A trip to the midwest

From Friday, May 11 to Friday, May 25th I was on a trip to the Mid-West. First I visited my sister in Chicago and did some handy-man stuff on her 100-year-old house. I had a great time with my niece and nephew who are both in college. One day we went to a park on a beautiful day and played pick-up soccer with a bunch of kids. Another day we went to a great rummage sale at their church: the fill-a-trash-bag-for-$5 kind!

The next stop was Twinsburg, Ohio where Ambassadors in Sport’s International Headquarters are. One goal of this visit was to meet with the Director of the AIS ministry in South Africa. They have started several non-residential soccer schools in several countries in Africa and are looking for ways to make these schools sustainable.

We also discussed the visit I will make to South Africa to see first-hand how they run their soccer academies as well as their prison ministry. In August, one of the leaders from South Africa will visit me in Haiti to see how we organize our 90 soccer teams.
After that Carol met me in Kansas City to attend a 5-day training at Crossworld. It was the first time we had seen the new headquarters, and it was exciting to meet new people and hear about what God is doing all over the world.

There were missionaries from Senegal, France, Germany, the Ukraine, and Ecuador in our training group. After we presented our ministry one of our fellow missionaries got so excited about what we were doing that they sponsored a team in the tournament! This was very encouraging to us!