Jackson Counselors Homeschool Sports is a non-profit competitive athletics program serving Mississippi in the Jackson/Clinton/Hinds/Metro/Tri-County and surrounding areas. We have basketball & soccer teams for boys and girls from ages 12-18 (7th-12th grade). We provide basketball training for younger students on occasion.
We are a Christian volunteer organization.
Mission Statement:
We are a Christian ministry and a competitive sports endeavor. Our goal is to provide a Christian competitive sports environment that focuses on stewardship and living a life that is pleasing to the Lord.
Statement of Faith:
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:18-19, Mark 12:29, John 1:4).
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary (Matthew 1:20-23), and is true God and true man (John 1:1, 14).
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, inerrant, and only infallible, authoritative Word of God, which exercises final and ultimate authority in faith and life, over the individual, the Church, and human reason.
We believe that man was created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26), that he sinned and thereby incurred not only the physical death but also spiritual death which is separation from God (Genesis 2:17, 3:6; Romans 5:12); that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and are sinners in thought, word and deed (Romans 3: 10-23).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins to satisfy divine justice (Romans 5:9), was buried and bodily rose from the dead according to the Scriptures (I Corinthians 15:1-4). We believe that He died as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified by grace alone through faith, on the basis of His shed blood (John 3:16, Titus 3:5, Hebrews 7:25). We believe that those so justified are eternally preserved through the present ministries of our risen, ascended, glorified Lord Jesus Christ and of the Holy Spirit (John 10:27-29, Hebrews 7:25).
We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of, and indwell by, the Holy Spirit and, thereby, become the children of God (John 3:3, John 14:16-17). We believe that regenerate man must walk in dependence upon the Holy Spirit in order to please God (Galatians 5:16).
We believe in “that blessed hope” - the personal return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (John 14:1-3, I Thessalonians 4:13-18), and in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the just, and the everlasting punishment of the unjust (I Corinthians 15:51-52, Revelations 20:11-15).
We believe that the Church, composed of all those who truly believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, is the Body and Bride of Christ. We believe that Christ is head of the Body, the Church (Ephesians 1:22-5:22); that all believers are baptized into the Body of Christ by the Holy Spirit, and having become members of one another, we are responsible to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (I Corinthians 12, Ephesians 4:3).
About the Coach
Willis Williams was in Hattiesburg to witness the genesis of homeschool basketball in Mississippi. He served as interim Head and Varsity coach for the Hattiesburg Forerunners organization before moving to Jackson with his family and joining the Jackson Victors. Once coming on board with the Victors, Willis was a successful JV Head Coach and Varsity Assistant. The Lord has blessed Willis with the opportunity to Head Coach Muddy River Counselors basketball. He is the son of Mississippi State Basketball Hall of Fame member, David Williams. He is the father of Trellis Williams of Jackson Victors lore and of the TSJW Network. Willis and his wife of 27 years, Angela, recently graduated their second son King, and their third son, Sun Michael, plays for the Counselors.