We sent the women's basketball tour home on Monday and I think I am just now catching my breath from that. To see God's faithfulness and greatness at work throughout the past two weeks was an incredible end to my journey here in Mexico. Doors were opened left and right as a result of this tour. Mexican athletes are now aware of AIA's presence on campus and know there is a spiritual outlet available to them- something that is huge for our ministry getting established. These girls are starting to figure out and ask what it really means to use their sport as both a platform to worship the God who created us, as well as spread the Gospel.
We are meeting with one basketball player already, teaching her the very principles that AIA stands for and explaining what it means to bring God into every facet of your life... not just church on Sundays. But to really explore every part of your life and see where we have made room for God to work in and through- whether it be your school, family and friend relationships, sport, whatever- God wants each of us and all of us- our whole life.
Anyways, I could list the things resulting from the tour for days but I just want you to know that God showed up in a big, big way. There is nothing that we could have planned that would have been any better than the way God took these two weeks and make them exactly what he desired to see through all these girls. Things did not exactly go as we had planned, but I've learned that's not so much the point. The point is that we allowed God to work his good and perfect plan.
Thinking about all that God has done this week makes me smile and rest assured that although I didn't know God's plan for me in coming down to Mexico for a year, I now am confident that he worked in ways that I did not previously believe were possible.
The stories I have heard and witnessed, the people I have met and love, the transformation in my own faith: these are the reasons I am here. To try and say thank-you to the people who have made this year possible for me would be a waste of words because there simply aren't any with enough depth to express how grateful I am for this time. I have been impacted beyond my wildest dreams and I will honestly never forget this time and these people. I have to quit now because if I start crying my roommates are going to cry and then we will be good for nothing for the rest of the day ;)
My point is this: I love this place. I am thankful to God for each of you. I have been changed and I pray that I will be able to display the love of God in the way that I have experienced it down here. It was definitely a leap of faith, but one that I feel is well worth the risk.
