A few words about our Makarios Soccer League programs by our wonderful intern, Daniel Forbes…

The soccer camps are coming to a close, as we begin our tournament play this next week. I am super excited to see all the kids playing, as we have been working and practicing and doing scrimmages for the last six weeks with this as the end goal. The kids have learned so much, and it is very encouraging to hear them as they quote the Scriptures we have been learning each week. Right now, the tournament could go to any of the five teams I have playing, which is super exciting, as a Coach, knowing that any one of them could potentially win it all.

My assistant, Cakito, has been a wonderful encouragement to me over the last six weeks. Working with him four days a week, being with him for six to eight hours each of those days, has provided me the opportunity to come to see and know the heart of a young man who desperately wants to know and love his Savior. He is a breath of fresh air, his passion for the Scriptures is anything but a show, and his help in the soccer program has been tremendous. I honestly do not know how we could have had soccer camps go well without him.

Life at the Mak house has been a great joy for me, getting to know believers who work and think very differently, but who are still united by the love of Christ. The work that is done here at the house, and in the surrounding area of Los Ciruelos, and then out in the villages, is able to happen because of the diversity of gifting and personalities that we have here at the Mak house. I am encouraged regularly by each one of those who live here.