by Logan Gruber
operations@thenewsleaders.com
The Sartell High School football field brought more than 400 youth and adults from across the area together on Oct. 7.
Fields of Faith, an event sponsored by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, is held at sports fields nationwide during the month of October. This year’s main speaker in Sartell was one-man volleyball team Rick Rassier who has won more than 8,000 games in a row.
At Fields of Faith, local students share their faith and are challenged by speakers. While people from across the area attended the event, Sartell students and teachers participated in leading the event. Talon and Quentin Sigurdson, Sartell Middle School students, performed the readings; Abby Stars, another middle-school student, led the opening prayer; and coach and Sartell High School teacher Nick Koubsky led the ending prayer.
The speaker, Rassier, is well known for sharing his faith and drug-free message to students all over the region. He works with more than 200 high-school and collegiate-athletic teams from all over the region each year and challenged those in attendance to take ownership of their faith.
Rassier told a story from his childhood of when a former coach spoke about most people never getting any closer than about 18 inches from Heaven, 18 inches being the approximate distance between a person’s head and heart. Rassier said many people in our society know what has been said of Jesus, have heard the stories at Bible school, church or from their parents, even might know a lot about the Bible or feel as if they need to be good to get to Heaven, but they have never truly accepted the salvation offered.
The larger message organizers wanted to share was that everyone has a unique story to tell and God wants to be a part of it.
For more information about the Sartell Fellowship of Christian Athletes, visit www.sartellfca.org or search for Sartell FCA on Facebook.
About 400 high-school and middle-school students, parents and youth ministers gathered together on the football field Oct. 7 in Sartell for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes’ Fields of Faith night. Students led the opening prayer. Music, Bible readings, testimonials and team-building games followed. Rick Rassier, the “one-man volleyball team,” received a rousing welcome as he took the microphone. Rassier challenged everyone to match the effort they put into their faith with the energy they apply to improving their athletic abilities. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes hosts weekly middle-school “huddles” in the Sartell Middle School gymnasium from 7:30-8 a.m. and monthly high-school huddles at various locations, usually on the third Sunday of every month from 3:30-5 p.m. The next high-school huddle will be Sunday, Oct. 25 at Pine Meadow Elementary School’s fields. The huddles, which include games, snacks and a Bible message, are open to both athletes and non-athletes.
