Guatemala Campa3D 2011 November 18, 2011

The sights and sounds of  Guatemala whizzed by as we travelled to the Villa Nueva soccer field.  Large buses filled with workers, truck drivers leaning on their horns, petrol fumes, Coca Cola signs,  McDonald’s, even a few Pizza Hut delivery bicycles were spotted along our way.   After months of planning, it is time for Campa 3D 2011, our second run at faith based soccer camps.  This time it is a bit different because Guatemalan coaches are joining the camp, with the intent of learning how the prinicples of loving God with body, mind and spirit can apply to soccer.   In this part of the world, soccer rules.  Yet bringing God into this sport arena is as unfamiliar to them as the entire traffic system here, is to us.  One thing is certain, it works, their crazy trafic flow, and our unfailing God.  But will it work here, now, during this camp, at the Villa Nueva field?  If the first day of camp is any indication, the answer is a resounding yes!  75 kids came in the morning and another group of 40 in the afternoon.  Both sessions were incredible; t-shirts for all of the kids and coaches, clean water, snacks, balls, pinnies, and cones for dividing the field… the essentials for a soccer camp…orchestrated entirely by SEPAL.  The coaches lead devotions, prayers were lifted up,  and the kids experienced a new kind of soccer.  Thank you Lord!

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