It begins with us...

1 Peter 4:17-18
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And "If the righteous are scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"
Sports and Cultural Exchange, along with the women's tennis team from Indianan Wesleyan University took the gospel to Ensanada, Mexico. There we used tennis as a bridge to build relationships and make new friends.
Sometimes we do not immediately see the big picture of how God is using us. Because of this, it is important to trust Him and do what we know we should do in our present circumstance. I imagined we would have had a larger group to minister to, and I imagined that we would have more control of the day to day. What I couldn’t imagine was a smaller more intimate setting where we allowed a trainer, Miguel Angel, to run a tennis clinic while we simply participated. Aside from that we were able to share the gospel through evangelistic movies such as Facing the Giants and Fireproof, and a few of the girls also had the opportunity to share a brief testimony of how Christ is working in their life, but this didn’t seem like the “mission trip” I had imagined, but God is teaching me and showing me a lot about missions. By the end of the trip I finally had realized why we were there. Miguel Angel addressed us at the end and even though he was proficient at English he chose to speak to us in Spanish as Jayson Hernandez translated. What he said I will never forget. He made the statement, “It is clear that your group has been touched by God.” To hear those words was all I needed to understand why we were there. It wasn’t the testimonies and the video that we watched that showed them who we were, but the love we showed in the time that the girls spent on the tennis court. It was an honor to have served with the women of IWU. I confidently say that if judgment begins with them, then there is hope for those who don’t believe.
It begins with us…