I received this submission for the RN Around The World feature, and I thought it was worth sharing:
I’m a missionary in La Plata Argentina. My team works in the slums with extremely impoverished people. Because we usually work on most ‘american’ holidays and Argentine holidays are for spending with people, each year we take a special holiday as a team:
It’s Opening Day.
As a Reds fan, I hold the day sacred and keep the kids home from school. I cook US style Ribs and we watch baseball all day on a slingbox and DirecTV. My teammates are Cardinals, Indians, and Nationals fans. It’s my way of teaching my kids (5, 3, 1) to love baseball even though they’ll grow up in a country where it isn’t played. We all get together for a day, miss home, and cheer on the new season.
I love Redleg Nation. It’s made my season.
Nate Dunlevy
18to88.com
Thanks for that, Nate. (If you are an Indianapolis Colts fan, by the way, you need to check out Nate’s website linked above. Good stuff.)
Here are some pics of the festivities:
