FCA/Sherman Smith

Sherman Smith, Assistant Head Coach for the Titans

For those of you who may not know, John has taken over the FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) at his high school (Trousdale County High School) This is his first year to be the "Huddle Coach" and he's doing a great job! I think they averaged 6-10 students each week at their meetings last year and this year since John has taken over he usually has at least 40. He actually had one kid accept Christ for the first time a couple months ago, suggested him to go to church with another young man and a couple weeks ago he got baptized! Isn't that awesome?? Sometimes other teachers/people of the community come in and speak, then other times John speaks. This week he spoke about God being our "rock" He told them about how people in other countries use rocks under their fire, so if their fire goes out, the rock will still hold the fire. He compared this to God. How he is always there for us no matter what we may be going through and he'll always be our "rock" Just thought I would brag on my husband a little! I know he's influencing so many of those young kids in a good way each day! It's so good for them to see a "younger" teacher who is setting the right example! I'm very proud of him!

Last night was the annual FCA Benefit Dinner. Mandisa was the special singer. Let me just tell you, God sure blessed her with a set of lungs. And she sings with such ease... she's awesome! I really liked her on American Idol, because she didn't look like your average American Idol, but more importantly because she wasn't afraid to talk about God and she actually sang a Christian song, "Shackles". Of course Simon said he didn't understand it! I don't understand him most of the time! HAHA Hope Hines was also there. He's a man of God too! The coach from Pearl-Cohn gave her testimony, then talked about how she took her basketball team to the same FCA camp that she went to 20 years before. There were a couple students who gave their testimony and talked about their experiences at camp too.

The main speaker for the night was Sherman Smith, Assistant Head Coach/Running Backs Coach for the Tennessee Titans. He was such an awesome speaker, one of those where nothing else could have distracted you! I think after his football coaching days are over he'll end up behind a pulpit somewhere. He talked about how the church has become underacheivers (content with being a Christian in the church, but not being the same outside of the church), how we are uncoachable (even though we have heard what the right thing to do is, we don't always do it), and how we are uncommitted (not giving our all to Christ) His speech was more of a gut check i would say, really made you think about what you are doing and what more you could be doing. Anyways, i just wanted everyone to know what a man of God this Titans coach is and I'm sure he has a profound influence on the players!