Play For Hope

So we now have six more days before flying out early Sunday afternoon. 

Here's what we will be doing this week.

We will be holding a two day soccer tournament in Rwanda's national 

stadium (so the most important stadium in the country).  We have the

stadium for FREE and will only have to pay to paint lines on the field.  There

will be three divisions (young boys, girls, and older boys) and each division

will have four teams.  The semifinal matchups will be played on Wednesday

and the finals will be on Thursday.  Today and tomorrow will be spent on 

tourney prep.  

The neat thing about the tournament is that we will have a combination of

street kids, orphans, and school kids playing together to promote unity among

kids of different walks of life.  

Following the tournament, there will be THE Kigali Hope Festival held by the 

Luis Palau Association (an American evangelist org. that we are partnered with)

on Friday and Saturday, also in the stadium.  Our role will be running sport 

activities both days for the children.  Now this is crazy because we are expecting

thousands of kids both days.  Play For Hope will have help from other American

missionaries so we wont be alone but this should still be a chaotic two days.

The festival ends Saturday night and the team flys out on Sunday.  (We currently

have six team members but one will fly out this Thursday and another this

Friday.)