2010 Masters Summary

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Beautiful are the feet....

I have recently returned with SCEI from our Master’s Ministry to Panama humbled to have been used by such a great and merciful God. Every year SCEI takes a men’s fast pitch softball team somewhere in Latin America. This year we went to Panama which is an area we were not familiar with. We had no solid connections with any churches or missionaries, but God went before us and prepared the way. We challenged teams in four different cities playing double headers every day. In between games one of our players shared his testimony and Steven Arce, a full time missionary with SCEI, translated and gave a presentation of the gospel. Our team had the opportunity to play against Panama’s national team. Many accepted Christ as their Savior and after our last game with them both teams gathered on the field for prayer before they left for a tournament in Columbia.

Every day we had group devotions and the topic one evening was ‘beautiful are the feet of him who brings good news’. What an honor it was to be apart of God’s work bringing the good news of Jesus our Savior. I overheard one of our players saying how he had heard one of the men praying for salvation and how he had to hold back tears because of the joy that comes from seeing one sinner come to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. It is at that point that we realize that it’s not about our win record, or our ability to play ball, but in Christ’s win record over death and the grave which brings life to the lost. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” Isaiah 52:7