I will write more in a future post about all the things we came to Grace to be a part of and for Kenny to join in leading, but one of the things was to help start a football program from scratch. GCA is only a few years old, and they add a grade each year, so this year the school goes through 9th grade, next year 10th, etc. This group of young men are pretty much 7th-9th graders, some who have played football before, but more who have never been on a team. Grace is an absolutely beautiful campus from the inside out, but, needless to say, there's no football field! The practice field? An open pasture back behind the barn next to the river. The locker room? A pretty cool barn next to the field. These are some pictures of the first practice or two this summer. Starting from scratch is a lot of work for everyone involved from coaches, to players, even to parents, but it can be pretty exciting, too...especially when you know that you're not really just building a football team from scratch...you're building young men. And I know something these young men don't yet. They will never be the same once they've had Coach Dallas in their lives for the next 4- 6 years. I don't know what all of these young fellas will grow up to be and do in this world, but I do know that the Lord has brought Kenny Dallas here to be one piece in the puzzle of adding into the men they will become for the sake of the kingdom. I'm sure that's not what everyone sees when they look at these pictures of a little middle school football team or see these guys out on the field tackling and hitting, but I definitely do. I've witnessed it too many times over the years, with dozens and dozens of young men, most of them now grown, working jobs, married, and even with children of their own.
So...here we go, Grace...let's do this thing...starting from scratch.
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