Brownwood Area FCA Representative Kurt Newton stopped by KOXE for a Wednesday morning interview in which he provided an update on the many events happening during the month of October.

First will be the sixth annual Brownwood-Stephenville FCA Challenge Friday night during the Battle of 377 at Gordon Wood Stadium. Each school will be raising money through fan donations during the first half of the game. Fans can donate inside the gate at the game and all proceeds will go to the Huddle for each school with half going to the school’s camp fund, and half going to the school’s huddle to pay for snacks and other things needed throughout the year.

“It’s a friendly competition showing the schools can be rivals on the field, but we are united in Christ,” Newton said.

On Saturday at Coggin Avenue Baptist Church, female coaches as well as the wives of coaches will be recognized for their contributions in an event sponsored by TexasBank and Ann Jones Real Estate.

“This time of year football coaches get most of the press time, but our lady coaches do the same things the guys do,” Newton said. “They try to build a team but at the same time try to instill in our girls what it’s like to be a good citizen and help them mature.”

The event was originally planned for the spring, but was rescheduled due to COVID-19. Registration for the event begins at 9 a.m. Saturday.

Newton further elaborated on the event, stating, “This is a day that we set aside with FCA to honor our female coaches and our coaches wife and remind them how much they’re appreciated. It’s a day that we’ll spend at Coggin Baptist Church and we’ve got a lady by the name of Kelly Randles, she’s the wife of the late evangelist John Randles, coming to speak and Debbie Daniel, wife of the late Tony Daniel, is going to speak to them.”

The Brownwood Area FCA will also host a four-person golf tournament at The Hideout at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. The cost to enter is $85 person which includes a round of golf and cart, a hat and a sandwich. The Hideout (325-784-4653) is handling all the registration, according to Newton.

“We’re going to have a couple of fun holes if you pay a little extra on the tee box,” Newton said. “On one par 3 we’re going to have a hula hoop sitting on the ground and if you hit your ball inside the hula hoop you get to mark a 1 on your scorecard. We’re going to have another hole, a par 5, where if you pay a little extra you get to hit your tee shot from 150 yards out. Of course we’ll have the long drive hole and closest to the pin holes. We’re going to have some fun with it. We’ll be paying two flights, first and second in each flight.”

Newton added that the hole sponsor money will go toward helping kids attend camp, with a goal of sending 30 to 40 kids to camp in the summer.

Also, multiple Fields of Faith events are scheduled in the coming weeks, a change from years past.

“The reason we’re having so many this year is because of the limits on how many we can have in the stadium,. We can’t have 3,000 on the home side of Gordon Wood Stadium this year,” Newton said. “All of these Fields of Faith, we’re going by the COVID guidelines that the schools and the UIL have in place with social distancing and masks. We’re following that protocol and trying to keep everybody as safe as we can.”

Richland Springs kicks off the Fields of Faith events on Monday, Oct. 5 then on Monday, Oct. 12, Howard Payne will host its own event on campus for HPU students and faculty.

“Corbin Young, a former Howard Payne football player and graduate of HPU, he was the first person to handle the FCA position in Brownwood that I now hold,” Newton said, referring to the guest speaker for the HPU event. “Now he is FCA area representative and men’s athletic chaplain for Texas Tech University.

“We’ll also have a local band, Matthew Pickard and his wife, Hunter Carrier I know he’s in that band, they’re really good. They’ll be there with Corbin.”

Goldthwaite will host its Fields of Faith Oct. 13 with Brownwood to follow Oct. 14.

“Our speaker is Cody Hodges, an old Texas Tech quarterback who was an NCAA passing leader and played a little bit in the NFL,” Newton said of the Brownwood event. “I was able to hear him last year at the Tech sport camp for a week and he’s tremendous.

“And the Tyler Daniel Band, Tony Daniel’s son, they are really, really good and they’ll be there.”

Early’s Fields of Faith event is set for Oct. 17 and Coleman will follow on Oct. 21.

Also, an FCA co-ed softball tournament, originally set for Oct. 24, has been postponed, according to Newton.