Steps of faith: High school football players baptized after recent practice

It looked like a typical scene following a high school football practice — sweaty jerseys, tired players and a tub of cold water sitting just past the endzone.
Mark Page (center), worship and student pastor at Cary First Baptist Church, prays over members of the Cary High School varsity and junior varsity football team after baptizing 11 players after practice on Tuesday, Oct. 7.
(Photo courtesy of the Biblical Recorder)

Steps of faith: High school football players baptized after recent practice

It looked like a typical scene following a high school football practice — sweaty jerseys, tired players and a tub of cold water sitting just past the endzone.

The tub wasn’t for icing down sore muscles, however. One by one, nearly a dozen players from Cary High School’s football team stepped into the water, not for recovery, but to demonstrate rebirth.

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In a moving public display of faith, 11 players from Cary High’s varsity and junior varsity football teams were baptized following a recent practice on Oct. 7, in front of teammates, coaches, family, friends and members of a local Baptist church.

The post-practice baptisms were a highlight of two years of consistent ministry by Cary First Baptist Church that began with a simple gesture — providing pregame meals to the teams each week.

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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Chad Austin and originally published by Biblical Recorder. 

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