Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Spicy Christmas in the DR


“Coach, can you put one of those songs on that we sang at your church?”  Stephanie asked.  Even though the trip to the states was four months ago, there are still many things that have stayed with our girls (in addition to belting the songs they learned at church).   Since they were stretched out of their comfort zone, their self-confidence has grown, making them better leaders here.  Before the trip, two girls consistently went to church. Now, eight of them have been attending regularly.  In addition, on Friday mornings at 6:30 am, we do a breakfast prayer meeting and 10 of them have been coming. Last week at bible study, Esther, in tears, asked if I would be willing to go with her when she breaks the news to her devout catholic parents that she wants to become a Christian. These may seem like little things, but they have been big steps for these girls. 

We just had our Christmas party with our varsity and JV teams.  Check out one of our competitions.  Kinda the same idea with marshmallows in the game "Chubby Bunny", yet we did it with Jalepenos. Hehe. 
Each team had to dress up for their dance competition.  Check out the varsity team! 


Some of our JV girls before their dance! 

The "Nana" after the cake eating competition! 

Overall, a super fun day with the girls.  For the first time in 3 years, I'll be spending Christmas here this year.  I will definitely miss my family, but I really wanted to have a restful time where I wasn't traveling. Plus, I really want to see what a Dominican Christmas is like!

In other VC Revolution News... 
In February of 2013, another American woman will be joining me on staff, which I am super excited for! She played volleyball in college and has the same passion for working with young girls.  This will allow us to start even more teams and be able to disciple more girls at a more intimate level.  Four of our varsity girls will be graduating high school this year and will no longer be able to play with the varsity team.  We hope that some of them will continue to stayed involved in our VC Revolution volleyball program as coaches, but we want to push them out of the nest so that they can pursue a college education.  We’ve also been brainstorming ideas to figure out how these girls can financially support themselves to go to college.  Please pray for these girls that they will all be able continue to take the next step and go to college.


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