Feb 08
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TEAM HALLY GAME: A GREAT DAY IN MANHATTAN!

By K-State Basketball

We had a ball!

Thank you to everyone who came out to enjoy the K-State women’s basketball game with us on January 19. We were thrilled to see so many familiar faces, and many new ones too!

Please click to enjoy the many photos submitted by our friends who also attended the game.

Below are words from some of our Team Hally followers about why they enjoy the Team Hally game every year:

The Team Hally game not only means a lot to the fans but it is a tradition that has been passed down over the years from player to player. This game and the relationship with the families involved in Team Hally mean a lot to us as players on and off the court. When I started at Kansas State, I didn’t know about the Team Hally events that went on. When I got on the team, the meaning behind it grew on me and it is now something I hold close to my heart and look forward to doing each year. Having the support behind not only the Yust family but the other families involved helps us as players feel supported and loved. The event after the game was a great time to be able to connect with the families and enjoy watching the Chiefs get a win! It was nice to be able to connect with different people from all ages enjoy each other’s company after such a meaningful game.”
–K-State Sophomore Christianna Carr

What a special day for both our program and the entire Team Hally community to rally together to celebrate the life of Hally Yust. There was extra energy in Bramlage on Sunday from the tunnel walk to all the signs in the crowd; our team could feel it. This was another opportunity for our student-athletes to be impacted by something much bigger than the game of basketball. We are reminded of the love that Hally had for K-State and the women’s basketball program. Hally and the Yust family will forever be a part of our K-State family.
–K-State Women’s Basketball Coach Sadie Thramer

I was excited to invite my basketball team from Christ Prep to the Team Hally game this year. I was able to tell them about Hally and her love for the Lord and the ministry of giving Bibles. It was so neat to see the connection to the K-State players and being able to pray for them and see them after the game. I aways enjoy going to the Team Hally game every year. Though I was only friends with Hally for a few years, I am thankful to God for her friendship and for the hope we have in Christ.
but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defence to anyone who ask you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect 
1 Peter 3:15
–Team Hally Supporter Sophie Brunkow

The Team Hally game is a special event because it gathers a community of friends and family to not just simply watch basketball and have a good time, but more importantly to give the opportunity to invest in lives. This investment happens as individuals from Team Hally intentionally pray for the players each week, looking for ways to encourage and support them as athletes, students, and friends. In the midst of the busyness of life we are unable to attend every game seeing all their ups and downs, and their wins and losses. But through prayer we have the opportunity to love, support and care for one another through all of life’s circumstances. I have attended the Team Hally Game every year and it is always so neat to see which relationships God grows deeper and to see who else He brings into your life.
–Hally’s Cousin and Team Hally Supporter Noelle Lynch

Feb 08
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Prayer Requests for January 2020

By Prayer
  • Praising God for His Word!
  • Praise for the wonderful time at K-State Team Hally game!
  • Pray for K-State Coach Ostermann and players Angela Harris and Alisa Wiggins for their season this year.
  • Pray for hearts that have received God’s Word this past year and those that will this coming year.
  • Pray for and trusting God’s provision in directing the new year.
Oct 01
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K-State Women’s Basketball Game

By K-State Basketball
Join Team Hally in January
Team Hally has a special relationship with the K-State women’s basketball team, as it was an aspiration of Hally’s from an early age to play ball there. In the spirit of this relationship, each year Team Hally members travel to Manhattan for a women’s basketball game.

The 2020 game is Sunday, January 19.

Please watch TeamHally.org for details on buying game tickets and shirts to support this fun event. The Team Hally website is the only place shirts will be available – and for a limited time.

Save the date; more details coming soon.

