McKenzie, Tenn. — Bethel University was one of three Tennessee schools who took part in a service project that benefited Luke’s FastBreaks #NoMoreHospitalGowns. The project, spearheaded by the American Football Coaches Wives Association (AFCWA), included gathering donated t-shirts from schools and football teams in all 50 states. The group’s goal was to get shirts from every state and to get at least 500 shirts. They met their state goal and collected 700 shirts and delivered them to the Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte.
Luke’s FastBreaks began when Luke, now a 12-year-old cancer survivor, was nine and receiving treatment in the hospital as he fought Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Luke told his parents wearing hospital gowns made him “feel more sick”– he just wanted to feel normal. Luke and his parents cut up the sides of his t-shirts then sewed in snaptape on each side. Luke wore his new shirts to treatment at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Soon after, the other pediatric patients started asking where they could get one, and Luke’s FastBreaks was born. https://lukesfastbreaks.org/
Bethel University faculty member Lindsay Elliott attended the AFCWA convention and made sure that Bethel’s donated shirts were part of the project. During the convention, Elliott was elected to the AFCWA Board of Directors.
Photo cutline: Shirts given to Luke’s FastBreaks line the table at the American Football Coaches Wives Association convention. Bethel University shirts were part of the gift.
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