The two had been paired as co-leaders of student Huddles, and their lives converged with faith and football. The next morning, he met Emily, who was a diver at Texas A&M and would become his wife. “My life was being squeezed at the time, but I was tired of living how I was and surrendered my life to the Lord.” “I was living a double life when the speaker John Randall asked, ‘When life squeezes us, what’s coming out of you?’ He was talking about it’s not what we do, but what God puts in us,” said Poynter. As the Friday evening speaker asked pointed questions that seemed to be aimed straight at him, Poynter came to his crossroads moment. Poynter had attended Huddles in high school, but was a nominal Christian, attending church functions Sundays and Wednesdays but living out his own life the rest of the week. Chauncey Franks, the Texas Christian University FCA staff person, invited him to FCA Athlete Advance, a camp for college athletes. It began in college, when Poynter was an offensive lineman for the Southern Methodist University Mustangs in Dallas, TX.
Will, Love, PassionBetween coaching jobs at 10 schools in 11 years and surrendering to a life for Christ, Poynter and his wife Emily are all-in ambassadors for FCA.
The athletic director and head football coach at Wills Point Independent School in Wills Point, TX knows more than anyone that we can dream to make a life for ourselves, but it’s the Lord’s leading that takes us where we need to be. Tommy Poynter has Proverbs 16:9 written on his heart: A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps (NKJV).
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