Sports Evangelism: Stop Trying to Score. Start Building Trust--Heather Reddy
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:23.6 | What does it look like to just relationally love people? |
| 0:27.3 | Like, I think that's like at the heart of it. |
| 0:28.9 | It's just, it's like, are we able to like pull ourselves out of what just kind of our |
| 0:34.4 | agendas, our busy life, and see the people God is put in front of us |
| 0:38.1 | and be intentional to love them. And inviting them into your home is a way to love them. |
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| 1:06.5 | All right, I'm a little excited today. |
| 1:10.0 | We're talking about football. |
| 1:47.5 | Oh, is it your kind of football? Maybe not. I don't think they spell it the same, do they? Do they? Heather Reddy is with us. It spelled the same? It spelled the same? It spelled the same. I thought it was like a F-U-T, VOL. I mean, in Spanish, yes. There you go you go. This is a good beginning. This is how much I know about soccer world. I'm done. You guys go talk about this. No, this is good because you know everything about the whole sports world. Heather Reddy is with us today, but she does know a lot about it. You do. I do. So tell us what you do, because you do something in the sports world, sort of like we did. |
| 2:06.2 | Yes. And still do. We still need a Bible study for the Lions. Isn't that crazy? Not officially their chaplain anymore, but since they started winning, we came back. You know, sort of fun. My husband would be happy to know that. Yes. So I work with athletes in action, and part of my role is I do chaplaincy work. |
| 2:12.4 | And so I chaplain the NWSL team, the Orlando Pride, which is Orlando's local women's soccer team, professional team. |
| 2:15.9 | And then also one of four chaplains for the U.S. women's national team. |
| 2:16.8 | Wow. |
| 2:51.0 | How'd you get into it? Because you were at the great ball state back in the day. Are you happy about this right now, Dave? I just think we've ever had a cardinal on here. Well, you're not a cardinal, but you were there. I actually went to the neighboring Taylor University. Oh, you were to Taylor. Taylor's awesome. I mean, yeah, so close. Now, did you work with athletes there? I did not work with athletes. So I was actually a crew campus. So we were working on the campus ministry there for about seven years. So, yeah, we did interact with athletes some, but mainly just with, yeah, student population. And then Northern Illinois? Northern Illinois for a few years, which was cold. |
| 2:54.8 | Somebody told us it was the last suburb of Chicago, and we drove and hit the last suburb |
| 2:59.3 | of Chicago, and then there were like miles of cornfield, and then we hit to Calv, Illinois, |
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