KC Royals GM guest speaker at North Missouri FCA Banquet
Constitution-Tribune, Thu Nov 13, 2008, C-T Photo/ Amanda McKay

CAPTION: Kansas City Royals General Manager Dayton Moore was the guest speaker at the sixth annual Northwest Missouri FCA banquet held at the Chillicothe United Methodist Church. The event raised over $39,000 through table donations, pledges and donations. Moore, GM for the Royals since 2006, spoke about how he came to Kansas City.

Dayton Moore, Kansas City Royals Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations/General Manager, was the guest speaker at the sixth annual North Missouri Fellowship of Christian Athletes Home Team banquet held at the Chillicothe United Methodist Church Thursday, November 6. FCA raised over $39,000 for the evening, through table sponsors, pledges and donations.

The call to order and the Pledge of Allegiance, lead by North Missouri FCA leadership board member Dale Wallace, started the program. Dale Wallace also gave the invocation. After dinner had been served, Pastor Alan Brock, of Calvary Baptist Church, welcomed everyone in attendance.

Tony Clark, 2007 North Missouri FCA Volunteer of the Year, presented the 2008 award. The North Missouri Volunteer of the Year recipient must: Demonstrate FCA leadership and service for the school year; demonstrate a consistent personal relationship with Christ; demonstrate the character traits of a Christian role model of FCA; demonstrate the commitment of time, talent and resources of FCA ministry; and demonstrate faithfulness in serving their local church. The 2008 Volunteer of the Year was Robin Tarpening, adult chapter co-chair at Brookfield.

Scouting reports were then given by: Erin Gilliland, Chillicothe Middle School; Sarah Cast, Princeton High School; and Stan Baldwin, Chillicothe High School. Erin Gilliland is the daughter of Kathy Gilliland and Joe Gilliland of Chillicothe and is in the seventh grade at Chillicothe Middle School. She attends church at the United Methodist Church and is active in the middle school youth group. She joined FCA as a sixth grader at CMS and has attended FCA leadership camps the past two summers. She is currently on the leadership team for her huddle at CMS. Erin’s goal is to continue to attend FCA camps until she can one day be a huddle leader and lead others as she has been led. Sarah Cast is a junior at Princeton High School. She is a member of the United Methodist Church and has been actively involved in the FCA Huddle for the last five years. Stan Baldwin is currently assistant huddle coach for the Chillicothe High School campus ministry. He earned his education degrees from Trenton Junior College, Northeast Missouri State University and the University of Missouri. Stan has taught and coached football and track at Warrenton and Liberty schools and has been teaching at Chillicothe High School for the past 21 years. This is Stan’s ninth year in coaching softball at CHS, two as an assistant coach and seven as the head coach. Stan and his wife Stephanie have three daughters, Sally, Sarah and Samantha and they attend the Chillicothe United Methodist Church in Chillicothe.

Tony Clark also presented the Athlete of the Year presentation. This year’s nominees were: Marie Milford, Northwestern R-1, Sindy Chavez, Southwest Livingston County R-1 and Kesley Young, South Harrison. The award was presented to Sindy Chavez.

An area update was given by North Missouri Area Director Todd Mathew.

Alan Brock introduced the guest speaker of the night, Dayton Moore, General Manager for the Kansas City Royals. Dayton Moore was named Senior VP of Baseball Operations/General Manager in May of 2006 when he officially assumed his duties, becoming the sixth general manager in KC Royals franchise history on June 8. Moore, a native of Wichita, Kan., brought his resume to the Royals in 2006. He had previously worked for the Atlanta Braves organization since 1994, most recently serving as Assistant General Manager/Baseball Operations since Aug. 2005. Moore is a leader in the Kansas City community and was named to the 2007 board of directors of the NAIA’s Champions of character program, which instills an understanding of character values in sports and provides practical tools for student-athletes, coaches and parents to use in modeling exemplary character traits.

Moore spoke about his personal life and how he came to be in Kansas City. He talked about the process it took to come back to the Midwest and he also talked about life in general. He shared what he believed was important in life — things geared toward character, morals and making the right choices and setting a good example. Moore also fielded questions from the crowd about Royals baseball and his journey.

The closing remarks and benediction were given by Alan Brock.