Woodlawn Small Group Study

Woodlawn Small Group Study It's 1973, years after the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, but racial prejudice and tensions still run high in the deep south, especially in the town of Birmingham, Alabama. When the all white school of Woodlawn High is forced to integrate five hundred black students bused from the other side of town, the school is set to explode. And explode it does. Distrust between teachers and students runs high, fights send kids to the hospital, and things are not looking all that great for the school-- let alone the anger filled football team. When Hank, a outsider who's life was radically transformed at a revival meeting, steps in and asks to speak to the team the first answer is a definite "No!" As things get progressively worse, however, the coach finally relents, and the result is truly remarkable transformation. Almost the entire team-- black and white-- give their lives over to Christ, and beginning acting as, well what they were supposed to be in the first p