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Timothy Project – Valor Costa Rica 2018 Final Update

Timothy Project: Soccer players from Valor Christian High School traveled back to Tamarindo, Costa Rica in March 2018 to continue the mission they began years ago, to touch people with the love of Christ through soccer and building homes. The team partners with Mercy Homes Ministries through which they work with locals to build homes for families in need and stay focused on the mission at hand.

The team of nearly 30, including Soccer Chaplain United’s Executive Director, Brad Kenney, spent their days building homes and their evenings running soccer clinics.  Two homes were built during thier time in Tamarindo.  Valor senior and varsity player, Nicole Wright, wrote about her experience,

We built two houses for two families – one of the families was living in a tin shack prior to this trip and the other family’s home recently burned down in an electrical accident.

Wright adds, One of my favorite memories was the dedication of the two completed houses at the end of the trip. Even though we experienced a grueling schedule (8 hours of construction followed by 2 hours of soccer outreach almost every day), my team and I were able to accomplish incredible things in the name of the Lord during our time in Costa Rica.

In addition to building two houses, the team collected and transported almost 40 large duffel bags worth of soccer gear from local schools, clubs, ministries, and families – nearly 2000 pounds of balls, cleats, shin guards, gloves, and training gear.  All the gear carried from Denver to Tamarindo is used for the soccer outreach, the soccer clinics and is left for the community. To read more of the story please visit this Valor link.

To see previous stories about this trip see Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2018 – Return to Tamarindo and Timothy Project 2018: Full Bags for Costa Rica.

To support Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2018 or future Timothy Project ventures please donate through PushPay — simply select Timothy Project from the selectable funds to contribute to. Your financial gift helps us purchase new soccer equipment, sponsor an individual 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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Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2018 – Return to Tamarindo

Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2018 will see Coach Brian Shultz return to Tamarindo, Costa Rica with his Valor Christian High School soccer players for a second time this March.  Soccer Chaplains United Executive Director, Brad Kenney, will join the team which consists of 20 players and eight leaders from the school’s soccer programs.  Kenney serves as the Valor Boys Soccer Chaplain.

During their time in Tamarindo, Kenney and the team will build two houses for selected needy families and reach out to the local community through soccer camps and clinics.

Coach Shultz shares why the return trip,

This is our second trip, and we intend to repeat this trip annually or bi-annually. Last year’s trip was an amazing experience, and we hope and pray God will work again in our lives and the lives of those we serve. Tamarindo has gone from being a small fishing village 20+ years ago, to now, it is more of a small, sleepy surfing and tourist town. Behind the tourism, a lot of poverty exists among the locals. Valor Soccer is partnering with Casa Vida Church and Pastor Alex Bejarano to build “Mercy” homes for needy families that the church has identified.

The Valor soccer players will be able to share their love of soccer with the local children.  The poverty is great so adequate soccer gear is not a reality for the people of Tamarindo.  Shultz explains how the Timothy Project donations will be used,

We will be reaching out through soccer camps and clinics where we hope to distribute soccer gear to the many children who do not have shoes, cleats, shin guards, or even soccer balls. We also hope to support the local coaches with gear. In the evenings we will do soccer clinics and play FUTCINCO where we will also distribute gear to our opponents and pray with them after the games.

Coach Shultz (far) previews the collected soccer equipment during the team’s pack day in 2017.

To partner again with the Valor Christian High School soccer teams on their spring Discovery Trip is a priviledge for Soccer Chaplains United.  Timothy Project was able partner with the team last year by giving them socks and jerseys and coaches gear.

To support Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2018 or future Timothy Project ventures please donate through PushPay — simply select Timothy Project from the selectable funds to contribute to. Your financial gift helps us purchase new soccer equipment, sponsor an individual 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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Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2017

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For spring break, many high school students in Colorado head for the mountains to ski or go on vacation. But, for one team of students from Valor Christian High School, this spring break will be about serving the poor in Costa Rica and reaching out to a local community through soccer camps and clinics. On March 24-April 2, a Valor Christian High School team of 20 male and female soccer players and 7 leaders will take a missions trip to Tamarindo, Costa Rica.

Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2017Tamarindo, 20 years ago, was a small fishing village. Now, it is more of a small, sleepy surfing town. Surfers from around the world have settled there because of the year-round consistency of the waves. As the town has slowly built up, real estate and tourism have boomed as well. But behind the tourism, a lot of poverty exists among the local “Ticos.” Valor is partnering with Casa Vida church and Pastor Alex Bejerano. In what Valor hopes to be a long term relationship, the team will look to build “Mercy” homes for needy families that the church has identified. Additionally, they will be reaching out through soccer camps and clinics to teach soccer and share the Gospel with people of all ages, from children to adults.

Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2017

Valor will be collecting shoes to distribute in CR

The Valor team is hosting several soccer gear drives on the front end of this trip. Many of the children do not have shoes, cleats, guards, or even soccer balls. In addition, Valor has identified and met with an American, Dani, who has lived in Tamarindo for the last 12 years. Dani has come under the national soccer federation and is beginning to build regional teams for girls and boys. In addition, she has begun to identify and train coaches as well.

Dani (pictured in red) translates to several soccer players in CR

On a recent scouting trip, Valor Christian High School Soccer Head Coach Brian Shultz shared about his meeting with Dani.

She (Dani) wept as she told us she has been praying for a group like ours to come and support what she has been building for the last 12 years. She said God told her that she was sending someone to help her and she has been waiting.

The Valor Christian team intends to repeat this trip annually or bi-annually, but the gear needs are greatest for the first year. Head Coach Shultz reached to CrossTraining to make a Timothy Project request.

This project has the potential to meet the immediate soccer needs of many kids and has a sustainability factor as much of the gear will support Dani and her coaches for years. We have partnered with CrossTraining in a similar fashion for missions trips to Zacapa, Guatemala and we are grateful for the huge provision that occurred then. We would be honored to partner with CrossTraining again.

Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2017 Needs

1. Soccer Balls
2. Gently worn to new cleats, turf shoes, and indoor flats (kid sizes-teen sizes)
3. Coaching gear (pinnies, cones, hand pumps, 1 electric pump, needles, whistles)
4. Jerseys/training shirts for (kids and teens)
5. Kids shin guards
6. soccer socks (kids sizes)

Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2017 Specific Request

  1. 50-100 soccer balls (equal amounts of size 3,4,5)
  2. 100 jerseys and/or training shirts (kids-teen sizes
  3. 200 pairs of new kids and teens soccer socks (gently worn acceptable)
  4. As much gently worn soccer shoes and shin guards as possible
  5. 5-10 futsal balls
  6. 100-200 Disc Cones
  7. 55-110 scrimmage vests (color groups of 11)
  8. whistles (5-10)
  9. hand-held pumps (5-10)
  10. packages of needles for coaches (5-10)
  11. 1 electric ball pump
  12. $50 baggage fee (x3)
  13. 3 large duffels

If you would like to make an additional contribution to this project please note (Timothy Project: Valor Costa Rica 2017) in your donation or if you would like to support future Timothy Project ventures, such as this one, please 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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