This week, we hosted
several boys from our neighbourhood on our sports field at Diguna Mbagathi and
conducted football training sessions. There were kids from roughly the same
neighbourhood but from variously endowed families. Some were from really poor
families and couldn’t afford football shoes or other football kit, whereas some
had the recommended football kit.
We had the opportunity
to be with them for four days although some of us couldn’t make it on some of
the days. Some of the kids who came on the first day disappeared and never
returned while some who had never come before arrived on the last day. We taught
them various aspects of football (soccer) such as ball control, passing,
shooting and also had some conditioning exercises.
The highlight of the
whole thing for me was having kids from other religions also attending the
sessions and they got to listen to the Gospel. They were taught that God loves
them and has a plan for each and every one of them, and then they were taught
football. Although they came barefooted, they did not leave with bare hearts,
for they were fed the very Word of God and we pray that this barefooted hope
will someday mature into a well-dressed reality.
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