Detroit Tigers Kerry Carpenter on making his MLB debut, giving his life to Christ and finding peace
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Kerry Carpenter is an outfielder and designated hitter with the Detroit Tigers. He was selected in the 19th round of the 2019 MLB Amateur Draft by Detroit and made his MLB debut on August 10, 2022.
In 98 minor league games in 2022, he hit .313 with 30 home runs and was named Eastern League (AA) Player of the Month in May. A few months later he was recalled to the big league club and in 31 games with the Tigers, he hit .252 with 6 home runs.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Kerry Carpenter about his 2022 season, getting called up to the big leagues, giving his life to Christ after his dad's death and finding a true identity in Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this is Jason. Back in December of 2022, I was invited to go down to the Dominican Republic. |
| 0:07.9 | First time I'd ever been out of the country, really, used my passport and everything, and went with Compassion International to see what their program is like. |
| 0:18.2 | And we went into the villages for a couple days and saw Compassion |
| 0:23.3 | International's work at hand. And I've got to tell you, I've never seen poverty the way I saw |
| 0:28.5 | poverty in the Dominican Republic. But I've also never seen hope and joy and gratitude with the kids, with the moms in these programs that compassion provides. |
| 0:42.4 | Compassion right now has a couple opportunities that you can be a part of, including sponsoring |
| 0:47.3 | a child, which I was so fortunate and blessed to be able to do when I was down in the DR. |
| 0:53.2 | I sponsored Samuel, a little six-year-old boy, |
| 0:55.9 | and I got to meet him and hang out with my sponsored child. |
| 0:59.7 | It was incredible. |
| 1:00.8 | It was awesome. |
| 1:02.1 | But I also saw a program that Compassion is doing right now |
| 1:05.8 | called Fight for the First with these moms |
| 1:09.2 | who have young kids, babies really, who that first year of life |
| 1:14.3 | is so critical and the resources aren't necessarily there for most kids, especially to these |
| 1:20.5 | moms who are teenagers and young women having babies. That first year is so critical. And so |
| 1:27.0 | compassionate said, you know what? We're going to |
| 1:28.6 | be a part of these survival programs and fight for the first year of these babies lives. So there's |
| 1:34.6 | opportunities to sew into that part of compassion as well. But all I can tell you is I saw it firsthand. |
| 1:41.3 | I've been talking about him for five years. I saw it firsthand. And Compassion |
| 1:46.7 | International is the real deal. I promise you, when you're sowing into their ministry, it is |
| 1:52.0 | making a gigantic difference in the lives of the people that are being impacted. So please consider |
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