SATURDAY,
October 21, 2017
Movie Event!! Our next featured movie is WOODLAWN. A gifted high school football player confronts his need to boldly embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field in WOODLAWN, a moving and inspirational film based on the true story of how love and unity overcame hate and division in early 1970s Birmingham, Ala.
Tony Nathan lands in a powder keg of anger and violence when he joins fellow African-American students at Woodlawn High School after its government-mandated desegregation in 1973. The Woodlawn Colonels football team is a microcosm of the problems at the school and in the city, which erupts in cross burnings and riots, and Coach Gerelds is at a loss to solve these unprecedented challenges with his disciplinarian ways.
It’s only when Hank, an outsider who has been radically changed by the Christian message of hope and love, convinces Coach Gerelds to let him speak to the team that something truly remarkable begins to happen. More than 40 players, nearly the entire team, black and white, give their lives over to the “better way” Hank tells them is possible through following Jesus, and the change is so profound in them it affects their coach, their school and their community in ways no one could have imagined.
Join us as we also honor Manchester Township’s Varsity Football Team and hear from several of its key Christian athletes, as part of our presentation of this stirring "true story" film.
October 21, 2017
Movie Event!! Our next featured movie is WOODLAWN. A gifted high school football player confronts his need to boldly embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field in WOODLAWN, a moving and inspirational film based on the true story of how love and unity overcame hate and division in early 1970s Birmingham, Ala.
Tony Nathan lands in a powder keg of anger and violence when he joins fellow African-American students at Woodlawn High School after its government-mandated desegregation in 1973. The Woodlawn Colonels football team is a microcosm of the problems at the school and in the city, which erupts in cross burnings and riots, and Coach Gerelds is at a loss to solve these unprecedented challenges with his disciplinarian ways.
It’s only when Hank, an outsider who has been radically changed by the Christian message of hope and love, convinces Coach Gerelds to let him speak to the team that something truly remarkable begins to happen. More than 40 players, nearly the entire team, black and white, give their lives over to the “better way” Hank tells them is possible through following Jesus, and the change is so profound in them it affects their coach, their school and their community in ways no one could have imagined.
Join us as we also honor Manchester Township’s Varsity Football Team and hear from several of its key Christian athletes, as part of our presentation of this stirring "true story" film.
SATURDAY, February 17, 2018
