![]() Going to a house with 12 kids and multiple families with barley a roof over their heads and a dirt floor and just the joy on their faces despite the conditions, It was incredibly humbling. “What they gave to us I could never repay. “We were bringing a physical and spiritual need to them,” said Dallas. Through this journey he was able to attend the mission trip to Costa Rico and feels he may have actually gotten more from the trip than what he did for others. ![]() Being able to share the Word with them and getting to know them is such a special opportunity.”Įagle quarterback David Dallas said he turned to AIA during a rough time last season when he found out he would need multiple surgeries on his shoulder. These are people who don’t know if their children will get sick from drinking the water and are sleeping on a dirt floor. “I complain if my television isn’t loading quick enough, or if my Wi-Fi goes out. “I think it really made me understand the stupid things I complain about on a daily basis,” Morrow said. Despite their circumstances you still see joy on their faces and I know if those were our own circumstances here, we would not have that same joy.”įor Eagle rifle team member Gabby Morrow, the mission trip really put things in perspective. They have five families under one roof with sheets hung up as walls. We just take things like that for granted. The water they are drinking can make them incredibly sick. It showed me what my priorities in life have been and what they should be. “Volleyball was my world and everything that came with that like training and working hard and feeling like I was on top of the world,” said Madison Brown. “Going on this mission trip really humbled me to my core. The revised edition of Native Athletes in Action adds two new and exciting young basketball players to the roster of outstanding Native athletes already. Many of those who attended the mission trip spoke of how it changed them as well as better understanding what things are like in other parts of the world. ![]() Me and my wife have felt called to go on a mission trip and it was amazing to go and have such an impact on others as well as them having an impact on us.” Being a baseball player, you don’t have a spring break so this was the first time I’ve been able to go on a mission trip. “As an athlete I think something like AIA really appealed to me. “When I came here to Georgia Southern, I was in search of community and to be around other believers,” said former Eagle baseball player Braden Hays.
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