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Jul 19
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Summer 2022 Highlights from Team Hally

By Bible Project, Community, Dirty Dash, K-State Basketball, Newsletter, Prayer

BIBLES TO OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES

June 1 truly launched our summer distribution of Team Hally Bibles as we took 800 Bibles to Heartland traveling day camps to be given out at over 50 churches in Kansas and Missouri. The staff was so excited to be sharing the Gospel throughout the summer with the children who would be attending their camps.

In addition, over the next six weeks, we also partnered with many churches in the Kansas City area to provide another 800 Bibles to local VBS programs, backyard Bible Clubs, and camps. One local church member said that they had always wanted to provide Bibles for each of their children attending VBS but did not have the funds and that these Bibles are truly a gift from God!

BIBLES AROUND THE NATION

In addition to opening doors locally, God has also provided several opportunities in other states. Pennington Park Church in Indiana has a Backyard Bible Club and it was so exciting to see them ask for 150 Bibles in May and then a month later need another 150! God truly does exceedingly, abundantly more than we can ask or imagine (Ephesians 3:20). Then further south God opened up the door in Alabama. Several Bibles were given to McDonald’s employees who had recently heard the Gospel and were beginning a 31-day Bible reading plan to explore their faith. Team Hally loves that God is an individual God who cares about a personal relationship with EACH person! Whether Team Hally gives 1000 Bibles at a big camp or a grandma sends one Bible to her grandchild in another state, God is using it.

BIBLES TO GUATEMALA

At the end of July, a group from Worden Church near Baldwin, Kansas will be headed to Guatemala for a mission trip and 6 Spanish Bibles are headed there also! We would love for you to pray over the individuals who will receive these Bibles and consider if your church has any upcoming mission trips that Team Hally could provide Bibles.

FCA ELITE BASKETBALL CAMP

On Tuesday, July 26 God is truly providing an opportunity to bring together all the things that encompass Team Hally!  Bibles, Basketball, and Believers!  The past few months Team Hally has been given the amazing blessing to partner with Fellowship of Christian Athletes Olathe to give Bibles at several FCA events including this upcoming elite Basketball Camp.  This camp will also include Ayoka Lee and other staff/players from K-State as well as Team Hally family and friends. Truly Hally’s love for Jesus and basketball is brought together in this event. As Psalm 139:13-14 says, we are fearfully and wonderfully made and God truly gives each of us a passion and skills which are meant to be used for God’s glory. Team Hally is providing 100 Bibles this day! Please pray that the Gospel will clearly be given and that many of the young children attending the camp will receive Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior and then be obedient to make disciples of themselves (Matthew 28:19-20).

K-STATE PRAYER PARTNERS

Team Hally is super excited to be partnering once again for the 2022-2023 with the K-State Women’s Basketball Team! Our partnership with K-State began 8 years ago when Hally went to heaven simultaneously as K-State hired a new basketball coach, Jeff Mittie. Neither Coach Mittie nor the Yust family would have ever imagined what God had in store for our two organizations! The partnership started out because the Yust family wanted to honor Hally in two ways:  giving Bibles and supporting Hally’s passion for basketball through a scholarship to the K-State Women’s Basketball program. This relationship has developed into a “family.” Team Hally support the team by attending a women’s basketball game, sending the team and staff cards of encouragement throughout the season, and prayer partners for each player and staff.  The K-State team in turn attends our Dirty Dash, helps run muddy shoes back and forth for the runners, and some of the staff actually run the race! God has continued to grow this partnership in such an encouraging and meaningful way beyond our biggest dreams.

We are putting together the prayer partners for each of the players and staff by August 1!  If you would like to be a part of this impactful ministry please message us by July 28.

DIRTY DASH

Dirty Dash is a 2.5 mile obstacle challenge course benefitting Team Hally. Bring out your friends and family and get ready to run, walk, crawl, wade, slip, and slide as Dirty Dash gets you absolutely filthy. Each year we dream up and build creative obstacles, so there’s always a chance you’ll see something brand new. From start to finish this is an event you don’t want to miss! Register your family or make a donation by visiting our official Dirty Dash page.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Team Hally would love to have you partner with us in prayer for the following:

  1. FCA Elite Basketball Camp-campers to hear the Gospel and begin reading their new Hally Bibles
  2. 2022 Dirty Dash-Gospel to be clearly shared and provision for Bibles
  3. K-State partnership-open doors to encourage the team spiritually!
  4. Open doors to give Bibles
  5. Protection for Team Hally as the Gospel goes forth around the world
Jun 21
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Dirty Dash 2022 Registration is Now Open

By Bible Project, Bible Study, Dirty Dash, Newsletter

Dirty Dash is Sunday, September 11th

Dirty Dash is a 2.5 mile obstacle challenge course benefitting Team Hally. Bring out your friends and family and get ready to run, walk, crawl, wade, slip, and slide as Dirty Dash gets you absolutely filthy. From start to finish this is an event you don’t want to miss! Visit our Dirty Dash page for all the details.

