After a tasty lunch, we headed out into Varnamo, where we played the great game of floorball, which is not common in the United States but more popular in European countries. After a long day and week of community service, the team enjoyed playing in a floorball tournament for about four hours with several youth from the community. Also Trevor Begley and Fisher Naumann shared their testimony with the group, which was really heartwarming hearing about their story and how they came to Jesus Christ. After the tournament, we finished up at the church and packed all of our hockey bags and luggage and had a great, emotional time of debriefing and review of the week with the team and the trip leaders.
To conclude, this trip really brought all of our hockey team and staff together, as there were tears shed and players coming to Christ. It was certainly an experience having the Lord in our presence and it gave me chills knowing that the Lord was with us. He certainly changed my life, as well as other lives on our team. This mission trip has created many different memories, from cold plunges and saunas, to helping serve coffee and cookies and Bibles to the locals in Varnamo, giving chocolate out to the apartment residents, having the opportunity to play two hockey games, and meeting the players from the other team, sharing pizza and laughs. This was a successful trip and it was great to see God’s work being done to all of the wonderful people around me,” Bregante said.
