Miller Monitor

Merry Christmas, Wow is it really that time already? What a crazy, but wonderful Christmas week this will be! Christmas is alway one of my most favorite times of the year, but this year I finish off the Christmas week with a wedding to marry my beautiful bride Annie and then its off on the honeymoon to kick off 2008! God is good! I am truly blessed!

Thank you to all who have prayerfully and generously supported me through another great year with Missionary Athletes International. Click here to view the 2007 MAI Ministry Update which I put together for our banquet. It's a great ministry review of the year.

GIVE THE TEACHER AN APPLE!

It's Christmas Break for my teaching at Grace Academy, but it continues to go well, and I've enjoyed getting to know each of the kids in my class.

Sports Ministry, an effective tool in Nigeria and Brazil!

The Lord was faithful in bringing our tour members back safely from Brazil and Nigeria. They have shared so many amazing stories of how the Lord worked through them and the sport of soccer to share the gospel.

In Brazil a few of our women's team members worked closely with top level women's teams in Brazil, introducing players and coaches to sports ministry. One Coach named Sessa, was overjoyed to learn the concept of Sports Ministry. She was so excited to see how she could worship the Lord through the soccer skills He had given her, and in all she does. She is now leading the team in discipleship and encouraging them to share their faith through the sport they love!

In Nigeria, Eagles pro team player, Dustin Swinehart was told this concerning ministry to the muslim people: "If you hold up a Bible the people will run from you, but if you hold up a soccer ball the people will run to you." They discovered just how effective sports ministry can be, especially in northern Nigeria where countless numbers of Missionaries have been forced out and unsuccessful in a Muslim dominated region. A soccer ball attracts the people despite the religious differences, and relationships are developed; doors to minister are opened.

The Eagles players were also amazed by the few native Christians in the area who put their lives on the line for their faith and even just by being associated with the Christians from america. Tour member Aaron Deloach commented that the stories of the Bible seem to come alive in Africa, especially as a group of the players visited a leper colony; outcasts forced out of the cities because of their illness. The players had the opportunity to show Christ's love to these people even as simply as visiting them, providing a caring touch, and acknowledging them.

Thanks again for all your prayer and support making it possible for me to serve the Lord with Missionary Athletes International and the Charlotte Eagles. If you know others who may be interested in hearing about our ministry, then you can click the this link to forward this to a friend:

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As you may know, Missionary Athletes International is a 501c3 non-profit Christian mission. All of MAI staff rely on donations to cover living expenses, personal ministry expenses, and health insurance. If you are interested in supporting me financially in this ministry, you can send your donation to Missionary Athletes International, PO Box 1889, La Mirada, CA 90637-1889 (please make a notation of David Miller support on the check). Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or would like more information.

God Bless & Merry Christmas,

David Miller (and Annie too!)
Charlotte Eagles Soccer

a division of Missionary Athletes International
dmiller@charlotteeagles.com
(980) 721-6726

2007-10-03T15:52:00.001-07:00

MILLER MONITOR - monitoring the ministry work of Dave Miller with the Charlotte Eagles

Missionary Athletes International

In This Issue

Getting Married!!!!

Another Great Summer...

Reflections from Soccer Camp

Sports Ministry Internationally

We're Getting Married!

It's been another exciting summer and to top it all off, I asked my girlfried Annmarie Carter to marry me! She said yes and we set the date for December 29th in her hometown of Greenville, NC.

Annie and I had been dating for a year, and we could both sense the Lord leading us together toward marriage.

Annie grew up in Greenville, NC and currently lives in Burlington, NC where she has been working as a counselor at Elon University. Burlington is about a 2 hour drive from Charlotte, so as you can imagine we've put a few miles on our cars this past year. Annie is now looking for work in Charlotte as she finishes up her time at Elon before the wedding.

We both feel so blessed and excited about the wedding and the life together that the Lord has for us.

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The Charlotte Eagles Soccer Camps are always an exciting part of the Charlotte Eagles ministry, showing kids the love of Christ

2007
Camp in Numbers

* 25 camps
* 1435 youth campers
* 120 inner-city campers
* 125 high school campers
* 175 college campers
* 16 church partners
* COUNTLESS NUMBER OF LIVES IMPACTED FOR CHRIST

Prayer Requests

Annie and I would love prayer for our upcoming wedding and marriage, that it would be Christ centered.

Pray for our team members in Africa, that their ministry work there would be fruitful and glorfying to God.

Planning for 2008 - that we will follow the plan that the Lord has for us.

