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A quarterback instead of a preacher: SI cover story features Tebow Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009 By Staff |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A July 27 Sports Illustrated cover story on Florida quarterback Tim Tebow recounts the difficulties surrounding Tebow's birth, when doctors at one time urged his parents to abort. Tebow's father Bob told SI's Austin Murphy the story from the Philippines, where he was doing mission work. "When I was out in the mountains in Mindanao, back in '86, I was showing a film and preaching that night. I was weeping over the millions of babies being [aborted] in America, and I prayed, 'God, if you give me a son, if you give me Timmy, I'll raise him to be a preacher,'" Bob Tebow said. The Tebows conceived shortly thereafter, with their fifth child. But the pregnancy was difficult, Murphy writes. "The placenta was never properly attached, and there was bleeding from the get-go," Bob recalled in the story. "We thought we'd lost him several times." Pam contracted amebic dysentery, which briefly put her in a coma, Murphy reports. Her doctors were afraid that medications they had given her had damaged the fetus, and advised her to abort the pregnancy. But the Tebows refused, and Pam gave birth on Aug. 14, 1987, to a healthy Timothy Richard Tebow. "All his life, from the moment he could understand, I told him, 'You're a miracle baby,'" Bob recalls. "God's got a purpose for you, and at some point I think He's going to call you to preach. "I asked God for a preacher, and he gave me a quarterback." That may be the case, but Tim Tebow does his share of preaching as well. The SI story chronicles one trip he took to a prison to talk to inmates about Jesus Christ. "If you were to die right now, where would you be?" Tebow asked during his address. "For me," he says, "I have an answer to that question. I am one hundred percent certain I'm going to go to heaven because I have Jesus Christ in my life." --30--
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