Personal Ministry: Football

For this month of personal ministry I was working with Tim filming high school football games again for his son Isaac's team. I had a total of 8 hours in ministry hours for the football team this month. We record every game play by play so the coaches and teams have something to watch for the next week. They use these recordings to see what they do right or wrong in each situation and what they might need to improve on. This month Century, the team we film for, won two games and lost two games. They played their final game this past Friday against their rivals, the Liberty Lions, and lost 15-8. Being in the lead for the first half, Century gave up their lead to Liberty at the beginning of the 3^rd quarter which ended up giving the game away for them. It was blistering cold that night as well and while I really wanted Century to win it got to a point where I was just ready for the game to be over. However, I have enjoyed the opportunity to serve the football team for these past two months. It is my hope that the coaches and players of the football team saw a little bit of Jesus through our willingness to volunteer and serve them.

For our recording time we had to record each play made. In order to do that you not only have to get every player in the shot but you also have to follow the ball or the ball carrier throughout the entire play. Sometimes it can get tricky but for the most part it was easy and enjoyable. During half time Tim would drop the video file for the first half in to iMovie in order to get a head start on editing for the next day. Ben and I were the two running the video and we would take turns recording at each quarter. This was really helpful for cold nights when our hands were half frozen because of the weather. This whole month of video and football was enjoyable for both me and Ben and I'm sad to see it be over, but football has to end sometime.