Play For Hope

One more day til I fly back to America...

We had our big soccer tournament on Wednesday and Thursday, and it

lived to expectation.  We had teams come from being behind 3-1 to winning

4-3, we had shootouts, we even had a coach ejected (WOW).  500 spectators

witnessed the events and we received praised from the top newspapers and 

radio stations in the country.  

Today, we held a soccer/basketball clinic for the first day of the two day Kigali

Hope Festival.  We had over a thousand kids and 10,000 spectators as we held

various drills in the national stadium.  We received praise from some of the top 

people in the country, including the number one soccer player in the country.

I mention this because for us, all this praise is mind-blowing.  We understand that

we're nobodys, just a group of 20-something yr olds trying to bring hope to 

kids through sports.  But yet people look at us like superstars.  So many people

came up to me during the day that I began to realize how known we have 

become over the summer.  

I know, we're not to focus on being praised and such, but at the same time

it can really just blow you away when you receive things you know you don't 

deserve.  I guess this is what Christians would call the good grace of God...