Tebowing: Would You Drop Your Vacation for a Friend in Need?
Tim Tebow is showing us once again what it looks like to put your faith first, and it's so much more than just pausing to pray after a touchdown.
This time the former football star was enjoying a little R&R in the Bahamas when he heard his high school football buddy had been shot during the terrorist attack in Orlando.
CNN reports Tebow left his vacation in the Bahamas and rushed to Florida just to see Rodney Sumter Jr. in the hospital.
The pair played football together at Nease High School in Florida. As Tebow went on to win the Heisman Trophy and two national championships for the Florida Gators, Sumter pursued his football career at Jacksonville University.
Sumter posted a photo of Tebow from his visit on Instagram with the caption: "My high school quarterback left the Bahamas to come and see me. Tebow has always been an awesome person."
CNN reports Sumter was working as a bartender at the Pulse night club the night of the attack. Both of Sumter's arms were shot, and he was shot once in his back, half an inch from his spinal cord.
The Orlando attack was the deadliest terrorist shooting in U.S. history, leaving 49 people dead and 53 others wounded.
After the initial attack, CNN reports that Sumter was saved by nursing student Joshua McGill as he lay wounded behind a car.
McGill used both of their shirts to put pressure on Sumter's wounds and then road with Sumter to the hospital.
"I promise you, God's got this. You'll be okay," McGill recalled saying to Sumter when talking to CNN's Don Lemon.
Tebow has always lived his faith in public and not just on the football field.
He's well known for showing compassion to anyone in need of a little kindness. In fact, CBN News reported last year when Tebow helped to give children in the Philippines a second chance at life.
The former NFL quarterback, helped build a new children's hospital located in the poverty-stricken the southern Philippines.
