Saturday, November 12, 2016

Traveling Home!

 The 2016 Mission trip is about to conclude.  We are on a bus traveling to watch the “Torros” professional Dominican baseball game.  Tomorrow morning we will have a team meeting and then pack and start the journey home.  Please pray for our travel tomorrow.

Today was a “Beisbol” day.  We played a double-header, winning both of them 6-1 and 3-0.  That makes our coaches Matt and Loy undefeated!  We did have free substitution and also had some Dominicans play in our second game.  In other words we had fun.  We started the day after breakfast with 2 players saying they weren’t sure if they could play.  The week has been a marathon and with different food and sleep schedules and our baseball missionaries were simply tired.  But…!!! after we started playing they dug deep and got in the game.  They ended the day racing the Dominicans in short sprints after playing 12 innings!  Of course it was hot but the players that started the day tired ended the day with more with more energy than they started with.  Our baseball missionaries were simply awesome!

After the games we served our opponents lunch and then sat among them.  The wonderful lunches were made by our other teammates … the ladies and adults.  They enjoyed ham sandwiches with chips, apples, a fancy cookie and fruit juice.  After lunch we met together on the infield.  We announced the MVPs from both teams and then shared testimonies about how everyone stops playing baseball eventually.  Jose Fernandez & Oscar Traverez ended their young MLB careers prematurely.  We also talked about how Albert Pujols, Andy Pettitte & Ben Zobrist were all unnoticed early in their baseball careers like many of the Dominicans.  All 3 of these men also knew that God’s eyes move to and fro throughout the whole earth to find the one whose heart is completely His!  Bottom line is God has plans for all of us and being faithful to our Savior is the most important part!

We also gave each player a professional 5 x 7 print & 4 baseball cards of themselves.  Our photo missionaries took pics of the Dominicans before the game and then without electricity used a battery printer and made a beautiful portfolio package for them.  We included a Ben Zobrist testimony card and a one of a kind Andy Pettitte SCORE card (that Andy made specially for our team) and a Gospel pen.

Today is basically what our mission trip is all about.  Most of the players on the DR team are already Christians because of the outreach of SCORE and baseball missionaries like ourselves.  Coach Robertsy is doing a great job discipling his young men.  I am so proud of our team and the love they have showed to a foreign culture.  It has been well received and judging by the motivation factor of our entire team serving is a pure joy… even when your tired in the Dominican Republic!

Keith Coneby

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