He Works All Things for Good

My name is Christina Bradley, and I'm a nursing student from Cincinnati, Ohio. This is my third year serving with SportQuest as a cheerleading coach! I feel called to serve God in whatever missions field He places me in, and SportQuest has been the tool He has allowed me to use to fulfill His purpose in this season of my life.

On Tuesday afternoon, our athletes prepared for camp as usual. We served at our service projects in the morning, and then continued planning for clinics into the afternoon. As four o’clock came around, we packed our vans and cars full and headed to our respective fields and gyms. As a cheerleading coach, I helped my fellow coaches pull out our tumbling and stunting mats. We noticed that the rain started to fall harder, so we circled up as a team and asked our Heavenly Father to allow for safety and His will to be done with the rain.

Camps start at five o’clock, but as the clock ticked closer to the five, the rain only worsened. We received word that SportQuest camp would be canceled that evening due to severe weather.  Instead of packing up and heading home, we decided to play worship music from our dance speakers and invited some of the others in the gym to join us. One of these people was the gym administrator. This woman is someone that SportQuest had worked with a couple of times in the past, but we had not yet received the opportunity to reach out to her on a personal level.  She hesitantly said she would come sit with us for a song or two. This quickly became a full set of worship as we thanked God for the storm, even though we weren’t sure of His plan.

As the storm carried on, five coaches and our gym’s administrator lifted our voices to God. This impromptu worship session led the administrator to tears, and followed with her sharing a little of her own story with us. She prayed the most beautiful prayer over us to close our worship service, and she assured us that she would never forget our kind actions towards her on that frightening evening.  God provided a bridge to a partnership that evening, which will lead to building more relationships in the future. It was so incredible to watch God orchestrate His plan that night, regardless of what we as coaches thought needed to take place. Again, God was reminding me that He is in control and that He wants to “work all thing for good, according to His purpose.” ~Romans 8:28