Retired Vicksburg High School football coach Alonzo Stevens is hoping for a stadium full of fans Wednesday night at Balzi Stadium. 

Beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday, St. Aloysius High School will be hosting Warren County’s third annual Fields of Faith Fellowship of Christian Athletes rally.

“I hope that we can get all of our schools participating, especially our public schools,” said Stevens, the West Central District coordinator for Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

The guest speaker for the event is FCA spokesman Antonio Wright, who was on the Hinds Community College 1994 NCJAA national championship football team. In 1997, Wright was paralyzed from the waist down in a car crash, Stevens said.

Wrights brings a message that Stevens has preached his entire career as a coach.

“You have to understand that it’s bigger than just win/loss. It’s to seek the Lord,” Stevens said. “You’re going to end this (sports career) some day. I don’t care how good you are.”

The event also features at least one coach and student from all four of the county’s high schools giving Christian testimonials, Stevens said.

“It’s been great to see these guys and girls grow up through this thing,” he said.

Fields of Faith is a student-led event. Students invite their own classmates and teammates to meet on an athletic field — a neutral, interdenominational rally point — to hear fellow students and ministers share their faith though testimony.