Adams will head to Central America for Mission work

Former Wildcat soccer player Chance Adams is trading in his cleats for a plane ticket.

After much internal debate and soul searching, Adams recently made the decision to forgo the soccer scholarship offered to him by Northwest University in favor of missionary internship in El Salvador.

“I wasn’t feeling at peace with the decision to take the scholarship and I felt like God was calling me to do something else with my life,” Adams said. “My dad presented me with a few options. He said I could go back to Northwest for the spring semester, enroll at FVCC or I could do a missions trip. The missions trip was the option that really stood out to me.”

Adams’s internship will be with Envision, a ministry of the Christian & Missionary Alliance, and will see him return to the country of El Salvador where he already has experience at the Envision Wired base in the city of San Salvador. Adams first visited the base on a mission trip four years ago, along with 23 other members of Fellowship Alliance Church, when they made the trip to San Salvador to help build houses there.

“It was a great experience and it got me introduced to the idea of missions and traveling,” Adams said. “It’s a very pretty place, if you can get over the litter and garbage that is everywhere. It is very green a tropical and the people are very nice.”

This time around, Adams would leave for El Salvador in March and not return until August.

The El Salvador trip is not Adams’s only international experience, he also made a trip with his church to help teach English in Russia last summer.

This time around, Adams will be working high school and junior high aged kids, helping teach English and soccer, as well as partnering with local churches to help with their ministries.

Adams says he has saved up about $1,000 of the the $7,500 needed for the trip with his job at Super 1 and will be looking to raise the rest of the money needed for the five-month trip with help from his friends and family as he looks to do what he feels is right.

“It was hard to walk away from soccer after putting so much time and effort into it. I realized I was not there for the reasons I wanted and I felt that playing college soccer was not what God wants me to be doing right now,” he said. “It was tough calling the coach to let him know, but I was doing what needed to be done.”

For more information on Adams’s trip and to make a donation, visit www.envisionchance.blogspot.com.