I moved into this neighborhood of Lee County and entered a people group who is a completely different culture than my own. I have never cheered before in my life and I didn’t even have friends who were cheerleaders growing up. But I have been slowly learning their language and spending my Mondays - Fridays with these girls with the intention of inviting them to Young Life and starting a Bible study with them. I am praying they will know Jesus!
At a recent home Estero football game, I hung out with my freshman cheer squad at the varsity game. I am twenty-five years old and I stood with them in the student section and when there was a lightning delay I sat with them in the gym. When we went back out to the game after the initial lightning delay I went and sat with some parents for a few minutes. A couple freshman girls came to find me and said, “Savannah, come stand with us in the student section!” Usually students are uncomfortable with the fact that an adult is standing with them but these girls came and asked me to be with them!
John 1:12 says, “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” I am praying that if these girls can want me to stand with them in the student section which seems so impossible to me; just maybe these girls will want Jesus in their lives as well!
