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220 find “victory in Jesus” on Gridiron Day at Roopville Road Baptist and First Baptist of Villa Rica
submitted by Roger Alford, Index News Sendee
Georgia pastor Kevin Williams sees what he
describes as a spiritual shift that is bringing the
Bible back to the Bible Belt. “People are
searching for truth,” he said the day after 220
students in Carroll County surrendered their
lives to Christ. “We’re living in a time that the
Bible warns about, when people will be calling
wrong right and right wrong. We’ve reached a
point where people are saying enough is
enough. It’s like a switch has flipped and
things are going back the right direction.”
The result has been large numbers of
Georgians turning to Christ in communities all
over the state, including the astonishing move
of God during “Gridiron Day” Thursday,
August 10, 2023, among high school football
players, cheerleaders and band members in
Villa Rica and Roopville. Georgians are also
seeing a renewed boldness among Christians to
proclaim Jesus, including Christians who hold
prominent positions in the world of athletics.
David Rocker, who played Auburn University
and Los Angeles Rams, shared the gospel with
hundreds of students at Roopville Road Baptist
Church, Carrollton, during “Gridiron Day”.
At the same time on the other side of Carroll
County in Villa Rica, Rich Wingo, who played
five seasons for the Green Bay Packers after
finishing his college career at the University of
Carroll County: slight rise in COVID cases; 14
new hospital admissions for the mild variant “Eris”
from press release
While the Georgia Department of Public
Health (DPH) is tracking a slight rise in new
COVID cases/hospitalizations, numbers remain
relatively low. As of August 19, 2023, Carroll
County had 14 new hospital admissions of con
firmed COVTD in the prior week. Carroll
County’s transmission level is considered less
than 10%, which is classified as “low,” accord
ing to the CDC. In both percentage change and
raw terms, nationwide and local hospitaliza
tions remain far below their pandemic-era
peak.
According to the DPH District 4 Risk
Coordinator/Public Information Officer,
Natalie Shelton, “New variants are circulating,
and more are anticipated to emerge. Just how
much they spread is largely dependent on how
well we take precautions to prevent ourselves
and others from getting sick. We’re going to
see fluctuations in COVID activity, especially
in the summer as people travel, gather tor wed
dings, go to concerts, and then as our children
have gone back to school. The tall months will
bring the traditional flu season, along with
other respiratory illnesses like RSV and
COVID, and we may then see ups and down in
activity due to holiday gatherings, for
instance.”
The new variant, EG.5, which has been nick
named “Eris,” is the dominant COVID variant
spreading in the U.S. Early data indicates Eris
may be more easily transmissible than some
other variants, but it does not appear to cause a
more severe disease. The CDC says the current
COVID vaccine is effective against Eris, and
Eris infections are picked up by COVID tests.
District 4 Public Health’s county health
departments, which includes Carroll County,
offer COVTD vaccines, self-test kits, and PCR
testing with no out-of-pocket costs to individu
als. If a patient has insurance, the health depart
ment may bill the company for administrative
costs. To schedule an appointment:
www.district4health.org/make-an-appointment
or call 800-847-4262.
Alabama, told hundreds of students gathered at
First Baptist Church of Villa Rica about Jesus.
Rocker and Wingo’s messages were strikingly
similar: only Jesus can satisfy people’s deepest
longings. Bryant Turner, executive pastor at
Roopville Road and chair of the Carroll
County Board of Education, said his church
got involved in “Gridiron Day” for the first
time this year after seeing how effective it has
been at First Baptist Villa Rica over the past
decade. Like Williams, Turner is seeing the
pendulum swinging back to Biblical tmth,
especially among teens.Tumer talked about a
conversation he had with a student who will be
attending the University of Southern California
on an athletic scholarship.
“He had every award and medal you could
get, president of every club in his high school,”
Turner said. “Yet, he said he felt a void.”
Turner told him, “We were all bom with a huge
void in our hearts that can only be filled with
Jesus.” That young man bowed his head and
prayed to receive Christ and felt complete
satisfaction. “I have finally filled the void in
my life,” he told Turner.
At Roopville Road, 70 students prayed to
receive Christ on Thursday, as did 150 students
at Villa Rica.
Tim Williams, missions director in the
Carroll County Baptist Association, said many
of the 800 students and coaches in the two
churches Thursday night were already
committed Christians.
“I think a lot of kids are seeing that they’ve
been fed a line that success can make you
happy,” Tim Williams said. “The tmth is Christ
is the One who makes the difference. These
kids are getting that. I haven’t heard of 220
kids getting saved on a single night in a long,
long time. This is huge.”
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