PRAYER

Praise God for:

- Carol's family and their loving heart
- His amazing revival through AIS in the world
- This upcoming week, SMTC (Sports Ministry Trainning Course), where we can spiritually grow and get wisdom and skills for ministry.


Pray for:

- Safety as coaches all over the world travel here for the camps
- God to equip the coaches during SMTC, and keep them focused on Him
- Open hearts of the kids that will be going to the camps
- God's continual provision for the Spain ministry

God's love through it all

So I'm officially in Cleveland!!
Took me like a week to land in my mind!

It's exciting to see what God has been doing this week, the family I'm living with is just incredible! God has openned great opportunities to love on them in words and in actions, and to also challenge them and talk more about faith which has been great! I've learned so much from them too!

Last weekend, I went with my host family to help their son Adam and his wife Erica move. It openned great opportunities, they just didn't get how a Guatemalan had come there to help them move, jeje, but it was awesome that I got to share my testimony with them! God really uses everything if we have a willing heart!

And the weekend before that, my host mom, Nancy, came to church with me, and she liked it very much, she even mentioned that she might keep coming with me, I was just blown away!! I know how this is also not only encouraging to me but also so encouraging for the rest of the family.

It's just incredible to see God at work! Here I am feeling so blessed to be living with them, how they just openned their home for me, are housing me and feeding me and taking care of me like I'm part of the family, and then how they turn back and tell me how they feel blessed to have me there, and how God is using me to get them closer to Him, it just points out again how is so not about me but all about Him!

It's also so incredible to see how much God is doing through this ministry Ambassadors In Sport, and It's such a privilege to be a part of this. We got together to pray for all the work around the world, and I was so amazed. There is such a revival going on in South Africa, Brazil, Haiti, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Spain and I can just keep going, they are ministring in so many other countries, but overall it's just amazing to be part of that, and you made this posible, because God used you to either strengthen me, sharpen me, encourage me, guide me, love me, maybe even more!! God has so graciously surrounded me with such godly people and I'm so blessed he put you in my path!

So I really want to thank you in advance for your continual prayers and support! I pray that reading this can somehow encourage you and strengthen your faith!
God bless you!

“The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields.” Luke 10:2

Dear Friends and Family:

Thank you so much for your prayers! It’s such a joy to see God working in so many people’s lives, the harvest is great! And we have to continue working as a family, as a body, with one purpose, that being to glorify our Father, sharing of his love, living out his Word!

COACHING TOUR 2006

“But seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all this things will be given to you as well.” Mathew 6:33
It was impossible not no meditate on this verse every day during those 5 weeks of soccer camps, since the kids had to memorize it, meaning they would say it over and over again. I could only stay for two weeks, but God took care of it all by seeking Him first! Without saying a word a coach approached me and offered to support me for the rest of the weeks. Jesus sure knows how to make his Word come alive in our lives.

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2
What a great picture of the unity in the body of Christ! How are we to be salt and light? In the way we love one another, not only in words but also in actions. Someone is watching you always, and kids not only watch, but imitate, they embrace and follow, that’s why they are the example Jesus sets for us, by becoming like children. So it was amazing to see their joy increase and develop more Christ-like attitudes as a result of them knowing Jesus better and noticing the harmony in the coaches, and in the teams.

GUATEMALA 2007

After the coaching tour, I graduated from College in Fort Lauderdale and went home to Guatemala for a few months. I had been home about a month when I invited my 12 year old nephew, Chris (in picture), to go on a youth retreat. I wasn’t going on the retreat, so it was hard for him to decide to go by himself because he is shy. But praise God, at the very last minute he agreed, and there he received Jesus into his heart. God then laid it on my heart, and on one of my friend’s, to get together every Saturday to play soccer and invite my nephew to be involved. We invited others for friendly soccer games through which we were able to build relationships and share the love of Christ and pray with them. After the game on the second Saturday, we were hanging out and noticed that a play was happening at a nearby church. So I invited my 11 year old nephew Luis, his mom, my nephew Chris, and his 14 year old neighbor Jose to go. The play was about the life of Jesus, and though we were sitting on the second floor all the way in the back, when the pastor gave an invitation to those who wanted to receive Jesus to come to the front, Luis and Jose got up. Not quite sure of what they were doing, they walked down the stairs all the way to the front. I was so surprised! I couldn’t hold my tears as I saw God’s faithfulness and their willing hearts! The best part was to later hear Chris explain how they now have the Holy Spirit inside guiding them; he just kept sharing his testimony! I know that Chris’ faith was strengthened in a powerful way, and I know it has strengthened mine! We just obey God, He does the rest!


CLEVELAND AND SPAIN 2007

My upcoming plans are to move to Cleveland to do the coaching tour, get further training and head to Spain to work in full time ministry there! Can’t wait to start sending you all the wonderful and challenging things God will do now!


PRAYER

Praise God for:- All the kids that got saved during the coaching camp
- The salvation of Chris, Luis and Jose
- His faithfulness in using us, working in us and through us

Prayer for:- Those who got saved, for strength and guidance to continue their walk
- Open hearts in the next coaching tour
- Provision to go work in the ministry in Spain
- God to soften the hearts of the people in Spain

Jenna is the cute blond girl in the middle of this group picture, which was my first camp of the tour. One day, when we were in bible time she had all the kids attention when she began telling us all how there was this boy in her school that would steal her lunch every day, “I didn’t wanted to get the boy in trouble, so I just went home one day and asked Jesus what to do?” The next day she asked her mom to pack two lunches for her, mom didn’t ask why. At lunch time, before the boy could steal her, she went to him and said “Hey, I brought this lunch for you”, all the kids were dying to know the boy’s response, Jenna told us he was so surprised, then they began talking and became friends. Jenna says the boy asked her why she would bring him lunch after him treating her that way; she replied, “Jesus told me”.

Hay verdadera victoria y libertad cuando nos rendimos completamente ante Dios. Cuando renunciamos a nuestros deseos y pensamientos para conocer y seguir Sus deseos y pensamientos para nuestra vida, El sobrepasa nuestras expectativas, impactando tanto nuestro interior como nuestro alrededor. “Así, pues, cualquiera de vosotros que no renuncie a todo lo que posee, no puede ser mi discípulo.” Lucas 14:33
There is truly victory and freedom in our total surrender to God. When we give up our wants and thoughts in order to know and pursue His wants and thoughts for our life, He will certainly surpass all expectations, impacting you and your surroundings. “So you cannot become My disciple without giving up everything for my sake.” Luke 14:33