Oct 01
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Prayer Requests for October

By Prayer
  • Praising God for His Word!
  • Praising God for His provision in money raised from the Dirty Dash for bibles and for all the volunteers
  • Pray for K-State Coach Carr, and for players Jada Thorpe and Peyton Williams
  • Pray for Parker Yust, who along with a friend is going to Tanzania in November to TCRC to take Bibles to the orphanage
  • Pray for Bibles going to the homeless in Indiana
Oct 01
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Team Hally Partners with Street Crusaders

By Community
By Team Hally Supporter and Hally’s Aunt, Stephanie Barrett
July of 2019 was exciting for the Indianapolis Team Hally Family. Allow me to set the context:

We all know God works everything together for His good and His glory. This story is just one of many examples of how he orchestrates so many details, and the importance of trusting His upper story. About four years ago, Team Hally began partnering with Brookside Church in the inner city of Indianapolis, providing Bibles for their entire congregation. At that time, Howard Bellamy served as pastor at Brookside and had the opportunity to preach from the pulpit with the Following Jesus Bible in his hand!  I never got to meet Howard in that brief period, but he remembered that Bible. Shortly after Team Hally established the partnership, Howard left Brookside to become Sr. Pastor at The Caring Place Church in Indianapolis while continuing his role as Transportation Manager at Heritage Christian School.

Fast forward to 2019 – I took a job at Heritage Christian School as HR Manager, and my office sits directly across from… you guessed it… the Transportation Office. So, through general conversation and relationship building, I mentioned to Howard that I was involved with a non-profit organization that gives bibles and would his church need some? He asked for more information, and it was in that conversation that he shared with me about his time at Brookside and how he had preached out of THAT VERY BIBLE! He knew Hally’s story and vividly remembered reading about her.

In July 2019, we gave our very first box of Bibles to The Caring Place Church for their group, Street Crusaders. Street Crusaders goes out on foot two to three times per month witnessing, caring for, and now GIVING BIBLES to the homeless on the streets of Indianapolis. Since July, Street Crusaders has given more than 250 Bibles (both English and Spanish translations) to Indianapolis residents!

We are thrilled with this partnership, and continue to pray for changed lives in Central Indiana!

Pictured are supplies used by the Street Crusaders as outreach to the homeless population in Indianapolis.
Oct 01
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Team Hally Provides Bibles to Children’s Mercy Hospital

By Bible Project

Hello Jenny and Yust Family,

We remain so grateful for your family’s kind generosity.

Families are very appreciative when they ask for a Bible and their eyes light up when they are told it is theirs to keep. Earlier this week, a Spanish-speaking father asked me if we had any books in Spanish and when I showed him the books in the library, his choice was a Spanish Bible. I can’t fully describe the look on his face as he sat down on the couch – it was like he was relieved to see an old friend who would offer him great comfort.

Today one of the chaplains came to the chapel to get a Bible to give as a gift to a family who was being discharged after a long stay. I enjoy reflecting how Hally and your family’s gestures of love continue to cascade on many.

Many blessings to you all in this season of autumn!

Take care,
Lisa Blevins – Children’s Mercy Hospital (pictured above – far right, along with Parker and Jenny Yust)

Oct 01
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Reflections on Dirty Dash

By Dirty Dash, K-State Basketball
By Team Hally Supporter and K-State Women’s Basketball Player, Ashley Ray

This is Ashley Ray from the Kansas State Women’s basketball team.

My team and I are thrilled to reflect on our experience with the 2019 Team Hally Dirty Dash. Every year the team, coaches, and I are invited to an amazing event hosted by the Yust family. This remarkable family created this event to honor their daughter, Hally.

The Yust family always shares stories with us on how interested in basketball Hally was, and that her dream was to play for the Kansas State Women’s basketball team. Hally and her family are a very strong family of faith and have always devoted their lives to giving back. Hally also loved sharing Christ with those in need through serving at Center of Grace in Olathe, Kansas, raising money to give Bibles in Haiti, running in marathons, and giving money to any charity that she could. We are so inspired by Hally’s story and how much she accomplished at such a young age.

This event is not only one of the many highlights of our schedule, it is one of the most enjoyable, interactive venues we are fortunate enought to visit every year. The Dirty Dash is exactly what it sounds like: the Yust family mows down a 2.5-mile course filled with various jumps, mud crawls, a mud slide, and especially a small pond contestants must cross to get to the next obstacle in the course.

