Sport is a mission field

Graham Daniels  |  Features  |  Field of Dreams
Date posted:  1 Jan 2018
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Sport is a mission field

‘The reason I go to church on Sunday is that I follow Jesus! Do you ever go to church?’

Those words changed my life.

Gwyon Jenkins was a really good cricketer in the school First XI, and he sat by me on the team bus. I was 15 and had been chosen at the last minute because they were one player short. Gwyon said those words in response to my time-filling question on the journey home. I had simply asked: ‘What did you do at the weekend?’

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