Dear praying friend,<\/p>\n
A little more of the story!\u00c2\u00a0 Actually just a couple of days before I had all this trouble with my leg and stomach and all, we had 4 guys arrive from the US with the AIA basketball staff.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know how many of you may have watched the Worlds which were here in Saitama, just northwest of Tokyo, but they were going on in other cities at first and then the final 16 in Saitama until yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, we were privileged to pick these guys up in 2 groups arriving by bus from the airport, and they stayed at the guest house just near our home and close by the kids school.\u00c2\u00a0 So we had a wonderful visit with them at the beginning, got them set up with one young college student who took them around town for their first couple days, and then they were on their own, visiting various players, agents, coaches, and FIBA world congress reps.<\/p>\n
Afterward we heard God opened up some wonderful contacts with key people among those, including team USA invited them to do 2 chapels on 2 days, which is voluntary participation of course, but about 20 came to each of those.\u00c2\u00a0 They were given tickets to some of the games and even found they were sitting near by key agents or other leaders they had been praying to meet!\u00c2\u00a0 Finally they were also asked to join one of the team USA practices.\u00c2\u00a0 There they were able to get some great video interviews with players, background footage, etc, for the next AIA basketball video they are working on.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the AIA guys were also able to meet representatives of basketball for countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and other harder to make contact locations, so they were all really happy about the special doors God had opened for their time.<\/p>\n
All that was going on while I was really sick!\u00c2\u00a0 It encouraged me how God is always at work.<\/p>\n
Current update: still have the sore throat, but if they are right that it is probably a virus it will take some time.\u00c2\u00a0 Still have 2 spots on my leg that the color hasn’t yet changed from red, so we are concerned about those, especially that the bacteria not get used to the antibiotic.\u00c2\u00a0 In that case I may need a different antibiotic to finish knocking this thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Please pray that these 2 spots will just settle down like the rest and go away.\u00c2\u00a0 Still have swelling in the lower leg (it goes down at night pretty well).\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks so much for your prayers!<\/p>\n
With Jesus love,
\nSteve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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