Last night I went to a Monterrey Tigres soccer game with some new found friends! Soccer is HUGE here in Mexico! The whole night was an adventure. It started with driving part of the way, then getting a taxi, then riding the city train, and finally reaching the stadium. We were on the Metro with hundreds of other Tigres fans. All you could see were bright yellow and blue jerseys. The stadium itself was a sight to behold!
We estimated around 35,000 Tigres fans were there. There is one section of the stadium that is reserved for the "loco" fans... basically these fans stand the entire time chanting and dancing. While we were watching the game we got video taped by the news! We saw ourselves on Mexican television today as they covered the game. I have never been on TV in the States and within my first two weeks in Mexico I am a Mexican super star (okay maybe that is a little exaggeration :). The Tigres won the game with a score of 1-0. The fans were satisfied. On the Metro ride home the crowd was so intense that it was literally moving me! I don't know if I have ever been around this many people before. We ended the night by sharing our testimonies with each other at a local hamburger stand.
My fellow teacher at the school, Ruby, shared about her past life and how God has brought her out of sin and into His kingdom. Cheque (with the hat) lives with his mom and dad and 10 sisters on our property. His parents are the house parents for the Esther House (a teen girls home for the girls who used to live in the children's homes and are now in high school or college). He told his amazing story of being high one night several years back and in the midst of it all hearing the Lord speak to him call him out of that lifestyle and into his glorious light! Cheque has never been the same since that encounter with Jesus and is now serving Jesus with his family in Monterrey. Jhon also came from a hard past. His father left his family when he was very young and Jhon found himself making some very poor choices through his teen years. Again, our faithful God gave him a hope and a future and Jhon is now serving Jesus by working at the children's homes. Praise Jesus for all this redemption all over the place! To sum it up it was a great night: a good soccer match, and great conversations about saving grace.
My fellow teacher at the school, Ruby, shared about her past life and how God has brought her out of sin and into His kingdom. Cheque (with the hat) lives with his mom and dad and 10 sisters on our property. His parents are the house parents for the Esther House (a teen girls home for the girls who used to live in the children's homes and are now in high school or college). He told his amazing story of being high one night several years back and in the midst of it all hearing the Lord speak to him call him out of that lifestyle and into his glorious light! Cheque has never been the same since that encounter with Jesus and is now serving Jesus with his family in Monterrey. Jhon also came from a hard past. His father left his family when he was very young and Jhon found himself making some very poor choices through his teen years. Again, our faithful God gave him a hope and a future and Jhon is now serving Jesus by working at the children's homes. Praise Jesus for all this redemption all over the place! To sum it up it was a great night: a good soccer match, and great conversations about saving grace.
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