Monday, May 23

(As the days blend together, it seems that the only thing that can keep things straight is when I sit down with my journal to think about it.)

Our finance meeting lasted a total of 4 hours today. As revealed by the lord through our meeting, we found that this program has little to no sustainable programs. The fact of the matter is almost all work here is completely voluntary. What administrators eventually came to realize through our discussions, is why should they spend all the $$ on the soccer team when they could spend it on the discouraged volunteers who have to back off their responsibilites because they have no job and have a family to support. Even Nicholas, one of the soccer players who has been extremly helpful here at LOH with my water sanitation project, spoke up that he believe in the interest of LOH, unless improvements were made, he believed the soccer team should be dropped.

Nic is a 23 year old carpenter, who had a 11th grade education before dropping out. His english is pretty good, and he wears his hair like Ronaldinho. He's cool calm and collected, what I found so interesting about the statement he made was why he did it with a lot of conviction. Here was a plyaer, who once confided in me that his goal in life at this current point due to his lack of education and due to his lack of support from his family, was to become a professional soccer player. This team his one of his main opportunities to move on to the next level and showcase his talents ( he's one of the best players on the team). And here he was willing to lay it all on the line and say that if it was God's will he was willing to drop the dream via LOH for the good of the organization. He was an individual with true faith. It's moments like these that really make me stop and think what am I willing to give up for the Lord.

In the evening the Lord gave me an opportunity to speak with some of the coaches. The Lord opened their hearts in my opinion, because I'm not sure otherwise if they would have accepted my opinions abut how the team needed not just the discipline in practice and on the field, but that it needed the discipline that the organization represented. This Saturday we are hoping to plan a workshop for the players for them to truly understand what LOH does to serve the community, because we believe maybe even some of the players don't understand what sort of services the organization that they have played for and freeloaded equipment and gameplay off of for the last 2 or 3 years.;