My
role is the urban soccer representative. My vision is to develop a urban soccer
league as a tool to reach the low income families, by focusing on the children
ages 7-12. Our ministry philosophy is to and through coaches. My current role
as the league director of Allen Hills Soccer Academy is to recruit and train
volunteer coaches to love on their players, which live in government housing.
Our
ultimate goal is to see life change and transformation through Jesus Christ in
these coaches and athletes. We have been doing clinics in Allen Hills for a
year and half, which allowed us to raise interest for the sport in the
community and also accumulate volunteers from Atlanta. As of January 2012, we
launched the first season in Allen Hills. I have 6 volunteer coaches that will
coach 12 hours a month until mid-May this Spring season. I will be responsible
for conducting summer camps and other activities with the children and
preparing for the second and third soccer season during the 2012-13 school
year. At this point, I am not concerned about the number of teams or players
involved in our academy as much as I am working to create a positive
environment for these kids to be proud to belong to. The idea is to perfect
this model and replicate it in other low-income communities.
Goals
over the next 5-10 years is to see these children to enter into a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ, break the poverty cycle in their life, go to
college, and then seek to give back to the communities in which they were raised.
HOW EXCITING!
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