July 23, 2009

• Jerusalem Ministry Soccer Camp 2009

  This year Jerusalem Ministry held our 2nd summer 3-day soccer camp for boys from different children's home around Seoul.  In total, we had about 45 boys come out, including a small group of boys from a local community welfare center.  Our volunteers were from five different churches around Seoul and did a stellar job motivating, encouraging, and teaching the kids.  As expected with most events for kids from children homes, the first day was the toughest and some of the boys had poor attitudes or lacked confidence... but as the camp progressed the frowns and complaining quickly turned to big smiles and encouragement.  Enjoy the pictures... I have a ton of them but could only choose "a few."  I will add pictures from our pool time later and hopefully also add video footage.  The camp was a blast!  I am headed off to Myanmar this Saturday for missions and will return August 2.  Please keep me in your prayers.  Enjoy the pics!

  Prayer time during the camp (starting the camp, before meals, and at the end of the day)

  

  

  Go team!  Brazil would end up winning it all...

  

  Lining up the teams before a match... I served as a ref

  

  Team England getting in on the team spirit

  

  Volunteer Roy suddenly finding doing push ups a bit more difficult

  

  I'm not sure what soccer drill this is

  

  Coach Indra with two of his boys

  

  Thirsty...

   

  I think he saw the thirsty boy...

  

  Lunch time... this day we had hot dogs with an amazing variety of toppings

  

  Another lunch time... this day was pizza and cold cuts... both meals were prepared for by the US military and were huge hits with the kids

  

  Kids running at the start of dodgeball (during activity time after lunch)

  

  On the last day, in between the quarterfinals and the championship game, we held a penalty kick challenge with myself and another volunteer Jeff serving as goalies... here is my boy Seung Hwan cranking a shot past me...

  

  His boys cheering him on... their team (England) would win

  

  Happy boys (Real Madrid)

  

  More happy kids

  

  Sportsmanship award recipients with their coaches... all four were from my home!  Woo hoo!!!

  

  White team... Real Madrid

  

  Blue team... Chelsea

  

  Red team... England... they won the penalty kick challenge so they each got water guns as a reward

   

  Yellow team... Brazil... they won the championship and would get a huge meal at an expensive burger joint along with Smoothie King, shoes, and a soccer ball... all sponsored from different stores and restaurants!

  

  With Larry, who directed the camp for the ministry... great job Larry!

  

  The kids and volunteers... we will update with videos and larger pictures on the ministry website soon...

  

  Driving home afterwards with a sleeping Min Shik

  

  God bless!

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