That’s because the team doesn’t just have coaches and players in the locker room. The Alabama school, located in the Mobile-area community of Eight Mile, also has Pastor Wesley Davis in there. Thanks to his efforts and God’s grace, over 60 players on the squad have been baptized, and more are being led to the Lord.
Davis, the senior pastor at Nazaree Full Gospel Church in Mobile, is there as part of the congregation’s ministry to reach out to kids at risk, according to WPMI-TV.
“All you have to do is take the time and say, ‘How can we help?’ It doesn’t have to be on the grand scale. It can be something as small as showing up, walking in the hallway. It is a village that raises our kids,” he said.
Before practice on Thursday, Davis gave Blount players a biblical pep talk about being underdogs — which the 2-4 Leopards certainly were against the undefeated Theodore Bobcats. READ MORE
