Cheerleaders

As an 11-year-old, I recall trying out for the school football team.

I was a little anxious that day about playing at my best and afraid that I wouldn’t make the team, like my brother had some years before.

As I unpacked my kit bag, I found a little note from my brother inside my boots, with a few simple words.

It said, “𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒕, 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕!”

That’s all I needed, I played well and was selected for the team!

Roll the clock forward several years, to 2013.

Starting out in business on your own is risky, challenging and can be a little frightening.

How grateful I am for my wife, who provided the love, encouragement and instilled within me the self-belief that I could make a success of setting out on my own journey.

Then onwards to 2021.

Serving as Mission Leaders in Belgium and the Netherlands has been a huge stretch!

There have been many ups and downs on our journey and likewise no doubt in your own journey through life.

Are 𝐘𝐎𝐔 a cheering section?

Yet, I know there are those pulling for us to succeed, including parents, partners, children, brothers, sisters, relatives, friends, work colleagues and now missionaries past, present and even future.

My message is, hopefully, clear, every person in this life has a cheering section.

It is composed of those all around us who sometimes silently and oftentimes vocally, cheer us on to succeed.

Who is on the sidelines in your cheering section?