This past Saturday we attended a baseball tournament with 2 of our AIM guys teams. Alfre from La Cienega played Checo's Cangrejo team and let's just say Alfre's team demolished Checo's team. But it was so much fun, and before the game Jay got to share a few words with the boys after their Bible lesson... Jay shared with them that the States and the Dominican share the same problems. We both have issues with violence and drugs and bad things happening, but luckily we have a solution, God. Jay explained that he is grateful for each of these boys because even though we are two teams against each other in a game, we begin and end the game as 1 team, brothers in Christ. As Jay and I have continued along this journey and this work, God has continued to lay on our hearts the importance that these youth and young adults learn that there is more to life than baseball or sport. There is a big world out there and the majority of them will not get signed to a major league team (one of the primary dreams on the island). So, imagine how much time we all spend practicing our sport and how little time we spend teaching these young boys how to be proper husbands and fathers and leaders of their community. As cliché as it sounds, these children are the next generation, so we need to continue to raise them up and prepare them for this time. Please continue to pray for this island and these people!
On another note, we played "Llanta de Fortuna" in ESL this past Wednesday... Wheel of Fortune (or when actually translated it was Rim of Fortune...but we will just say Wheel). It was so much fun, but I must admit slightly frustrating because they kept trying to guess the entire word with no letters or 1 "E" or 1 "A". We were like just guess a letter, any letter, and they would respond with "pass". No, you can't pass, you have to guess a letter! :) But it was so much fun and they worked on their verbs. We also made a crossword for them to complete which again was interesting as the majority of them have never done one. They were like, "how can there be two 13's?" We would explain one goes across and the other down, but it was still mindboggling to them that this could be possible. One of our guys actually turned his crossword 45 degrees so his letters would be written toward the bottom of the paper (rather than just writing the letters one above the other in the "down" columns, he wanted them to be correctly horizontal together). One of those things that just makes me smile.
And some pictures...
Aubrey with Ruth Ester this past Saturday during the baseball games (Alfre's little girl).
After the baseball game and morning...out cold!
And something very special for our AIM family... last week after the meeting our guys were able to pray over Gabriella, Rafael's daughter. She has sickle cell and has been having lots of pain, nausea and bleeding in the past several months. Please continue to lift her up, Rafael and her family throughout this time. As Rafael told us yesterday, "I have to give her to God." So please say a few extra prayers for this situation.
God is light. In Him there is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5
(thanks Sarah Morris for the verse!) :)
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