Update: Special Homecoming Held at The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio

For 31 days last fall, Grayson Russell was an inpatient at The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio. During October 2018, he was still in the hospital when his school’s big homecoming game rolled around. Instead of joining his friends at the homecoming game and dance, in an awesome move of solidarity, those friends came to him.

They celebrated in suits and gowns and ate in the hospital cafeteria. They took photos in the hospital lobby and they sat down and prayed over their meal. The setting was certainly unconventional for a homecoming dinner, but it was memorable. Especially because when his team won the game Friday night, his teammates brought him the game ball Saturday morning at the hospital. The San Antonio Christian School started an entire campaign called “War Lion” in honor of the Russell family’s allegiance to SACS Lions and Auburn University (War Eagle). They printed shirts, and…