Major League

From left: Brian Hommel, Micaiah, Jess, Russ, Russ Ortiz

We had to include this post to show you just how cool and important we are.  Haha, nah, we just wanted to share something cool that we got to experience in our first week in the Philippines.  Jeff Long and Kids International Ministries have a lot of connections all over the world, some of whom are pretty high profile people.  This week we hosted a couple guys working through Unlimited Potential Inc. who did baseball clinics around the area.  Who is it, Russell, you might ask.   Oh, just a couple of Major League baseball players, that's all.  No big deal.

Russ Ortiz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Ortiz), who played mostly for the San Francisco Giants and Atlanta Braves, and who pitched in the World Series, was one of the guys.  The other was Brian Hommel (http://www.upi.org/html/Staff/Hommel.html) who played with the Milwaukee Brewers.  It was really cool to meet these guys.  Brian is currently the chaplain for the Arizona Diamondbacks and gave an awesome devotion on Sunday night on John 15.  Russ loved Micaiah, and was constantly making faces with her whenever she was around. 

Probably the coolest thing about these guys was how humble they were.  Both expected to be treated just like everyone else, and hung out with the teams here all the time.  It's good to see God bringing high profile people to work with the least of these.