Tim Tebow
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 23 Feb
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And then you're called? I felt many times I was figuring out God's plan. I think there's so much time in sports that's trying to figure it out.
I can take some of those one by one. What's that? I can take some of them one by one because they're all different stories of how we got into them.
And sometimes it is like, sometimes maybe too much. Sometimes maybe I've known, but I'm trying to deliberate and figure out and discern and do all this. And sometimes maybe I just hang on it too much rather than trust. And I'm trying to ask God for clarity. And he's like, I gave you clarity. Go do it. And so I feel like I've made that mistake a lot as well. But there's been some times.
So for the example of Night to Shine, we were getting ready to celebrate our fifth year anniversary as a foundation. And our president at the time came to me and he said, hey, there's these two churches that we know of that have something called like a Jesus prom, where they celebrate individuals with special needs.
And at that time, we already served individuals with special needs in multiple countries around the world in different ways. And he said, so since we have such a heart for them and we serve them, what if we, as a five-year anniversary, what if we did something instead of just like having a banquet or something, what if we did something to celebrate them and how special would that be?
And I said, I love it. He said, awesome. Where do you want to have it? Do you want to have it like in Florida, Texas, Tennessee, New York? Do you want to have it in Guatemala, Brazil, Philippines? Like where should we have it at the places we serve? And I said, yeah. Just my first gut or heart response was, I think we need to have it everywhere. And he says, what do you mean?
And I said, I don't know. I just know that every boy and girl, man or woman with special needs has been treated as less than. They're not. We need all of them to know their true worth and value and their families to know their true worth and value. And I think we need to have it everywhere. And he's like, bro, what are you talking about? No, it's what I'm talking about.
And I don't think he was very happy with me at the time. And it's just one of those moments. And then we went back, and we talked to our team, and we talked to our board. And I just felt compelled. No, we need to try to have this everywhere.
and so our team and board started to talk about what that would look like and we thought well what's the greatest way to do this partner with the church it's an army that's mostly unmobilized around the world and so we're okay we came up with the 72 page manual for the first year of all the ways we're going to do it and then try to fund it and partner with churches to put it on and because we also want what's hopefully the best night of every king and queen's life
to be at a church so they would come back on Sunday and be loved, so they would know they're part of a family, that this isn't a one-time thing. This is an everyday thing. You are loved this way every day of your life. This is not a one night. And I tell them that every single year, that they are told over and over and over again, we do this because
This is how the God of this universe sees you every day of your life, as a king or a queen. And so we were just praying that first year, please, we hope churches would partner with us. And that first year, we had just over 40 churches partner with us in 26 states and three countries. And we were like, yes, yes. God, you're so big. Thank you so much. It's awesome.
We're just so grateful and humbled. And we flew to the, so that night, the first year, we're like, okay, we're going to go to one in North Carolina. And then because South Carolina is close, we're going to fly to South Carolina so we can get to two. So we flew to North Carolina for the first one. And just as we got there, there's some of the kings and queens walking down the red carpet.
And I told some of the team, I said, wait, back here. I just want to watch it from about 30, 40 yards away. And I started to watch the first couple of kings and queens go down the aisle and to watch them be celebrated in their glow and watch their parents watch them. And... I thought, man, this is special.
And then when we went to South Carolina for that one, as we're walking in the arena where it was held, one of the moms runs up to me and she grabs, I mean, grabs me. She pulls me to the side and it's mama bear force, right? And she's holding me, squeezing my hands and then squeezing my shirt. And she's just, you could tell she wants to get this out so bad.
And she said, hey, my daughter, my daughter, she will never have kids. She will never get married. But tonight, she felt like a princess. And I just, I don't need to hear anything else. And then we got back more of the testimonies from the first year and hearing from people in some of the places that we serve driving for hours and some of them walking for hours.
And we thought, man, maybe this is something God wants us to do. And that next year, we decided we're going to do this until God tells us no. And so the next year, we did it again and had 201 locations. And then the next year, 375, and then on and on and on. And then even through COVID, we were able to do it through shine-ons and adjust a little bit, but still have it.
Now this last year we had over 820 locations in 64 nations in all 50 states. Eight hundred and how many? Over 820 locations around the world. And maybe 186 something thousand volunteers celebrating well over 100,000 kings and queens. And we got to be a part of some of those in Vietnam and And my wife was in South Africa, and we were in Thailand, and we're getting to see them.
And now I've been able to experience Night of Shines in, I don't know, maybe over 20 countries now. And I can't speak most of the languages. I can barely speak English. But Sean, it doesn't change. It doesn't change based on the country. Yes, culturally we change because we want to be culturally relevant and appropriate.
But the feel of the night doesn't change because it's not about English or Spanish or French or Tagalog or whatever language. It's a different language. It's a language on God's love, His worth, and His value for humanity. And that's why when we're in Thailand and Vietnam and All of these countries or we're right here, the feel of the night is one of hopefully of agape love.
One of my pastors, Pastor Joby Martin in Jacksonville, Florida, one of the kindest compliments he gave our team is he said, it smells like Jesus. Oh, man. And it's our favorite night of the year. And honestly, through that, God has opened more doors through that than anything else that I've ever experienced.
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