LaMorris Crawford - Overcoming the Coronavirus
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Episode 520
LaMorris Crawford is the team chaplain of the Cincinnati Bengals. Born on the south side of Chicago, Crawford was brought into a life of poverty, gangs, drugs and violence. His mother gave birth to him at the age of 16 and was shot to death at the age of 17. LaMorris’ Dad was nowhere to be found and to this day, he’s never met his own father.
Amazingly, LaMorris escaped his tough upbringing and was able to become the first person in his family to graduate from college.
Today, Crawford, along with his wife Megan have four beautiful children, and they serve as the team chaplains for the Cincinnati Bengals. He has a passion for preaching, communicating clearly and effectively God’s word by sharing with others how the Lord can also do an incredible work in their lives.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to LaMorris about trusting in God after being diagnosed with Covid-19, how he's ministering to his players during this pandemic and what he wants everyone to know about the healing power of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey, guys, welcome to the podcast. I am Jason Romano. Today, |
| 0:23.2 | we are presented by Water Mission, a non-profit Christian engineering ministry fighting the |
| 0:28.5 | global water crisis with safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions in developing countries |
| 0:34.6 | and disaster areas. Learn more about the great work Water Mission is doing by going to their website, |
| 0:41.0 | watermission.org. |
| 0:44.0 | We're also presented by Compassion International, the most trusted child development ministry in the world. |
| 0:49.9 | This is the time to get involved with what Compassion is doing, helping to release children from poverty. |
| 0:56.1 | Check out the website, compassion.com slash team up and team up with compassion to help sponsor a child today. |
| 1:05.2 | Really excited to welcome Lamorous Crawford, Cincinnati Bengals, team chaplain today, two sports spectrum. |
| 1:11.2 | He was actually on episode number 106 a couple years ago and told his story then of survival, |
| 1:16.9 | growing up in poverty and violence. |
| 1:18.9 | When he was 10 months old, his mother shot to death at the young age of 17. |
| 1:23.5 | To this day, he still has no idea who his dad is. |
| 1:26.2 | So he's been through a lot. |
| 1:27.9 | And I highly recommend you go back and listen to episode 106 to hear his journey and story. |
| 1:32.8 | His journey to Jesus, a great, great testimony that he shared then. |
| 1:37.8 | But today, we focus on a little bit different testimony. |
| 1:41.7 | It's coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic pandemic quarantine story time, if you will, with |
| 1:48.5 | Lamorris. This guy was an early contractor of the coronavirus back in March. And it wasn't one of |
| 1:56.2 | those where he tested positive but didn't show any symptoms. He showed a lot of symptoms to the point where he thought he was going to die. |
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