Rob Connerty, FCA-Vermont Leadership Board, Chairman
Q. How has FCA helped you to know Christ?
A. Life has challenges and opportunities every day for every person. FCA helps me better understand the challenges and opportunities that student-athletes and coaches face in the public arena. Many of them spend their days in a faithless and anti-faith environment, as they try to walk out their personal faith in their schools and on their teams. Because of my connection with FCA, I get to see Christ in these young athletes and coaches and how they respond in faith to their challenges, which encourages me in my own faith, and it gives me an opportunity to support and pray for them in their walk.
Q. How did you get connected with FCA?
A. Through my wife. She was an adult leader of an FCA huddle at a private elite sports academy in our town, for 13 years. These high school-age girls, some of whom were believers but most who were not, lived at the academy, most of them far away from their homes. I witnessed the love of Christ impacting the lives of these girls, through my wife and FCA. Their weekly FCA huddle and other FCA activities taught these girls from God’s word, how much He loves them, how they can love each other, and what a life with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior looks like. My wife’s experience and seeing the impact FCA had on these girls, encouraged me to get involved with FCA summer leadership camps and on our state FCA leadership board where my wife and I have served for a number of years.
Q. How and why do you support the ministry of FCA?
A. I love God and I love sports. I know the impact FCA can have in the lives of student-athletes, coaches, families, and communities using sports as a platform. Young people need the hope of Christ, maybe like never before. So, my wife and I support FCA financially because we know FCA works.
Q. What is God teaching you right now?
A. A number of things……………. To be more sensitive to His Holy Spirit, so that when he prompts, I recognize that it’s Him and I respond. He’s teaching me to trust Him with my time and agenda and not to charge ahead without Him. He’s teaching me to leave margin in my days so I can answer Yes when someone needs me. He’s teaching me that our state needs Fellowship of Christian Athletes, but, that people in our state can’t participate, support, volunteer, or pray for FCA if they don’t know about us. So, he’s teaching me the importance of letting people know about FCA.