Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Take Me Out to the Ball Game


After two or three years of practicing baseball with our village kids, GoodSports and our village of Mikepercs now has a team in the Hungarian National Youth Baseball League. We have only played three games so far and although we lost two (both to the Szentendre Sleepwalkers who have five or six Japanese kids on the team and most are 14, the upper age limit), the Mikepercs Mosquitos did manage to beat last year's national champs -- the Tiger Kids. And they did it quite soundly.

So baseball fever has hit our village. And in the whirlwind of hitting and catching, bunts and base steals, relationships are being forged. And we pray that Christ is glorified. May the pearl of great price come to Mikepercs in the form of a diamond -- a baseball diamond that is...