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A few weeks ago, Cooper Floto and a team of volunteer coaches, from his high school soccer team, The Denver Eagles, as well as volunteers from my Boy Scout Troop, Troop 794 decided to host a soccer camp for the children of the Shiloh House and reached to CrossTraining's Timothy Project program for help. The camp was originally designed to take place at the Colorado Miners Community Center near Denver with about 15 - 20 kids between nine and ten twelve years old. But, as you read more of the story below, there were some unexpected moments and changes that happened as part of the camp. Floto wrote to CrossTraining to let us know how the camp went and the Timothy

Three weeks ago, twenty-three friends from Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church (CCPC) gathered in the chilly pre-dawn to pray before heading south down the interstate.  Caravanning in four cars and pulling a trailer loaded with tools, soccer gear, and VBS decorations, the team headed to Juarez, Mexico, for a week-long mission trip. CCPC has been serving alongside the same pastor and church in Juarez for the past twenty-eight years.  Pastor Jorge Mata, La Iglesia Maranatha, and CCPC together build a house for a family in need and lead Vacation Bible School for the neighborhood children.  Most years, only a few of the Americans can speak any Spanish - but through their common goals, lots of hand gestures, and plenty of good

The Shiloh House isn't just a house - it's not just one house and it's not your typical house. It has a special purpose. It's mission is to offer nurturing, therapeutic and educational services to empower youth and families to overcome the impact of abuse, neglect and trauma. And for Cooper Floto, his hope is that a soccer camp will be part of the healing process for the children who currently call Shiloh House their home. Floto, as part of his Eagle project for Boy Scouts, will be running a soccer camp for the children at the Shiloh House.  With volunteers from his high school soccer team, The Denver Eagles, as well as volunteers from my Boy Scout Troop, Troop 794. The camp

Last month, 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. Currently, CrossTraining has been able to collect over 500 pieces of soccer equipment including Colorado Rapids jerseys, cones, training vests, backpacks, and cleats for the container project. L.I.F.E.'s mission is to assist in meeting the basic need of the children, youth, and the elders in the Gola Konneh district through the container project. L.I.F.E. continues to collect school supplies, text books, soccer equipment and other basic necessities in an effort to fill the 40-foot container. The hope and intention was to ship the container by mid-October

In just a couple of weeks, a volunteer team of 23 members from Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church will travel to Juarez, Mexico, for a week-long partnership with a local, Mexican church (La Iglesia Maranatha). For CCPC, this partnership with the pastor and church has been ongoing for some 25 years. The volunteer team will be assisting local church members with several construction projects in the neighborhood and also hosting a Vacation Bible School for local children. The team expects to reach out to upwards of 70 children during the VBS time. In addition to the church and the VBS, La Iglesia Maranatha also runs a community kitchen that visits local schools and identifies and feeds impoverished students a healthy lunch every day - kids who

Ann Nerney and the team from  Cherry Hills Community Church have returned from Juarez, Mexico and share the following Timothy Project: Mexico 2015 final update. Their team received a donation of nearly 30 soccer balls and many uniform jersey's from the Colorado Rapids via the Timothy Project. Ann and her team were down in Juarez, for four days (9/22 – 9/26) and during that time they built a cafeteria for a middle school, freeing up the previous cafeteria which was really small to become a classroom.  The project provided 32 students a new classroom, and also enabled staff to feed the 350 students at a regular lunch shift.  Previously, the small cafeteria could only seat 20-25 students, 20 minutes at a time -