{"id":347756,"date":"2023-11-19T20:29:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T21:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=347756"},"modified":"2023-11-19T22:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T22:00:39","slug":"football-coach-fired-for-hosting-a-baptismal-service-his-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=347756","title":{"rendered":"Football coach fired for hosting a baptismal service his players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Isaac Ferrell, a high school football coach in Georgia who came to national attention for hosting a baptismal event for his team, was fired last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ferrell has been removed as head coach at Tattnall County High School (Reidsville, Ga.),\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/17\/news\/georgia-high-school-football-coach-isaac-ferrell-fired-after-conducting-baptism-for-players-after-a-practice\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">but remains employed by the school district<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. In a statement obtained by local NBC affiliate News 3,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsav.com\/news\/local-news\/tattnall-county-high-school-football-coach-holds-baptism-for-players-fired-shortly-after\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">it appears that the investigation is ongoing<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The baptisms took place on October 23, but the school district said an incident on November 3 led to the coach&#8217;s dismissal. It is unclear what the incident was or if there was a connection to his baptismal service on school property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Now, the district is looking for a &#8220;<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsav.com\/news\/local-news\/tattnall-county-high-school-football-coach-holds-baptism-for-players-fired-shortly-after\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Head football coach that aligned with the best interests of the students of Tattnall County for the 2024-2025 school year<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Gary Fews, a local pastor, conducted the voluntary baptismal service following a football practice. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TattnallCoFB\/videos\/1303273480351925\/\">video of the baptism<\/a> was posted on the Tattnall County football team&#8217;s Facebook page on the day after the service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The participants in the service used ice tubs for the process of baptism by immersion, as is the practice in many evangelical Christian churches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Social media reaction on the team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TattnallCoFB\">Facebook page<\/a> was largely and nearly universally supportive of the service when the video of the event in October was posted.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced that 20 players ended up being baptized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Isaac Ferrell, who hosted a baptismal service, was fired by Tattnall County.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347757,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347756\/revisions\/347757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}