Daniel wrote a bit below about his experience with soccer camp.   He has done a fabulous job bringing his 7-12 year old kids into a world where sportsmanship and working together as a team matter, and it has been fun watching the teams come together.   They also learned Bible memory verses about salvation, and were able to recite them by the time camp was over.  Soccer camp ended a few weeks ago, but the memories and lessons will endure.

Daniel and Cakito (a local 17 year old Haitian boy associated with Makarios) led 5 teams of boys for practices and scrimmages for 4 weeks, and then we had a final tournament!

Game 1 of the Quarterfinals:

Game #1: Red vs Green

The game started out with bright blue skies, and a relatively green field.  It has been raining every night that week, so the field was deceptively muddy.  Game #1 was Montellano vs Pancho Mateo, Green vs Red.  The teams played well, and ended up tied requiring a shoot-out at the end.

Red vs Green shoot out

Pancho's goalie isn't going to let anything get by him

Daniel and Cakito The red team ended up winning with the only goal during the shoot out.

On to the Semifinals!

Semifinal Game #1: Red/Blue vs Black  (Montellano vs Pancho Mateo)

At this point, the kids were playing more of mud soccer.  Always fun!

The Austin Stone group was here cheering the players on to victory.

There was some intense concentration going on, before finally the blue team won.  To celebrate?  Why, jump in a mud puddle of course!