Growing each minute

I would never have guess God would open my eyes and teach me as much as he has in less than a week. It has almost been a week since we arrived at Forterocca. We have been busy busy busy... but its great. We are learning how to share the gospel with people. I never really realized that there are windows into the gospel, starting with creation, the Fall of man, Judgment, crucifixion, Resurrection, and the Response we use a quick description of each window and a verse to back out point. It really is a great tool to use in the field. Its called the 2 way process because you can either accept Christ or deny him.

The valley that we are in is amazing it is the very spot that the Church first went through reformation in the 1100's. The earliest Waldensians believed in poverty and austerity, promoting true poverty, public preaching and the personal study of the scriptures. The sect originated in the late 12th century as the Poor Men of Lyons, a band organized by Peter Waldo, a wealthy merchant of Lyon, who gave away his property around 1177 and went about preaching apostolic poverty as the way to perfection. They soon came through Italy and on there way to Rome to see Pope Alexander III, he blessed their life but forbade preaching without authorization from the local clergy. They would not agree to this and this would start a war with the pope.They where on the run from his armies and went deep into the Alps of North Western Italy. They would worship in a cave that we actually got to go to, This is a place of worship where they put their lives online for Christ, so they could freely worship away from the Catholic church, unfortunately some would be killed, they were sent to a high peak (which is actually in front of my window) and they would be pushed off the edge if they did not submit to the Pope. Its very humbling to know that these people died for what they believed in, they died for Christ! They are the real reformers!

We start camps Tuesday just outside of the town we stay in right now I can not remember the name of the town. But out main objective is to share Christ with these children and to make them interested and fun in sports, because at there age they have a bad experience in sports and drop out completely. But Its really neat we get to figure out what we want to do with them as far as instructional things me and Vence the other baseball guy will be doing baseball. We have a nice little plan. We only have an hour and 10 min for instruction and then later on in the day 45 min to play. But during the hour 10 min we are going to stretch and have an agility work out. Then 10 min of throwing/catching, 20 min of fielding, 20 min of hitting, and 10 min of base running. During the competition depending on home many children come out we will play a real game, home run derby, or something on a points system its in the air at the moment. The camp is four days long so that means four opportunities to share Christ with a different group of Children each day. I will try and blog Tuesday night about the first day of camp to let you all know how it goes, and then at the end of the week once the camp is over.

God reveals things to me every day. Its happening more and more each day our guys group here is really starting to click and today in our small groups it was really cool to sit down with them and talk about things that we cant really talk to the girls about, it was great! But what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas! (thats the name of the room we meet) haha. But its almost 1AM and I need to go! But thanks guys! Cya all very soon!

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