Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Soccer Dreams

This past week our office decided to participate in a seed project for a neighborhood in Horna C'Kasa.  This is a slum region just outside the city of Sucre.  The FH office has worked in Horna C'Kasa for about 6 years and with the help of a US based church has started a soccer school for youth.  With the goal of helping develop the God given gifts and talents of soccer in these boys the school has really been a blessing to the neighborhood.  

A challenge for many of the boys in the school is finding shoes to wear at soccer practice.  Many come from broken families who have little to no money to invest in soccer cleats.  Thus, they try to practice in sandals or bare-feet.  Our office decided as a seed project that we would purchase a pair of new soccer cleats for each child in the school.  This past week we shared a few testimonies of some Christian soccer professionals, talked to them about perseverance and dreams, and presented a pair of cleats to each boy.  A smile is worth a thousand words.        

Prayer time.  Thanking God for what he has provided


Trying on for size


Our group for the office and the boys