United through soccer

This past Saturday we had an event at the church geared towards attracting people from the community.  Taking advantage of the time of year we had a fair-like event that had many carnival games and lots of food.  It was lots of fun and we had many people show up that have never come to one of our services.  One of the highlights of the afternoon was watching the US vs. Ghana soccer game with the Brazilians.  Many of our Brazilian church members were avidly cheering for the US and were visibly concerned when Ghana would create a scoring opportunity.  I would imagine that some of these people have never cheered for the US before but because of our relationship they had become honorary Americans, cheering beside us and with us during the game.