Redbird multi sport athlete Kyle Hammers, others, gave their testiomy at Back to School Prayer Rally

http://www.wfgazette.com/features/redbird-corner-back-shares-encounter-with-christ-at-rally/article_39c6ee4a-9039-11e7-8f42-cbaff2e404eb.html

WEST FRANKFORT, IL – (Tim Hastings, West Frankfort Gazette.  Please click on the link to read the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

Kyle Hammers (23) in a game last basketball season against Murphysboro.

A Frankfort Community High School junior shared with several dozen of his peers at a back-to-school prayer rally that he recently felt as low as the soldier who nailed Christ to the cross.

“My Christian life was suffocating,” said Kyle Hammers, who plays corner-back and running-back for the Frankfort Community High School (FCHS) Redbirds. “I was having trouble with relationships and Jesus came running to me.”

Hammers spoke to approximately 40 members of the FCHS football team and cheerleading squad and 40 adults at the rally at First Christian Church of West Frankfort on Thursday night. He said the gospel shows Christ encountering outcasts when he was on earth. “Jesus came to earth for sinners,” Hammers said. “He came for people who were hurting.”