I Am from Honduras, When I Was Born My Parents Divorced and Gave Me and My Four Siblings

I am from Honduras, when I was born my parents divorced and gave me and my four siblings up to an orphanage. I was in and out of numerous orphanages until I turned 16 when a young missionary from Tennessee took me and several other girls and started “Eternal Family Project,” a ministry that provides education and a family environment for orphan girls.

In 2005, a family from Dayton, TN (The Hollingsworth) went to Honduras to serve on a mission trip. After seeing me playing soccer on an all-boys team, the family jokingly asked me if I would like to go to the States to play college soccer after I graduated from high school.

I took that invitation seriously and after graduating as valedictorian of my high school, I called the Hollingsworth and I told them,I graduated…when do I start at Bryan College? They contacted Bryan College’s President Stephen D. Livesay who allowed me to be admitted provisionally for one semester in 2008 since my standardized test scores were not high enough to be officially admitted. At the end of that fall semester, with the help of several friends and student tutors, I made the Dean’s List and I was officially admitted to Bryan.

Over the next four years, I got the opportunity to played for the Bryan’s Womens Soccer team, earned my BS in Exercise and Health Science, worked as a Spanish tutor, served as a spokesperson for Samaritan’s Purse “Operation Christmas Child”. During 2008-2010 I took a number of Bryan soccer teammates down to Honduras to do mission’s work at orphanages I also worked in Atlanta, Chattanooga, and Charlotte using the platform of soccer to serve at-risk youth. During the summer of 2011 and 2012 I also served as an intern for FCA Soccer Ministries in Atlanta, GA.

God has continued to grow in meand influence me by opening the doors and calling me to serve as a full time missionary joining the team of the Fellowship Christian Athletes (FCA) in Atlanta Georgia. Over these two past months with (FCA) I have been having so many great experiences. I have the opportunity to serve the girls soccer team at Georgia Gwinnett College. I also had the opportunity to share my testimony and encourage them and be involved in some of their soccer practices.

I have a passion for sports and a heart for young kids, and I believe in the power of organized sports to open doors to impact the lives of youth. As part of the FCA Soccer Ministries, serving as a soccer representative in Gwinnett County, I will have the opportunity to serve at-risk youth and their communities. I will also leverage the platform of soccer to ‘MAKE DISCIPLES’ and bring about life transformation IN & THROUGH their lives. By developing soccer programs where kids will be trained to become not just great athletes but great women and men of God I will accomplish that mission.