Students were challenged to build their lives on a foundation grounded in Christ during the Baptist university’s first Spring Convocation for Athletics, a chapel-style gathering that brought together nearly 500 student-athletes from across all 21 intercollegiate sports programs. The event featured guest speaker Heiden Ratner, a former collegiate basketball player and founding pastor of WALK Church in Las Vegas. Ratner spoke from John 15 on Jesus’ parable of the vine and branches, shared his personal testimony, and challenged student-athletes to build their lives on Christ rather than their sport.
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“Heiden did an amazing job relating his own experience of making basketball his God and asking the hard question: What happens when your sport doesn’t work out and you’ve built your life on it?” said Dylan Moran, a senior business management major on UM’s Rams baseball team.
“That message really hit home and showed how putting anything above God will eventually affect your life. What made the chapel even more meaningful was seeing the impact it had on others. One of my teammates was saved through this message,” Moran said.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Kathy Dean and originally published by the University of Mobile.
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