Greetings from the SoupMan!
Did Jesus play basketball 2,000 years ago? Hmm, I’m pretty
sure there is no mention of Basketball in the Bible. However since Jesus/God
created everything, HE must have created basketball---Right??? And we do know
for sure that Jesus said “Go out into all the world and preach the Good
News/Gospel.”
Soooooooooooooooooo, having said all that, how do you think Jesus
would feel about using basketball to spread that Gospel?
A lot has changed in the last 2,000 years but Jesus’s
command to go out into all the world still stands. So on Friday October 19,
2012 (for the 2nd year in a row) we are going to get creative and we
are going to spread the ‘Good News’ with basketball. Yes, you heard right---we are going to use
basketball to spread the Love of Jesus. Here’s the scoop on how we are going to
do it.
The SoupMobile is partnering with the amazing Dallas
Christian College Men’s Basketball Team. http://www.dallas.edu/. DCC Athletic Director, Sean O’Connor says
that this is a group of young men who are on fire for Christ. They are bold in
their belief in the Gospel and ready to use their God given talents to help
spread the Good News to the less fortunate in our community. On October 19th
at 1:00PM, the entire DCC Basketball team, led by Coach Charles Williams is
going to set up portable hoops on the blacktop parking lot of Williams Chicken
located at the corner of 2nd Ave and Scyene Ave and they are going
to put on an exhibition. Lots of dunks,
long shots, bank shots and maybe even a few trick shots. And there will be plenty of chances for the
homeless to participate and shoot some shots too. We will be giving away free
prizes like bicycles and gift certificates to our homeless family of friends.
Most important we are going to be spreading the ‘Good News.’
We will have local community Pastors on hand ready to provide spiritual
guidance. Christian counselors will be
on standby ready to pray for any of our precious homeless guests. Basketball will be played but Jesus will be
the star. Please pray with us that the
event will be successful and that the love of Jesus will wonderfully bless the
ones that Jesus called the ‘least of these.’
May the Lord Bless & Keep You
& Yours.
p.s. Disregard the rumor that the
SoupMan will be putting on a ‘dunking’ exhibition. I, er, ah, um, well frankly
I don’t want to show up the DCC Basketball Players. Hey, am I a nice guy or
what?
Signed, David Timothy, a.k.a. The SoupMan
