Thanks to the generosity of Mission of Hope, Haiti (www.mohhaiti.org,the amputee Soccer team enjoyed a week of concentrated training from Sept. 13 to the 17th.
They had two practices a day, ate 4 meals a day and had a great time of team-building in preparation for the World Cup that starts on Oct. 17th.
The Mission of Hope provided free lodging and daily transportation to the training field, in addition to serving two meals a day.
Ronald William, head coach of AIS Haiti stayed with the team day and night the whole week while the team's coach trained with the team 3 out of the 5 days. Ronald's fiance cooked the noon meal and also did laundry each day.
Rich drove out to be with the team on Thursday and helped them organize a exhibition match against a US mission team that was at the camp, as well as a local soccer team. About 300 people came to watch these games, and afterwards, Rich and Pastor Evens were able to talk to them about praying for the team, and also share the Good News of Christ with the spectators.
On Thursday Rich stayed the night with the team and showed a Power Point about Amputee Soccer and also an evangelistic film called "Le Combat".
The next morning the team had their final practice from 6 AM to 9 AM. After that was a trip to a local beach for 3 hours where the team had a great time playing in the water and adding one more memory to a great week.
Please continue to pray for the team as the still need to raise quite a bit of money before they will have enough to go to Argentina.
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