The Bible Project

Our mission is to provide Bibles to anyone who wants to read God’s word, including individuals, Sunday Schools, Vacation Bible Schools, local charities, schools, neighbors, prisoners, hospitals, groups overseas and many others.

We’ve donated 2,903 Bibles so far in 2022!

If your church has a summer Bible program, let us know and we can provide Bibles to these precious children.

Book of John 21-Week Challenge

Team Hally is excited to announce our Book of John 21 Week Challenge! Join us as we read one chapter of John each week for the next 21 weeks. This 21-week plan goes chapter-by-chapter through John’s gospel and is perfect for both new and seasoned believers to take a deeper look into the Great Story that’s All About Jesus. Will you take the challenge?

Sep 18
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Registration is Now Open!

By Dirty Dash

It’s time to get dirty!

Registration is open for the 2020 Dirty Dash, taking place on Sunday, September 20. The adult dash is at 1 p.m. with the kids’ dash at 2 p.m.

Special health and safety measures will be in place this year. Please do not participate if you are sick or have COVID symptoms. Please social distance throughout the event, and please wear a mask.

Free t-shirt if you register early!

This event is rain or shine! If you don’t feel like getting dirty, you can always just come and cheer on your favorite walker or runner.

One hundred percent of the proceeds from Dirty Dash benefit Team Hally in its mission to distribute bibles.

Please follow this link to register or donate: http://bit.ly/2020DirtyDashRegistration 

May 26
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Save the Date for Dirty Dash 2020

By Dirty Dash

The Fun is Still On!

That’s right – we’re still planning to get dirty in September. We’ll have registration details coming soon, so please: save the date!

We might do things a little differently this year to help ensure everyone’s health and safety, but you can still count on a big day of fun and fellowship. We hope to see you September 26 in Spring Hill, Kansas!

Feb 08
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Bible Study

WELCOME TO 2020 WITH TEAM HALLY!

By Bible Study, Dirty Dash

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23

As God has revealed a brand new ministry year for Team Hally, we are so excited to see what He will do with each of us, where He will send Bibles this year, and what new opportunities to share Hally’s story with the world will arise. I’m amazed already how God has shown us some open doors this month that we didn’t expect!

Our prayer team was diligently seeking the Lord in how to share our story with the crowd at the annual Team Hally game which took place on Sunday, January 19. Who would have thought that a beanie would be an open door!

This year several Team Hally members helped distribute beanies (hats) that read “Team Hally” on one side and had a K-State powercat logo on the other. The fact that K-State allowed this to happen is almost a miracle in itself, and then God allowed it to be a very cold, windy day so when fans arrived inside the gates they really wanted a warm beanie!

We distributed all 500 beanies in about 15 minutes and had many, many fans who were disappointed they didn’t get one! However, God didn’t stop there! This was the first time that many, many fans were asking what Team Hally was and why we were giving away free beanies. Then when the Yust family attended the Lady Wildcats next home game, there were several fans wearing the beanies. Please continue to pray that some of the fans who received a Team Hally beanie will look us up and maybe even get excited about partnering with us to give out Bibles!

Some other awesome opportunities that we all can look forward to in 2020 are:

  • Delivery of Bibles to a new Spanish-speaking church in Olathe
  • Partnering with new churches for VBS in the Kansas City area, Wichita, Manhattan and Topeka, as well as many churches with whom we already partner
  • Bibles being provided to several mission trips (including Romania and possibly Rwanda)
  • 2020 Dirty Dash – September 26
  • Continued prayer partnership with K-State women’s basketball team
  • Continued Team Hally prayer ministry
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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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!

Sep 23
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Team Hally Dirty Dash 2019

By Dirty Dash

Dirty Dash Funds Exceed $30,000

Many Thanks to Our Supporters! More than 400 people came out to get dirty and cheer on the runners/walkers at the September 21 Dirty Dash for Team Hally. Teams and individuals raised more than $30,000 to continue to fund Team Hally’s mission to distribute bibles. As you may imagine, we needed a lot of volunteers (thank you!) to make the day a success!

Special thanks to our Dirty Dash team captains and also to the K-State Women’s Basketball team for making the trek from Manhattan. Click to enjoy a video about the team’s involvement.

Please click for hundreds of photos from the Dirty Dash.

Plans are underway for Dirty Dash 2020. Watch TeamHally.org for the date and details!

Jul 17
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Registration is Open for Dirty Dash

By Dirty Dash

September 21 is the date for Dirty Dash 2019!

We love to spread awareness and raise funds for Team Hally through the Dirty Dash event, a 2.5 mile mud run (and a fun run for kids too!).

Registration is free. Please click to register today to receive a free Dirty Dash t-shirt. Please note: you can register as a walker/runner, as an onlooker or as a volunteer.

We thank you for your participation in this annual event.

You can also donate to Team Hally to help ensure the ministry is able to purchase Bibles for 2019 and beyond. We thank you for your continued support.