Hello!I have been in fulltime Christian ministry since 1999. My love is to share my love of Jesus through speaking, writing, coaching, and directing the daily aspects of the ICTA.
Feel free to use this article as a Christian tract to give to people at tennis tournaments.
International Christian Tennis Association women's pro team rocks!
Rachel Snelen forehand
Go ICTA Women's Pro Tennis Team!
Mission Trip: Baltimore, Maryland
(Pics are of ICTA Pro Team, and friends on the pro tour.)
To say this has been a fabulous week would be an understatement. God is so good. Can I share with you my favorite part of what has happened in my life recently?
A few days ago, Rachel Snelen called me from the mission field to tell me about how she and Mel led a really special girl to Salvation through acceptance of Jesus as her Lord and Savior! I was so grateful to receive that phone call.
God has blessed their Baltimore mission trip in many, many ways. In a world full of selfish people, I am awed at the unselfishness of our International Christian Tennis Association twins, Rachel and Melody Snelen!
This phone call from rach was one of the greatest I'd received all year.
Rach Snelen and her twin sister, Melody Snelen, are Christian tennis missionaries. The ITF & WTA pro tours are their main mission fields. Rachel is a newly ranked WTA Tour player, and Mel has a WTA point with a strong possibility to earn her WTA ranking this year.
Neither girl is interested in trying to earn a living as a professional tennis player. They know players ranked below 50 WTA barely earn a profit after expenses!
The goal for Rach and Mel Snelen was simply to learn to achieve a seemingly impossible dream... become skilled enough to earn a rare WTA Tour ranking. Rach has done this, and Mel will soon.
Now because of their long term dedication to excellence, the WTA Tour is a mission field for them in ways previously unaccessable! And God is blessing their efforts.
To help further their personal ministry, I am busily at work studying ways to send Rachel and Melody worldwide while they lead the International Christian Tennis Association Women's Pro Tennis Team's mission trips.
Properly organized and financed, it is realistic for ICTA to send these two incredible tennis missionaries to 30 tournaments over a 12 month period. Currently, well over 1/2 of these expenses are covered. I'm sure God will bring about the rest of the needed expenses.
Many years ago, I had a dream in my heart to send Christian missionaries into the tennis world, particularly to tennis tournaments, in order to share the Gospel. Tennis is such a Godless sport. Selfishness & hatefulness abound unchecked.
To know a young, teenage WTA ranked player has just accepted Christ Jesus as her Lord and Savior after hearing the Good News through the efforts of International Christian Tennis Association missionaries is something that dramatically impacted me this week.
This young lady, this new Christian!, has the potential to reach many people in her own sphere of influence... parents, coach, peers. As her WTA ranking reaches the top, God may use her in new ways to reach a vast audience.
Along the way, I look forward to watching God work in her life to show her a sense of real purpose, and to reach others for Him.
ICTA's Womens Pro Tennis Team will travel to Hamilton, Canada soon for a mission trip to an ITF $25,000 tournament.
The missions team for this mission trip will be Rach and Mel. Please keep these girls in your prayers that they will reach others for Him.
God bless,
Scott Paschal
www.christiantennis.net
