So, one of the more interesting parts of Costa Rica and our time there was seeing the many different animals in the wild. Not usual for someone from Colorado! Sleeping bats in the morning hut where we did devotions. Monkeys dropping mangos on to cars in the hotel parking lot to break them open for a mid-morning snack. Gila monsters crossing the road. Gecko lizards in the luggage and more! One of my favorite moments was seeing a stick bug who had found one of our green walls to have a similar color to a tree. Such a small and fragile feeling creature. An amazing wonder and complement to God's created world. I literally thought a small twig or branch

This past Sunday, the Valor Costa Rica Discovery Team gathered to pack for the trip. All of the collected soccer gear had to be crammed into bags and distributed as the team prepares to head down to Costa Rica. While there, the team will build a couple of homes and host a number of soccer camps and clinics. Parents and families of the team members came later to pray over and commission the team before leaving. After listening to many of the leaders share about the trip, I offered a brief reflection from Isaiah 58, and specifically verses 11 & 12 as an encouragement: The Lord will guide you continually,     giving you water when you are dry     and restoring your

Timothy Project: Valor Christian High School, Kolkata, India 2018.  A vision was cast years ago by a Valor Christian High School Discovery team that has taken root and is beginning to become a reality.  The next team of students and teachers to travel to the slums of Kolkata will continue to grow the boy's soccer program with the dream of establishing a fully sustainable soccer club. Valor alumni, teachers and students desire to reach the boys of the slum with the gospel message.  This is challenging, and retaining them is even more challenging.  John DeYoung, a Valor teacher, came up with an idea that could help solve the dilemma, a soccer program. About three years ago, one Valor Christian Alumni

Timothy Project - Valor Kenya 2017 - Part II  Upon return of Valor's Discovery team from Kenya one of the group's leaders, Toby Coffman, summed up the experience in these three words, "It was awesome." In Part I of our story we stated that the Valor Discovery team would be visiting  a community center and an orphanage in Narobi.  As Coffman reports, "We gave the jerseys and the two indestructible balls (a.k.a. One World Futbols) to the community center in the slums where Anthony Wanjiru, now a staffer at Valor, was taken in as a child."  Wanjiru received invaluable assistance that helped him begin his journey from the slums of Nairobi to high school, college, and a Master’s program. "These

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