Cincinnati Bengals Wives Form Weekly Bible Study Support Group
When Cincinnati Bengals players are putting their bodies on the line on game days, some of their wives are in Bible study praying for their safety.
"We're always praying for health; we are always praying for strength, for keeping them; obviously keeping them protected on the field," Megan Crawford, the wife of Bengals Chaplain LaMorris Crawford, told local station WKRC on Friday. "That's always our first and foremost. And then on top of that, any victory that we can give praise to Jesus, of course. You want that as well."
Sarah Zeitler, the wife of Bengals guard Kevin Zeitler, believes there's a benefit in praying with other NFL wives.
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"It's so nice to have a group of girls that you know are praying over your husband, and the power of prayer is just an incredible thing," she told WKRC.
Hagar Elgendy Peerman, the pregnant wife of Bengals running back Cedric Peerman, also receives support from the Bible study group that pray with her when she's away from the soon-to-be father of her first child.
Last year, the Peermans served as guest speakers during the Faith and Culture Lecture Series at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. There, the football star revealed that he uses the NFL as a platform to get closer to Christ.
"God has used this silly game [football] to conform me to the image of Christ," he said.
The RB was a part of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes organization in college, and became a licensed minister in 2008.
"I didn't wake up one morning and say to myself 'I want to be a minister,'" he said in a Baltimore Ravens report. "It was more so of a journey across the course of my life."
He previously shared his testimony about an injury in 2007 bringing him closer to God while he questioned the future of his career.
"I didn't know if I was going to be able to even play football again," he said. "If I was ever going to be the same type of player that I was able to be before. [God] brought me through all that stuff, and I give Him all the glory. ... I play football to glorify God."
