Tim Tebow

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 540. Former NFL Player on Masculinity | Tim Tebow · 21 Apr 2025 podcast

Well, I think I'd probably go back to the first time I was inspired that I really felt like I was called to start a foundation or be involved. And I wouldn't even say I even knew it was a foundation, but that's when I was 15 years old. And I was on a mission trip to the Philippines. And as a country that I love very much, I was actually born there, lived the first five years of my life there.

And then went back with my dad and a group of people to the Philippines. And on this trip, we got to do a lot of amazing things. One of the islands I got to visit was a very remote island. Philippines is made up of over 7,200 islands and many of them are extremely remote. And I got to go to an extremely remote island. And on this island, we get to share our faith and encourage the people.

But one of the things that radically impacted my life was I had the privilege of meeting a boy who was born with his feet on backwards. And because he was born this way, he was treated as less than insignificant and cursed. And he was a throwaway to the people there. And my heart broke for him.

And I knew he wasn't a throwaway to God, but I just felt like God was pricking my heart saying, okay, then what are you gonna do about it? If you know he's not a throwaway to me and you know he's not cursed, you know that he's actually fearfully and wonderfully made, you know that he's one of one, he's loved, what are you gonna do about it? And I didn't know what that meant.

I didn't know what that looked like in a practical. I just knew going down that mountain that day and leaving that island that I was somehow supposed to fight for boys and girls, to fight for people that couldn't fight for themselves. And I'm only, was it maybe finishing my sophomore year of high school. And I'm trying to figure that out. What does that look like?

And I get through high school and college and we were involved in different ministries and orphan care. And my dad's a missionary. And so I got to grow up on mission field and seeing a lot of that. But the first thing I did when I graduated from the University of Florida was start the foundation.

with the mission statement to bring faith, hope, and love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need. When I wrote that, all I did was think about that boy, where he was in his life and what he needed to bring faith, hope, and love to someone in their darkest hour of need. To sum it up, it's to fight for people that can't fight for themselves.

And when we presented this and when we launched the foundation, there were some people that wanted to be supportive, like, oh, that's a good heart. Thank you, good intentions. But there are a lot of people that said, it's too broad. You won't be successful.

You can't do all the things we were talking about because it started in orphan care and then a hospital and special needs and wish granting organization. And that's kind of how it started. And so many people, I even remember at our first press conference to say, this is our heart and our starting. And this is what we're calling the foundation. This is our mission statement.

And one of the first questions, but don't you think it's too broad?

I think so. And my response to it was, this is what I feel like we're called to do. And every door that God opens that He wants us to run down, I don't wanna say, oh no, because we wanna be successful, we're only gonna go down this. No, we wanna get to as many hurting people as possible.

And one of the ways that I like to share it is I knew when I got to that island and I met that boy that I love sports. I loved the game. I love baseball, basketball, and football. I love competing. I loved winning. I hated losing even more. I was nth degree competitive. And I had the chance to be somewhat successful at sports and win some championships and even MVP sometimes.

And one of the things that I really felt like was pricked on my heart and I don't even know Dr. Peterson if I could have explained it verbally then as much as it was just in my heart. But now the way I'd explain it was I was chasing trying to be my best and every now and then being the best and you could say chasing an MVP of most valuable player.

But God pricked my heart that day and said, I have a more important MVP for you to chase. It's not the most valuable player. It's the most vulnerable people. Because they're worth far more than some other MVP.

They're great questions. I would start with... My opinion on probably why they believed he was cursed in last thing is because that's what they had been told for a long time. That's what they had believed, that because he was born this way, he was cursed. And it was a belief that... that he was less than.

And actually to tell more of the story, when we got there and we gathered all the people to share with them, to share our faith, it was my opportunity to share. And I think it was probably around 1200 people was total in the whole village. And I actually saw three boys leaving. And you gotta understand, this is weird because the Filipinos love Americans.

I mean, they were fighting to get as close to us as possible. They're so excited. They have visitors. Many would say, tell us that we're the first visitors that they had ever seen in their entire life. And so they're so excited. And I see these three middle school age boys leaving. And it just caught my eye. I'm like, why?

People are, I mean, they're literally as close to us as possible as we're sharing. And I finished and I just had it on my heart. I want to go see about these three boys. Why did they leave? And to make a long story short, I walked around the corner and one of the boys came, was walking up to me and...

he grabs me by two of my fingers and I try to say hey to him, he says nothing, he just grabs me and he pulls me back to this tiny little bamboo hut and he walks in there and then I get on my knees and I crawl in there and I see the other two boys and one of them's sitting there holding a boy's hand like this and the other one's laying on the cot and it looks like everything's fine but then I see the boy laying on the cot, I see his legs, I see they're on backwards.

And it was really the first time I'd ever seen anything like this that close and personal. And so I get a little bit emotional, but I hold it back and I'm sitting there and I'm talking with these three boys and I'm sharing why we're there and God's heart and love for them.

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