Women's Football and Easter Eggs!

This past Saturday we had a really awesome turn out for our annual Easter Egg hunt. This year we were given the opportunity to work with the Clarksville Fox, which is a new semi-pro women's football team that is based here in Clarksville. It never ceases to amaze me how God brings ministry opportunities that I would have never expected or even dreamed of. One of the ladies at the church is playing on this team and her husband is one of the coaches, they approached me about being the chaplain of the team and our church actually being one of the team sponsors. Well to make a long story short I am now the chaplain of this wonderful football team, and I am already having chances to share the gospel on a regular basis.

The egg hunt was the first way that I got to share in a mass setting. When we decided to team up with them for the Easter Egg hunt it was at the cost of cancelling the one that we always have at the church, however we felt that this was the way the Lord was leading. Always our Easter Egg hunt at church was used as a platform to share the Gospel with kids who would not get a chance to hear it any other way. When Rob Brown, the owner and GM of the team, offered to let me speak at the hunt the Fox was putting on I just couldn't pass it up. So we cancelled ours, combined with them, and prayed that God would bring the people. Well I will let you judge if he brought the people.

All told we estimate that there were between 500 - 1000 people attending (probably around 750 to be more accurate.) The hunt was listed in the paper as the number one thing to do in Clarksville TN for the Saturday before Easter. The best part is I got to give a clear cut Gospel presentation to all in attendance. It is really true that God opens doors that can not be shut, and shuts doors that can not be open. We just have to rest in knowing that what he is doing is best.

By the way - we usually have about 50 kids at the church when we do our hunt there.