Cowboys team chaplain Jonathan Evans on playing in the NFL and pastoring America's Team

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🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Evans is the team chaplain for the Dallas Cowboys and an accomplished speaker, teacher and author. He currently serves on the pastoral staff at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship with his father, Dr. Tony Evans.

Evans played college football at the University of Baylor and spent time in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys under head coach Bill Parcells. After football was over, Evans got his Masters Degree in Christian Leadership from Dallas Theological Seminary His sister Priscilla Shirer is a speaker, author and actor and his brother Anthony is a singer and worship leader.

His latest book, "Your TIME is NOW: Get what God has Given You" is available now.

Today on the podcast, Jonathan shares stories of signing with Dallas, the first time he met coach Bill Parcells, how he's processed grief after the death of his mother, why he wrote his latest book and how he became the team chaplain for the Cowboys.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, our conversation with Jonathan Evans from the Dallas Cowboys.
0:03.8	He's their team chaplain.
0:05.0	It's coming up in just a second, but want to tell you about our friends at Compassion
0:09.6	International.
0:10.7	And because of COVID-19, there's children all around the world that weren't not only living
0:16.0	in poverty, but the issue of food has gone from hunger to starvation because of the pandemic.
0:21.6	And it's magnified these kids and their family's needs and they truly are in crisis.
0:26.7	70,000 kids with compassion were left without a sponsorship because of COVID.
0:33.0	So compassion wasn't going to sit around and just say, sorry, can't do anything about it.
0:37.1	No, what they're doing is they're standing in the gap.
0:40.1	And they're doing something about it.
0:41.6	Along with our pro-athlete friends, Compassion created this Fill the Stadium initiative.
0:47.7	It's an opportunity for you and I to donate and be a part of what compassion is doing to stand in the gap with those 70,000 kids that
0:55.8	otherwise would have been sponsored if it wasn't a pandemic. And so those kids kind of left in
1:00.9	the dust here, compassion's not having it. They said, no, we're going to do something about this.
1:06.0	And we need your help to join us. Fill thestadium.com is the website. Fill thestadium.com. It's a stadium that
1:13.0	cannot remain empty, 70,000 kids, and we are close to reaching that number. We're about 70% of the
1:20.1	way to filling the stadium and making sure that 70,000 kids are fully funded through compassion.
1:26.7	But we still got a lot of work to do, and we need your help. So check out fill thestadium.com to donate, partner with us, and let's make sure that this is a stadium that does not remain empty. Fillthastadium.com. Thank you. Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports
1:52.5	colide.
1:53.6	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
1:56.2	And welcome to the show, guys.
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