SBEC baseball coach Lee Hall challenges coaches at the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association convention with "Don't Let the Scoreboard Run Your Program: Invest in the Lives of Your Players."

Vickie Christopher (fourth from left) holds the title to the car made available to her by the SBEC baseball team.

Southern Baptist Educational Center baseball coach Lee Hall was the featured speaker at the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association convention recently held in Birmingham, Ala.

Hall, who was a college and high school coach in Alabama for 19 years before coming to SBEC in 2010, addressed the coaches on the seminar "Don't Let the Scoreboard Run Your Program: Invest in the Lives of Your Players."

Coaches from across Alabama embraced the challenge to look beyond the wins and losses in the game of baseball and help prepare the young men for life.

Hall has modeled his message to the coaches. In December, he organized the SBEC baseball team to secure, help repair, clean, wax and polish a used car for one of the very valued lunchroom workers at SBEC. Vickie Christopher, who needed an automobile for transportation but did not have the money to purchase one.

"We were thrilled to be able to help out Ms. Vickie," Hall said. "She does so much for our students, faculty, and staff each day serving in our lunch room. We just thought it was a great opportunity to teach our young men that giving is so much greater than receiving.

"It was a true blessing for our team to see Ms. Vickie's reactions when we presented her with the car."

George Carnall is the director of development for SBEC.

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