Volunteering at this event is so rewarding to not only give back, but to see our head coach run in the race. After crossing the finish line, Coach Mittie is caked in mud and splattered with paint. While we all stand and laugh at the free entertainment, he chases after us to try to give us all a really big, muddy hug.

Being a junior at K-State and having experienced the Dirty Dash event for three years, the crowd of people who show up to participate never fails to amaze me. So much joy and hard work goes into this event and it truly shows with the people that are on hand to support it every year.

My teammates and I have really enjoyed getting to know Hally’s family and friends through the years and have created eternal friendships with everyone involved.

As of 2019, the Yust family has officially adopted the Kansas State Women’s basketball team. I would like to say that having your life impacted in such a positive way by a little girl that you never met, is a powerful thing. The Yust family will forever be a part of the K-State family and Hally will always be protected by the Cats. #GoCats

Oct 01
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Do You Know About Amazon Smile?

By Community

AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization (like Team Hally) every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to your favorite charitable organization (like Team Hally).

On your first visit to AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com), you are prompted to select a charitable organization from the list of eligible organizations. Please choose Team Hally.

Oct 01
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Why We Make Time to Get Dirty

By Dirty Dash

by Team Hally Supporter Stacy Graber

The Dirty Dash is a blast! It’s a time to come together for a good cause, run with a team or friends, hear about God’s love, and have a sense of encouragement along the course — whether you are first, last or volunteering.

The Dirty Dash is a fun obstacle course/mud run. There are families who participate together, as well as co-workers and groups of friends. The K-State Women’s Basketball team comes to run and help with many of the obstacles. The day is divided into an adult run and a kids’ run. The kids’ run is for kids less than 13 years old, and features a shorter path.

The adult run is about a 2.5 mile route. It features many obstacles such as Autumn’s web, a plank walk, a creek you jump across, a smoky hill, a pond swim and Trent’s tiring tires – a tire obstacle course.

Some of the obstacles in the kids’ run are climbing hay bales, crawling through small spaces, and doing a mud crawl.  The main obstacle is the mudslide; it’s a crowd favorite. Participants slide down the tall, wet slide and splash-land into a huge pit of mud. It’s a very slushy and very soupy mud.

“We really like that we get to spray the adults with the chalk paint, but we get dirtier than the adults,” says Makenna (one of Stacy’s daughters).

“I like doing the mud crawl, mud slide and everything mud-related,” Lydia (another of Stacy’s daughters) replied when asked what she liked.

Naomi also mentioned that she likes that the event isn’t super competitive and overall it’s a very fun run!

We are so thankful to be part of the Dirty Dash and love to fit it in our schedule each year. On top of having fun, we appreciate the purpose of Team Hally and how the Dirty Dash reaches that purpose to share God’s Word, love God’s people, and encourage God’s people. What better way to do that than listen to Parker Yust share about pressing on toward the prize and being together in a race, while cheering each other on.

Team Hally has made the Dirty Dash free to participate, but we encourage you to raise donations for this cause as well. Every $150 buys a case of bibles. These bibles are used to distribute to kids at Vacation Bible Schools in the summer and are given to those that may not have one. This year Team Hally raised more than $30,000 through individual and team fundraisers.

My son Preston ran the race with a friend, and he says, “It’s fun to have a friend to run by your side so that you can encourage one another when you get tired.”

Be sure to save the date for next year! Grab a friend and come join in the experience! Be blessed!

Oct 01
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October 2019 Newsletter

By Newsletter

Newsletter Topics:

  • Dirty Dash Funds Exceed $30,000
  • Why We Make Time to Get Dirty
  • Do You Know About Amazon Smile?
  • Reflections on Dirty Dash
  • Team Hally Provides Bibles to Children’s Mercy Hospital
  • Team Hally Partners with Street Crusaders
  • Prayer Requests for October
  • K-State Women’s Basketball Game
View October 2019 Newsletter