Happy New Year!

January 25, 2011

Happy New Year! We hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! It has certainly been a while since I have posted, and we’re definitely staying busy! Since returning from the Dominican Republic I have really felt called to work with young athletes right here in our own community as well. I was able to get my feet wet locally by holding a football conditioning camp last summer. I have also done some personal training with local young athletes and incorporated a bible study into our workouts. This week I will start giving some local kids baseball lessons. This has been such an awesome experience for me. I feel God working and I’m growing closer to Him each day.

A couple months ago, we found a small, fixer-upper commercial building for sale in La Porte. It would be perfect for our Christmas lights business, with a few offices to rent out --- AND --- a place for me to set up a batting cage! How awesome is that?! I am very anxious to see how this develops – I’m excited about the opportunity of working with young athletes in our own community, underprivileged kids, and leading these kids to God at the same time. I was recently approved to be a leader with the FCA – Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Their resources will really help me in this venture. I can’t put into words how excited I am about everything that has happened since our mission trip. To feel like you finally understand your calling in this world and what God wants you to do – that’s an amazing feeling. To watch God bring people into your lives, direct you on His path, open doors in ways that you never could have done on your own --- that’s amazing.

And of course we are staying in touch with our AIM group. The website has been updated, www.aimissions.net, and we are planning some awesome things for our trip to the Dominican next year. We also have someone working in Cuba to get baseball missions started there. The dates for the Dominican trip have been set for June 14th – 21st, and June 28th - July 5th. Ben Vigil and I are going to the Dominican in February to evaluate the progress there.

Stacy and I are going to do a better job of updating this blog on a regular basis. We hope each and every one of you are doing well!


God Bless,
Carlos

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. (Prov. 22:6)