Recruiting - that the Lord will bring more people to staff who have a heart for ministry and can help lighten the load of our current staff.

Greetings, and thank you all for your prayers and support.

The Miller Monitor has gone digital! In an attempt to keep you all better informed and make updates more frequent, I've decided to switch to an online e-newsletter format for the Miller Monitor. Hope you enjoy. Any feedback you have would be great!

The exciting summer soccer season has come to an end, but it hasn't put a halt to the work. This time of year I have my plate full with preparations for the the Charlotte Eagles Annual Banquet. I am also in the process of developing a new website for both MAI and the Charlotte Eagles to be more effective tools of sharing our ministry. Then of course there are all the details in putting together our wedding which is now less than three months away! Annie has done a great job, and I pitch in where I can be helpful

GIVE THE TEACHER AN APPLE!

Believe it or not I've stepped into the world of teaching. I've been given a great opportunity to share my skills in webdesign with junior high and senior high students, two days a week at a nearby school called Grace Academy. It's been a new and fun experience seeking to have an impact in the lives of these kids.

Another Great Summer in the History Books

This summer has been another exciting one here with Missionary Athletes International and the Charlotte Eagles Soccer Club. Our men's pro team and women's w-league team was made up of a great group of individuals from as close as Charlotte, NC to as far away as Zimbabwe, Africa. These players came together for a summer season of high level soccer, sports ministry training, soccer camp and clinic coaching, public appearances, and with the desire to be Christian role models to kids and fans. - full story

REFLECTIONS FROM CAMP

The 2007 Camp theme was "Glory Road" - "Take a right turn at the cross!"

This year the camp program was diversified to reach more people and in new age groups than were previously reached through our camp program. We continued our tradition youth soccer camps for the elementary to middle school aged kids and added more out of town camps. Additionally we increased our involvement in the inner-city and with the Hispanic community with camps offered specifically for those groups. Team camp was where we really took the next step. Our high school team camp was an over-night camp, which provided our players and staff the opportunity to go deeper, with more focused time with the kids. Our college team camp which first began in 2006 with four college teams, increased to seven teams this year. Team camps are an exciting time to not just minister, but to all train college aged Christian athletes in sports ministry and show them how to use their soccer talents and Christian faith together to serve and to share God's love.

"We had a fantastic time. These camps the past two years have certainly transformed our team. Last year during our season, two players accepted Christ. I know that was due in part to the seeds planted at the Eagles' event." Coach Jonathan Lenarz - Southern Wesleyan College Men's Soccer

Quote from High School Team camp:
"There were two commitments to Christ during the camp and wide-spread interest among the boys in furthering their relationship with Christ. That is exciting confirmation that the camp was well worth all the exhausting effort of all those who made it possible and great confirmation that the mission of the Charlotte Eagles is well-placed. I cannot say enough how much I respect and appreciate your staff and their commitment to Christ and sports ministry. The boys were led into new areas of their walks with Christ and inspired to play great soccer and live great lives. I know that participation in this camp took quite some effort and rearrangement of plans by the Eagles, but I am so grateful that your organization saw what a blessing this partnership could be for all those involved." - Mark Nichols, Camp partner

Sports Ministry Training in Kenya & Ethiopia

A team of seven headed off to Africa last Friday on a Isaiah 6 Sports Ministry Trip. The group will be training a few coaches in a highly Muslim populated area of Kenya before traveling to Ethiopia to partner with Sports Friends in a larger conference where they'll teach Christian coaches how to be life infleuncers through soccer. A few of the guys with then head on to Nigeria to continue work there. They will be met by the Eagles pro team tour to Nigeria at the end of November. Click here to see the trip prayer calendar

2007 International Tours impacted lives around the world with international tours to Brazil, the Czech Republic, Japan and Mexico. Click here to view a report on each of these tours

Thanks again for all your prayer and support making it possible for me to server the Lord with Missionary Athletes International and the Charlotte Eagles. If you know others who may be interested in hearing about our ministry, then you can click the link at the bottom of this page and forward this e-mail to them for their evaluation. If interested they can subscribe on their own.

God Bless,

David Miller
Charlotte Eagles Soccer

a division of Missionary Athletes International
dmiller@charlotteeagles.com
(980) 721-6726

If you are interested in supporting me financially in this ministry, you can contact me at (980) 721-6726 or dmiller@charlotteeagles.com, or you can send your donation to Missionary Athletes International, PO Box 1889, La Mirada, CA 90637-1889 (please make a notation of David Miller support on the check).