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My name is Alex Ruston. I am the Coordinator for You're Amazing Sports Outreach.  My dream is to reach young athletes to challenge and encourage to use your time as a high school athlete to find who you are and who God has called and created you to be.  Right now in our country sports consume our culture, we are willing to give everything we have to the game.  Sports gives us a sense of purpose and an identity, but what happens when the game comes to an end? Are you left with a deeper sense of purpose? A deeper sense of identity?  Or did all fade away when the game came to an end? 

This was the conflict that I felt and where my missionary call was born.  Growing up I loved sports and throughout high school I played football, basketball, and baseball.  From the outside I was living my high school dream.  I was the starting quarterback on the football team and was on a state championship basketball team!  However, during this time interiorly it was one of the most challenging times of my life. Why? Because I put all of my identity in a game that was soon coming to an end.  I was lost and deeply unfulfilled, left without a sense of purpose and an identity that was shaken because I forgot who I was at my core.  God met me at that place to remind me who I am and who he has called and created me to be.  This is when my life was transformed because for the first time I came to know that I am a Son of God and the call for my life was far more than the game!