Hey guys!
Scott here. Lots of cool stuff happening in our world right now. On top of having our first child, the ministry is growing and gaining momentum in a big way. As I sit here still trying to recover from a lack of sleep last night after getting home at 1:30 from a trackside bible study in East Houston and a baby that decided to wake up at 5:00am this morning to play, I'm still way energized by all that has been happening lately and all that is coming up. Let me tell you a little about it...
A cool deal, that actually just happened last night, came right after the bible study that we did at BnC MX Park after practice. I had been talking with some of our camp staff for nearly an hour afterwards, doing a little training for the upcoming camp, and finally got back to the truck to start loading my stuff up and take my girls home, when one of the new faces from the bible study comes around the corner... Kyle (19ish) had been waiting around for me for an hour and I could tell he was eager to talk about something. Not knowing the dude from Adam, I didn't really know what to expect, but after a little small talk, Kyle starts pouring his heart out to me like I had been his pastor for years...
"I've been going through some really rough times" he tells me as I'm strapping my bike in the trailer,
"and I've strayed pretty far from God, so I was glad you invited me to bible study... I figured I would give it [God] another shot."... As he continues to go in to detail about the rough things that he has been going through, and just how far he really had strayed, and as I continue to give him the very non-sugar coated biblical advice he needed, I honestly was thinking,
"this kid may get up and walk away if I don't ease up a little!" but he didn't. He actually did the opposite.
"that's a lot better advice than what my friends have been giving me." he said. I found myself on a big time high on the way home at midnight afterwards simply because I know God is using us here. There is absolutely no reason for a guy like Kyle to pour out his heart to an almost perfect stranger other than that God has placed us here to meet a specific need for guys just like him.
Secondly, I just found out that Jordan (the kid Kasi talked about in her last post) has been ordered by the court to move from Indiana to Texas to live with his dad (who doesn't want anything to do with him...). I've got his phone number and am hoping to be able to make contact with him soon and hopefully get him plugged in to a local church and hopefully one of our TX FCA MX Teams. Please pray for Jordan, his situation, and that he is receptive to us reaching out to him during an obviously hard time.
Lastly, for now, in about an hour we will head to what is, for many Houston area amateur motocrossers, one of the biggest events of the year (the Regional Loretta Lynn Qualifier at Three Palms). This is the make or break for whether or not these racers will qualify for the most prestigious amateur race of the year (The Loretta Lynn Amateur National) in Tennessee. The track owner has given us a primo location to park the rig, and free reign to do two chapel services after his mandatory riders meetings on Saturday and Sunday. With hundreds in attendance, it's an awesome opportunity to preach the Gospel, especially considering that probably 95% of them are not involved in any type of church, and that many of them have never heard the Gospel! Pray that my words are His!
I could go on about stories just like Kyle's and Jordan's, but I'll save that for another day!
Be blessed and be a blessing to someone today!
Scott