- December 4, 2025
Matanzas and FPC players, coaches, students, administrators and Flagler County School Board members pose for a group photo after the Football Sunday service at Palm Coast United Methodist Church. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Flagler Schools superintendent LaShakia Moore speaks during Palm Coast United Methodist Church's Football Sunday service on Aug. 10. Courtesy photo
Palm Coast United Methodist Church Pastor Kevin James used football analogies in his message at the church's annual "Football Sunday." Photo by Brent Woronoff
Flagler Palm Coast players, coaches, students, administrators and Flagler Schools Superintendent LaShakia Moore pose for a group photo after the Football Sunday service at Palm Coast United Methodist Church. Courtesy photo
Matanzas football coach Matt Forrest reads the Daily Message at Palm Coast United Methodist Church's Football Sunday service on Aug. 10. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC football coach Patrick Turner speaks during Palm Coast United Methodist Church's Football Sunday service on Aug. 10. Courtesy photo
Former Flagler Schools Superintendent Jim Tager and wife Jodi attend the Football Sunday service at Palm Coast United Methodist Church wearing their Cleveland Browns jerseys. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Flagler Schools Superintendent LaShakia Moore speaks during Palm Coast United Methodist Church's Football Sunday service on Aug. 10. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Pastor Kevin James wore his Miami Dolphins jersey, and many congregants wore jerseys of their own favorite football teams. Flagler Schools Superintendent LaShakia Moore wore a custom-made jersey with Flagler printed on the front and logos for the Matanzas Pirates and Flagler Palm Coast Bulldogs on each shoulder.
It was Football Sunday at Palm Coast United Methodist Church. The church honored the high school football teams for both Matanzas and FPC on Sunday, Aug. 10, at the 10:30 a.m. service.
Moore and head football coaches Matt Forrest of Matanzas and Patrick Turner of FPC spoke. School Board member Derek Barrs delivered a prayer for the students, the teachers and the community with students returning to school the following day. And a player from each team — Ehimen “Heman” Adjede of FPC and Javonte Patton of Matanzas — recited a scripture reading.
Forrest read the Daily Message from his phone: “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only.” He had not reviewed the message in advance.
Turner pointed out that in Philippians 3:2, the Apostle Paul warns to "watch out for those dogs,” and joked that the Pirates weren’t left out when the verse also mentioned “evildoers.”
During the final praise song, singers tossed footballs to each team. After the service, players, coaches, students, administrators and School Board members posed for a group photo.
