Faith events were held at Randall HS, River Road HS and Canadian with over 300 students in attendance and many who made salvation decisions! It was a great fall.

In the spring we had a great new huddle “kick-off” hamburger cook in Stratford; a spring Game Day rally with the Amarillo Dusters with around 300 students in attendance, and the largest crowd (700) we’ve ever had at our annual FCA Victory Banquet to hear an encouraging message from Coach Don Carthel!

This past summer saw 60 students attend FCA camps in Lake Travis, Abilene and Waco. Several of these made first-time professions of faith for Christ! Praise the Lord for what He was able to do in the lives of these students and college aged FCA staff! Pat Ford and I had the privilege of being on staff at Abilene Leadership camp with 400 of finest Christian student huddle leaders in the nation! We also had a local coach attend FCA Coaches Camp in Kerrville. FCA had a significant presence at the state-wide THSCA Coaches School in San Antonio where almost 13,000 coaches were in attendance. Baylor Coach Art Briles spoke to over 400 coaches in attendance at the annual FCA Coaches School breakfast! Also, FCA supplied many daily devotions at summer camps conducted by First Baptist-Amarillo, Paramount Baptist and the Cowboy Church! Our annual FCA Golf Tournament had 75 players from around the area enjoy a day of fun and fellowship at La Paloma GC in August!

This fall has been even more amazing with 7 new huddle starts and around 30 new huddle coaches! Our Game Day rally at WTAMU’s homecoming saw around 750 students show up to hear evangelist Jon Randle’s challenge to make Christ the center of their lives! At least 112 students accepted/recommitted their lives to Christ. Fields of Faith events were held at Bushland, Canyon, Canadian Dalhart and Boys Ranch with almost 600 students in attendance and almost 200 decisions for Christ! We saw another great new huddle “kick-off” hot dog cook in Spearman. Golf teams from five area churches helped raise almost $17,000 in a new fund raising event we call the Church Cup!

Our WTAMU FCA huddle continues to supply us with young men and women who are bold in their faith and committed to sharing the gospel to individuals and area huddles. We are thankful for Pat Ford and his ministry at WTAMU!

Again, we praise the Lord for all that He is doing in our local, and national, ministry and we give Him all the honor and glory!

Have a very blessed Christmas season!

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