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Flames get new perspective on baseball and life on Fall Break trip

February 26, 2019

Players and coaching staff from Liberty’s baseball team traveled to the Dominican Republic in October to minister in the communities of Boca Chica, San Pedro De Macoris, and Santo Domingo. They visited an orphanage, delivered food to an outlying village, partnered with the Rawlings Foundation in leading a youth baseball clinic, and played three organized games.

“Our mission was to go down there and use baseball as an avenue to share the Gospel,” Flames Head Coach Scott Jackson said. “The best way for you to grow and to serve other people is to get out of your own little world. We all struggle with that, myself included. It’s not about you.”

He said the team’s trip to the orphanage for disabled children was difficult but rewarding.

“To walk through that orphanage and watch our players just sitting there kind of leaned over bedsides or cribsides with these orphans and just holding their hands and talking to them was emotional,” Jackson said. “You could see our (players) just pouring themselves into these kids.”

“These kids were left because their families didn’t accept them, and we were just there showing them love,” Flames junior utility player Jonathan Embry said. “They had so much joy even though they weren’t in the best situation. Our problems don’t even compare.”

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