The Timothy Project: Czech Republic 2015 final update comes from the team that traveled to the Czech Republic this past summer. If you will recall, CrossTraining – through the Timothy Project – outfitted the team which featured six players and two coaches with indoor soccer balls to use during the indoor portion of the camp. The team has been traveling to CZ for a few years now and hosting soccer camps which are designed to give children an opportunity to start building a foundation with a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Team leader, Greg Hubbard (pictured above, 2nd row, 2nd from right), wrote the following expression of thanks for the contribution of indoor balls,
First and foremost I would like to thank you for your prayers and donations that helped make the 2015 Czech Soccer Camp possible…I had the privilege of having my father attend, as well as another father-son duo, so it was…only fitting for our small group devotional time to be centered around the idea of “Fatherhood” and the story of the Prodigal Son. The players were challenged with questions about their father’s role (or lack there of) in their life and how their perception of their earthly father might unfairly translate on their view of their Heavenly Father.
As the team spent a week in Pisek, American and Czech players participated with the coaches for hours each day in drills and scrimmages aimed at uniting the two cultures alike through the common language of soccer and the devotional times aimed to speak to the heart of the young men in attendance. But the trip wasn’t only impactful for the local young men of Pisek, as Hubbard shared about one of his own team members,
The week ended with a very emotional testimony from one of our members from the Czech leadership team describing how his life reflected that of the prodigal son; mixed up with alcohol and gambling, but found a gracious Heavenly Father who was asking for nothing more of him than to deny his sinful desires and lovingly put his trust in the Lord, just as He had loved us first.
Hubbard and Cherry Hills Community Church have already begun planning and praying for 2016 and future camps and programs. Please keep the team and the lives they have impacted in your prayers.
If you would like to make a contribution to the Timothy Project Program for future projects please note Timothy Project in your donation. You can 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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The Czech Republic is the most atheistic country in Europe with more people claiming to be atheists than members of any organized religion. Years of communist oppression have left the Czech people struggling with the idea of a personal God who cares deeply about them. In the Czech Republic, only one person in three hundred claims to be a Christian. However since the fall of the Soviet Union at the end of the 20th century, a new hope has slowly risen in the Czech Republic, especially among the nation’s youth. Young people throughout Eastern Europe live in a changing world their parents never knew – a place once dominated by government sanctioned atheism, is now filled with opportunity and freedom. The nation’s youth are awakening to a hunger for “something more” that freedom, entertainment and technology cannot fill – a hunger for spiritual fulfillment found only in a personal relationship with a loving God.