Soccer Camp.

For the last several Saturdays and hopefully for many more to come, a group of us including three Americans and the rest Rwandans have been putting on a soccer camp from 7-2 in the afternoon that serves a bunch of Rwandan boys ages 5-23. The original connection was my friend George. For the last year George has been giving up three nights a week literally on no salary (he currently does not have a job and is not being sponsored to work with kids) to go and play soccer with a bunch of street boys from the Kycuiro area. He is absolutely a Young Life leader in the making and doesn't even know it. George's sole purpose for getting together with these boys is to just hangout with them, build relationships with them, and share Christ with them, but with so many boys (40+), in the last few months, he has begun to start to see that this is bigger then what he can handle. After meeting the YL Africa country director in September, George started praying for people to help him and to come along side him to help with all these boys he continues to take on. Within in only a few weeks after George started noticing this need that our friend Kent came up with the idea to hold a camp every Saturday morning for Rwandan boys where we would do training, play games, meet with the boys in small groups, and share a devotional. It was pretty unbelieveable because also within a month this camp had started to take place to serve not just George's many boys but also my twelve or so as well. Also, George's prayer for more people to help him was definitely answered. It is no longer George who is working with these boys, but every Saturday around eight to twelve men have begun to help all of which come from several different denominations and local churches. I think between the group of us leaders there is probably six different churches and denominations taking part. The grounds are also owned by Youth for Christ, so as it seems everyone is working together and really doing something meaningful for this group of boys.