From the Touchline

There is perhaps no one else within football, that has as important a role or with whom it is necessary to earn and maintain trust as the athletic trainer or phyiso. It is this role which keeps the athlete fit and healthy. It is the trainer who often takes up the mantle of helping an athlete continue on a path toward recovery after a surgery or struggling through a particular type of injury or strain. The athletic trainer also cooperates to promote and cultivate prevention of physical injury.

This prayer is a blessing for the hands of the trainer. It is a prayer of blessing that a chaplain might pray over a trainer at the start of a season or prior to a day’s work. It may even be a prayer of blessing that a trainer prays over his or her hands before working on an athlete.

This week’s Timothy Project update features video of Cherry Hills Community Church and their trip to Czech Republic earlier this summer as part of the Timothy Project program where they requested several indoor soccer balls for their camp. The team touched many young men’s lives. Read the final update here.

If you would like to make a contribution to projects like these please note Timothy Project in your donation and use the Donate Now link to make a secure PayPal donation. Your financial gift helps to secure additional equipment, sponsor a missionary or organization in an outreach effort, and to cover associated costs of providing bibles, soccer equipment, and other outreach tools locally and around the world!

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CrossTraining Director, Brad Kenney along with board and staff members pray over the Valor Guatemala team.

Last night, a team comprised of CrossTraining staff and board members visited the Valor Christian High School team as they packed and prepared to head off to Zacapa, Guatemala this Saturday June 6. The Valor team had reached out to CrossTraining and applied for the Timothy Project. Danny Brooks, a Spanish teacher and soccer coach at the school, asked the organization to  provide them  soccer gear to hand out to the people there.

CrossTraining’s Executive Director, Brad Kenney, interviewed Laura Shultz one of the female team leaders who is going on the trip. She said the team would be down there for  a total of  28 days. She also said that though she had never been down to Guatemala her parents had gone a few years back, and that they brought loads of soccer gear down with them.

During their time down in Guatemala, they will be taking Spanish classes to help with the language barrier. They will also be performing skits which the CrossTraining team got to see part of and think that the people will be left with a smile on their face after watching it.

Deflated balls fill a duffel bag being packed for Guatemala

As the CrossTraining team watched the Valor team pack they were delighted to see all the gear and equipment gained packed and sorted into different bags and suitcases from the Timothy Project and that others had donated. The Valor team is taking close to six duffle bags full of used soccer gear and 20 new soccer balls down to Guatemala.

Not only is the Valor team going to pass out soccer gear, but their chief goal is to get to know the culture as they are down in the area. They also want help to try and minister to the people and show them that God loves them. The team ultimately wants to help grow the global church.

Full duffel bags wait out the Colorado rainstorm on their way to Guatemala.

As the team is down there they will be blogging about their adventures and they will also have updates on how the project is going. The team would like to ask supporters to keep them in their prayers as the language barrier could be quite a hindrance.

You can still make a contribution to offset the costs for the Valor Guatemala 2015. Please note (Timothy Project: Valor Guatemala 2015) in your online donation. Please use the Donate Now link to make a secure PayPal donation. Your financial gift will help pay for the cost of the new soccer balls for the team.

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– Contributed by Isabella Burton

Intern, CrossTraining

We encourage our supporters to take a look at some fun video of members of Bethel Orphanage playing soccer indoors in Juarez, Mexico. You can check out our original story and follow up story and also some additional pictures by clicking the hyperlinks.

If you would like to support future Timothy Project ventures, such as this one, please use the PayPal link below to make a donation. Your financial gift helps to secure additional equipment, sponsor a missionary or organization in an outreach effort, and cover associated costs of providing bibles, soccer equipment, and other outreach tools locally and around the world!

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