Visiting schools in Brazil and Juggling for Jesus

This is Mark one of our players who is "Juggling for Jesus". At most of the schools we played a game with the students called Juggling for Jesus. We would ask for one of the best jugglers in the class to volunteer and then challenge them to a juggling contest with one of our players. Whoever had the most without letting the ball drop wins and whoever had the least lost and would have to do 50 push ups! We would always let the kid go first and then the Eagle player would try to double or at least beat the kid's score. Many of these students were really good and we didn't always beat them! The loser would then start to do push ups and one of our other players would step in and stop them from doing the push ups and do all 50 push ups for them. After the push ups someone in the group would explain how Jesus does the same thing for us. He takes the punishment we deserve for the wrongs we do and does it for us just like our player did the pushy for the school kid even though the kid should have done them. It was a great way to explain how Christ loves them and wants to offer His saving grace to them.

One of our players Jozi with some of the school kids. At some of the schools we were able to play some soccer with and others we just talked with them in a classroom setting.

This is one of the several schools we visited while in Brazil. The schools were really open to letting us come in and share with the students for an hour or so. We could talk about Jesus all we wanted, something we could never do in the US!

Fun and exciting times in beautiful Brazil!

On our last day just a few hours before our flight back to the US we got to visit the Christ The Redeemer statue. It was amazing to see it up close and in person! When we got there it was just getting dark and it was a really cloudy night. It was awesome!

Some of us at a Batafogo vs. Santos professional Brazilian soccer game. It was packed and the fans were crazy! Even crazier than an Indiana High School Basketball State Finals game!

We got to go to the beach a couple times for the teams to train, have some team devos and just enjoy God's beautiful creation! This is a picture at the Copacabana beach and the famous sidewalk.

Myka (third from the left) with some of the girls at a park near Goiania.