I'm here to tell about my experience with the team as a translator. It has been very different than the usual medical clinics that I work. At the beginning when Jennifer told me that I was going to work with a volleyball team, I thought it would be harder than usual because they are athletes. I didn't know how it would be because up until now I've been working only with teachers, doctors, dentists, and eye doctors helping them to share the Gospel.
In the end I found that they have something in common -- the Love for God and the will to serve Him are all the same. We helped the girls to give their testimonies to the people here in Brazil and to teach volleyball to children at the schools we visited during the day. It has been a unique experience to see how dedicated they are with their sport and how seriously they take the Lord and His son. Well, as a bridge to help them to cross the language barrier, I can tell that they did their best and whatever was necessary to reach people through sport. How wonderful it is to know that there are people from a college playing some sports and still concerned nor just with God, but with others, people that don't know about God yet.
It has been a great privilege to hear their testimony and be a part of this somehow, to see how God changed their lives, and to support them in whatever they need. There are so many people here in Brazil that need to hear the Gospel, and God has provided not just Brazilian people to share the Gospel, but He has sent missionaries from all over the world to come here to Brazil to talk about Him and His will. When I started to think about this, a verse came to my mind, which is a part of the prayer of Jabez: "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory" (I Chronicles 4:10). For this group, it is just the start of what God can do with and through them. I'll keep praying for them, that they never get out of the middle of God's will, because it is good and there's no better place to stay.
Igor Chagas.
25 years old