Jay Dickey: “there is a story that comes from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, that explains why I am for this amendment and want to speak for…”

“there is a story that comes from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, that explains why I am for this amendment and want to speak for it at this time. Some 8, 10 years ago, there was an organization called the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Pine Bluff High School. A minister had been over the years taking care of it. He got transferred out. He could not find anybody, no faculty member, nobody else. He came to a group of us adults and he said, Would you all take over the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and just kind of monitor it and see if you can continue to do the good that we have tried to do? We said yes. We met once a week during school. We would have prayer, we would provide prayer before ballgames, we would get the kids at the ballgames to go get the other kids after the game and those that wanted to would pray in the middle of the field, and we did those things. We also did other things. We tried to raise funds in the community so that we could go to national camp. At one time we sent 75 kids to national camp. They all got together and they sold different things, car washes, and everything else. We did things on the weekends. We would have a hobo olympics on the weekends. No one objected to that. But all of a sudden there started to come in some objections from other areas.”