WORSHIP … Josh Green, Beau Reeder, Brailyn Fogarty, and Dave Chumchal led the entire Fields of Faith event in beautiful worship. (PHOTO BY LINDSAY PHILLIPS, STAFF)
By: Lindsay Phillips
On October 9, 2022, students and community members of about eight different schools gathered at Biddle Park in Wauseon for Fellowship of Christian Athletes annual Fields of Faith.
Students from Delta, Evergreen, Wauseon, and Pettisville schools could be seen on the baseball field praying, worshiping and sharing fellowship.
As guests showed up, they were greeted and given song lyrics, and a paper with prayer instructions and information if someone were to be led to Christ.
The event began at 6:00 p.m. with an introduction from FCA Area Director, Rex Stump.
He opened with a word of prayer that was followed by a worship team singing a few songs including Way Maker by Leeland.
After a few moving songs of worship, very brave students took the microphone and shared moving stories and testimonies.
A huge treat to wrap up the testimonies, was one by twenty-year-old baseball player Brennan Frickel, who lost his brother at a very young age while dealing with a terrible injury with many complications.
He took his grief and struggles and allowed God to change him and set him on a new path.
Brennan stated, “I am twenty years old, and I can stand here and finally faithfully say that my identity is in Jesus Christ.”
“I can tell you that the Holy Spirit is real, and it is working, I can tell you that there are people who need to hear you and hear your story.”
Frickel urged the students that they were chosen with so much purpose, and to spread God’s word with others.
Stump approached the microphone again following Frickel’s testimony, and encouraged those who prayed the prayer of accepting Christ into their lives that evening, to text the FCA number on the paper they were given when arriving the event, to follow up with FCA.
Although temperatures began dropping more through the evening, the field lights came on, those in attendance continued through the cold with one goal in mind, prayer.
After the moving testimony of Mr. Frickel, guests went off into small groups to pray for one another.
The evening ended at 7:30 p.m. as Mr. Stump encouraged those to go out in their lives and live for God.
Lindsay can be reached at lindsay@thevillagereporter.com