Ed Carter was our speaker at our TTA FCA weekly meeting last week. Mr. Carter is a graduate of the seminary, his son’s graduated from Tennessee Temple Academy and he is currently an evangelist. But that is not what he is most known for. Ed Carter is one of a few of the surviving football players from Marshal Football team that crashed traveling to a game. 70 players and coaches dies in that airplane crash on Nov. 14, 1970. The only reason Ed wasn’t a statistic that day is that he had returned home to attend his fathers funeral in Texas and his mother repeatedly asked him not to leave to go back to play against East Carolina, citing that “the Lord is telling me that something bad is going to happen son.” His testimony was centered on the Biblical principle from Ephesians 6:1, “Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. Honor your father and your mother so that you may have long life.” He alluded to the fact that although he wanted to go to the game with his teammates and despite the ridicule that awaited him, he obeyed his mother and because of the promise from Jesus, it saved his life this particular time.
There is currently a movie in the theatres about this true story starring Matthew McConaughey called We are Marshall.
http://www.marshall.edu/library/speccoll/virtual_museum/Memorial/players/77-carter.asp
http://www.marshall.edu/library/speccoll/virtual_museum/Memorial/default.asp
Pictures will be posted soon.
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