PLAYER HANDOUT BASEBALL & FAITH: A GREAT DOUBLE PLAY MEMORY VERSE: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. PROVERBS 3:5-6 1st – Warm-Up 2nd – Play Ball! Brian Roberts of the Orioles Brian Roberts of the Orioles puts a Bible and Matt Capps of the Twins are two great examples of verse on the bottom of his cap and signs Major League Baseball his autograph with Proverbs 3:5-6. Matt players who are not afraid to Capps, who is the closer for the Minnesota Twins mix baseball with their faith. always prays before he throws a pitch to the batter. Read today’s Devotion to When Matt comes into a game, he completes his learn about them. warm up pitches and gets the ball. Matt then steps off the back of the mound, takes off his cap, bows his TODAY’S QUESTION... head and prays. Matt does not pray to win or lose, but for God to get the glory for what he does on the field. WHAT ABOUT YOU?...Are you a Matt also gets water for the other members of the Christian? Do your teammates know? bullpen when they are warming up. He serves them What can you do to serve your team- by getting them water. Both Brian and Matt use the mates and your coaches? game of baseball to be a witness for God. We are to be a witness for Christ on the baseball 3rd – The 7th Inning Stretch field. We do that by the way we play and how we treat our coaches and team mates, opposition players and If it is ok with your parents...go to coaches, and the umpires. Wherever we are in life as YouTube and search for the video a Christian, we must be a witness for Christ. Just like on “Matt Capps relationship with Brian Roberts and Matt Capps have found ways to his father.” This 5 minute video is share their faith on the field, each one of us should do the same. Maybe we can get water for team mates or a great tribute to his father who put a Bible verse on the bottom of our caps. Let’s all passed away before seeing his son find a way we can be a witness for Christ every where play in the Major Leagues. every day as we live and as we play the great game. Source: FCA Baseball Devotions— http://www.fcabaseball.org HOME – Crossing the Plate! REMEMBER!! – MATT CAPPS' ADVICE TO YOUNG ATHLETES: "Be yourself. God made us who we are, and He wants us to be ourselves. He wants other people to see us and what He made and the beauty that's in each and every one of us as individuals. I'm not going to be like anybody else, and they're not going to be like me. But just be yourself and let that person come through. And when people talk to you, let them know who you are and what you're about. Let them see Christ through you." HOMEWORK – Work on memorizing PROVERBS 3:5-6 ( printed at top of page ). .