The Timothy Project: Valor Guatemala 2016 tour has finished and we share this final update and photos with CrossTraining supporters. Valor Team Leader Danny Brooks and the team of students and adult volunteers spent nearly two weeks working with the poor and impoverished in Zacapa. Brooks wrote a brief final update with some pictures to tell the story of the team's time in Guatemala. We are SO thankful for CrossTraining Ministries that allows us to make a huge impact in Guatemala...Soccer is such an important part of our ministry in Guatemala.  This year, our team  continued ministry to a local soccer team of young men that live in the impoverished neighborhood called “The Canal.”  Getting their daily water from an infested nearby

Forge sent two teams out this past summer on international mission and training trips. Their Timothy Project request was for a team to Honduras and a team to Mexico. This Timothy Project: Forge Mexico 2016 final update comes from the team that spent time in Saltillo and Toluca, Mexico serving and ministering to people there. The team consisting of young adult students from across the U.S. and internationally, were putting into practice the biblical training and team building that is part of Forge's discipleship process designed to launch young people back into their local communities. Lisa, one of the Forge team leaders wrote about the team's experience, The jerseys and equipment added such a fun and special surprise blessing to our trip!  Our highlight was being

With a relatively short time, the Timothy Project: Valor Kenya 2016 request that came in at the end of May and the fulfillment before leaving mid-June had some wonderful results. We share just a brief part of the story in this Timothy Project: Valor Kenya 2016 Final Update. You can follow along with their travel log for the team of Valor students and teachers, here. Team Lead, Greg Blake, had this to share in a final update from the team (along with the pictures below):   First, let me tell what a huge blessing the jersey's and soccer balls were to the students in Kenya.    We distributed the equipment to three different locations: the Masai School at Oldonyonyoke, the youth center at

In early June, we told you about a new Timothy Project: Piedras Negras 2016  where CrossTraining Associate Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids, Cesar Duran was headed to his hometown for vacation and requested to take jerseys to the annual conference being held for pastor's in the United Methodist Church Annual Conference. Duran took 200 adult-sized jerseys to give to the pastors, many of whom live on a small wage and are pastors to their churches. Chaplain Duran shares his joy and report below: I praise God because I am part of CrossTraining ministry and serve God through chaplaincy. CrossTraining made me remember my times as a Chaplain and pastor of a congregation in the past. I called Project Piedras Negras to

Last year, CrossTraining announced the Timothy Project: Liberia 2015 and the goal of Liberian Institute for Empowerment (L.I.F.E.) to fill a shipping container from Colorado to send to Liberia with soccer equipment and school supplies. CrossTraining initially gave over 500 pieces of soccer equipment including Colorado Rapids jerseys, cones, training vests, backpacks, and cleats for the container project. Then, in May 2016, CrossTraining was able to provide an additional 300 jerseys to add to the container before loading day. You can see some of the photos from L.I.F.E.'s blog here of the loading of the container. With the container en-route, Director Thomas Fahn will be heading to Liberia in early August to meet the container in Monrovia. L.I.F.E.'s mission is to assist in