My encounter with Gods love in Brazil
- By: chris lord (Is this you?)
- Created on: 09/19/2007
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I agreed to go on the mission trip to Brazil because now that the seniors had graduated we lacked any form of student leadership. My youth minister, Tony, saw this problem and he asked me to take the role of a leader. This two week long service project in Brazil included traveling to schools, recreation centers, and churches in San Paulo, Brazil; Tony assured me that it would strengthen my prowess as a leader.
In each place our mission team traveled, we taught American sports and shared the love of Christ through our testimonies.We began teaching Ultimate Frisbee to a group of kids around the age of ten. After we had finished explaining and evaluating their Ultimate Frisbee form, our mission team set the kids down and I shared the message of Christ with them through our translator. "I accepted Christ into my life around the age of ten, but I never really understood what that relationship meant.
"When I was twelve, my father died and my relationship with Christ was shattered by that grief. As a result of his death," I continued, "I lost faith in God. Throughout my middle school years I felt lost and depressed, and I had no purpose.
"I had lost my father, and I needed a mentor." Then I shared that it took three long years of effusive love and constant encouragement from my friends and family to bring me back to church. Finally after my freshman year of high school, I was convinced to go to Ridgedale Youth Music and Worship Team Camp.
At that camp I felt a pull on my heart, a longing for something more, something that was real. So instead of participating in the games with all the other students, I went to my room, sat down on my bed, and read my Bible. One passage that I read set my heart on fire for God, 1 Peter 5:7, 'Cast all your cares on him for he truly cares for you.' After that moment alone with Christ I began to live my life set apart from the rest of the world; a life to serve him.
Afterward the kids left; we walked towards the gate at the end off the soccer field.
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