Thursday, July 24, 2008 - A Rare Opportunity
Last week as we were winding things down at the public school one of the kids from PEPE came up to me with a girl, Glacie, who he had been talking to.
Glacie told me that she has a team of 22 girls that want to play soccer but they have no place to play. They have tried renting space in a local court but since the girls in the team are all from low income families they many of them can’t participate. The local school won’t let kids from other schools come in to play. She asked, “Pastor Mac, is there any way you can help us with this? Nobody supports us because nobody is interested in girls soccer, nobody cares about girls.” Understand, Glacie is a sweet kid but she is a product of this neighborhood, she looks hard as nails, but she had tears in her eyes when she finished talking.
I told her, “Glacie, we have space to play over at the Sports Center but our purpose isn’t just to make space available for kids to play soccer but to work in the lives of the kids that are playing soccer there. I need to find a woman or two who will be willing to work with you in this who will get involved with you and teach you the Word of God. Are you and the girls willing to play there if that’s the deal?”
“Pastor Mac, we really need this. That would be just fine with us.”
The next day she showed up at the afternoon event with most of her team. I have put the word out that we need one or two women form our local churches to work with them on Saturday mornings. I put her in contact with Alberto, one of our seminary students to try to recruit a leader or two for them. Please make this a matter of urgent prayer that God would call a few of our women to take them on as a ministry. It is a rare thing that something like this just falls out of the sky.
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