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Coach Fabian Quiroz || The Caleb Gordon Podcast

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Fabian says the generational curse of fatherlessness ends with his son EJ.

1. The Christian Podcast Community episode with Coach Fabian Quiróz focuses on coaching, fatherhood, and Christian discipleship in Bartlesville. 2. Fabian Quiróz is the WCS football coach and track coach, and Caleb Gordon hosts the conversation as a Christian podcaster and parent. 3. The episode asks what coaching is for when football ends, and Fabian answers that it should form biblically sound young men. 4. Fabian explains that he came to Bartlesville after dating his wife during June 2020, when the pandemic forced him to think through long distance. 5. He says she moved back to Bartlesville from Columbus, Texas, while he was preparing to leave Pine Cove and go back to Dallas. 6. He describes four months of long-distance dating, with trips to Bartlesville every two weeks, before moving in October 2020. 7. Fabian says he started working at VOM after the move and has stayed in Bartlesville since then. 8. He says teaching and coaching are his calling, and he traces that calling to high school when coaches became father figures. 9. He names three coaches he still texts and says they stayed involved during his engagement, marriage, and the birth of his son. 10. Fabian says he noticed college athletes speaking openly about Jesus, including phrases like “my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” and he connects that to coaching influence. 11. He says football will eventually fail every player, so he wants to point boys to Christ, who will not fail them. 12. He argues that the same pattern is happening in public schools, where Christian coaches can act as missionaries without forcing the gospel. 13. He says he accepted Christ around age 9 or 10 after a church in Irving offered free VBS, food, and rides through apartment-complex outreach. 14. He names MacArthur Boulevard Baptist Church and associate pastor Darren Mayer as the place and person who walked him through baptism and faith. 15. Fabian says his mom, dad, and brother also came to know the Lord, even though his extended Mexican family reacted strongly when they stopped going to mass. 16. He says his dad went to prison when Fabian was 10 and did not get out until he was 18, which shaped his understanding of forgiveness and reconciliation. 17. He says fatherhood has made him think about what his parents and in-laws did well and where they failed. 18. He says he wants his son Elijah James, called EJ, to never know the pain of an absent father and to see prayer, Scripture, and presence at home. 19. The conversation stays warm and conversational, with Caleb Gordon adding personal examples about praying for his children and asking about summer football plans. 20. Listeners who like Christian coaching, fatherhood stories, and discipleship language will get the most from this episode, while people wanting a purely X-and-O football talk may skip it.

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