CEE Story From The Mission Field
CEE Super Bowl Team
January 28, 2004
Super Bowl Sunday consumes American football fans as they await the showdown that will determine who is the World Champion. In honor of this great celebration of our national pastime, we in CEE are honoring three of our own football champions. They may not get national attention—yet, but they’ve gotten their fair share—not only for being great athletes, but for playing the game of life with integrity, flexibility and obedience to God.
Last fall Stephen Edworthy entered his ninth new school—this time as a junior at Godwin High School in Richmond, Virginia. A couple of weeks prior to orientation, he began practicing with the varsity football team. His team went all the way to the play-offs this season, and Stephen was one of the stars! He’s also a star in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as a mentor/tutor at a local middle school and as a Bible Study leader both on his campus and a nearby middle school. He has team-taught the senior boys class at Sunday School and preached his first sermon on December 14th!
Joel Bell came to Croatia with his family in 1994. His tenth grade year, his family went stateside in South Carolina where Joel attended Spartanburg High School (SHS) and was on the football team. While his family returned to Croatia, Joel stayed in South Carolina and continued to excel in sports. This year, at 6’7” and 260 pounds, it isn’t surprising that he was named All Region Right Tackle among the “Big Sixteen” schools in South Carolina, and he has accepted a football scholarship to attend Furman University for the fall of 2004. He is very involved in his church through Sunday activities as well as choir, a discipleship group, and mission trips.
Jonathan Stockwell did most of his growing up in Ukraine. In the summer of 2002, he went to live with friends of the family in Georgia. Jonathan decided to play football and was elected as one of the four team captains that led the team to the playoffs for the first time in about ten years. The team became very involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and Jonathan was elected one of the officers. This year fourteen of the players received Christ as a result of personal witnessing and a youth crusade at the Blackshear Baptist Church. Jonathan has made straight A’s in school, is a member of Beta Club and National Honor Society, won the Science Award for his school, was selected for the Optimist Award, and has been accepted into the United States Military Academy at West Point. He also goes every Friday to a local elementary school to help with three Ukrainian immigrant children.
Stephen, Joel, and Jonathan are only a few examples of what God is doing in CEE. He is raising up a Super Bowl team for the next generation. Way to go, guys! We’re proud of you!
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