Tenacious: How God Used a Terminal Diagnosis to Turn a Family and a Football Team into Champions
Written by Jeremy Williams, Jennifer Williams and Robert Suggs
Narrated by Julie Lyles Carr
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JeremyWilliams captured the nation’s imagination by coaching his high school footballteam to unprecedented heights while combating ALS and caring for a son withspina bifida. This is his family’s inspiring story.
America firstmet Jeremy and Jennifer Williams when Extreme Makeover: Home Editionrebuilt their Depression-era farmhouse into a beautiful, handicapped-accessiblehaven. Friends, family, and neighbors from their west Georgia community—and allover the state—came together to support the ailing high school coach who hadwon their respect and their hearts. It made for compelling television but onlytold a little slice of the story. Tenacious gives you the rest—a tenderlove story, a thrilling sports story, and an unforgettable testimony to thepower of faith and grit in the face of almost overwhelming adversity. In Tenaciousyou’ll meet:
- The distraught parents learning their son would be born with spina bifida.
- The young father facing his own devastating diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) with matter-of-fact courage.
- The coach who guided his underdog team to a 10–0 Cinderella season—while struggling to walk, talk, and even breathe.
Packed fullof faith, hope, love, and miracles, Tenacious is a story you don’t wantto miss.
Jeremy Williams
Jeremy Williams grew up in Madagascar where he lived with his parents, two brothers, two sisters, a dog, three pigeons, sixteen chickens, four ducks, four tortoises, two cats that liked him and one that did not. There was no TV or computer games, so he read every children's book in the house, then Dad's history books and Mum's classic novels. Then he started on the encyclopedia. He read as far as G before somebody sent some new books. Unsurprisingly, Jeremy has only ever wanted to be a writer. Today he writes serious books for adults and less serious books for children. He still doesn't have quite enough books.
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