| A steel bar nearly 2 inches thick was no match for Rich Williams, one of the four members of Team Impact
who visited Body of Christ Church in Raleigh last week. ‘Team Impact is a Christian ministry that preaches the word of God,’ says Siolo Tauaefa,
one of its founders. ‘We are evangelists.’ The feats of strength performed by the members, including lifting logs, breaking cinder blocks and tearing phone books, are tools to get people to come and see the program, Tauaefa says. Williams, who is from Kings Mountain, said bending the
52-inch-long bar ‘is pretty easy, to be honest with you. Look how big and strong we are.’ Williams, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs almost
400 pounds, can bench press 725 pounds. ‘What may be easy for me may be hard for some other guy.’ Williams, 27, says the best thing about
Team Impact ‘is to see people come to Jesus Christ. That is the reason we are there.’ |
