April 22, 2011, Mexico City, Mexico… Benjamin Garcia/IAD
This week the “UM Tu Club” (Your Montemorelos University Club), one of the church’s largest virtual clubs, put on a skateboarding show. The club, which is coordinated by Montemorelos University, seeks to integrate skateboarding Pathfinders with other skateboarders from around the world.
The event was held in the skateboarding area of Ciudad Deportiva. There were around 130 people present for two rounds. A group of 20 campers from various clubs showed their skills and lived together with five non-Adventist young people from the city who have more experience in this sport.
Juan Jorge Acuña, Montemorelos University’s marketing and recruiting director, is responsible for UM Tu Club. He said the kind of activities done by the virtual club presents Montemorelos University as an institution that loves young people.
“Aside from preparing them for life with a career, the university offers them a Christian co-existence with multiple benefits, like that of making friends forever,” he said.
Among the young participants was one adult, Ricardo Torres Gutierrez, a member of Padierna Adventist Church in Mexico City.
Although he is 50 years old, Torres says age is not a drawback to participating in the sport, which he learned when he was younger. Now he has taken it up again.
For Torres, it is a good sport, amusing and not very expensive. He practices every Sunday.
“It fills me, it meets my emotions… and I invite you wherever you are, to lift up the names of the Adventists, and even more, that of Christ our Savior,” said Torres, who asked his boss to get time off from work to attend the camporee. He became aware of this event through his daughters who are members of their local Pathfinder club.
The show also served to witness to the non-Adventist young men invited to attend the Adventist church as they were promised to be prayed for because the non-Adventist young men were invited to visit the Adventist church and were promised to be prayed for.
