Vancouver,Canada ?

O.K. When I was asked to go on a missions trip to put on a soccer camp I was like alright I'm going to Africa and then I was told it would be Canada. Then when I told my lovely and wonderful wife that I was going on a missions trip she said you better not be going to Africa before me. Then I told her it was Canada she started to make fun and pick at me. And then she said "I thought you said you were going on a missions trip?"

I started to look up stuff on Vancouver and I did not find much on it. So when our team met at the church on sat. July 7 to head to the airport I didn't know what to think.

Our team was as followed : Screen-saver (Kevin J), Chris Angle (Craig B), T-Money (Tony G), Drop it like it hot Wilkerson (Kerry), The Midget Trainer ( Shawn W), Lamar-Lenard (Lamont B), G P S (Trent S), Hope B, Joe-David and Emily W, Shaun and Lynn R, Jason D, and myself.

We flew into Seattle then drove into Vancouver. When we got to the hotel it was 2:30am (Thanks Shaun) and we had to be at the church at 10am. We made it there just a little late, but we made it.


On the way to the church we got are first taste of what we had in store for us. We passed a part of the city they call "Skid Row" and at one of the corners they had a bunch of people doing drugs and one lady was tripping out on something. This street was right down from a police station.

We got with the Pastor of the church we were partnering with for the soccer camp and he took us to where the camp would be held, all of us were like "oh my goodness!" The soccer field that we would be holding the camp on was the same turf stuff that the Saints play on and The B C Lions, The CFL Football team that won Grey Cup last year (our version of the Super Bowl) was right next to the soccer field.



Now we were not sure how many kids were gonna show up to this camp. The pastor said they passed out about 50 or so fliers but had not got any back. But we know that some people will just show up to the camp. Thanks HPC for preparing us for that. We had a little meeting and prayer that night and went to bed.

Monday morning we made it to the site and prayed over the field as we looked for needle's. We were told that there was an exchange house that people could take used needle's and get new ones. We checked the field everyday and never found any on the field. But we did find some by the entrance to the field. That day we had about 10 kids show up so we sent some of the crew out to the neighborhood and get some kids over. They went to parks and the mall and any where they could think of that day we had two more kids show up. After the camp we went back out and hit the neighborhood pool and some more parks and just walked the streets and handed out fliers.

That night we worked the soup kitchen not very far from were we had camp. The people that do it are called Night Shift, they have 30 different church's that help out and they serve food 365 days a year rain or shine. They do it all off donations. Carole ask me the other day what was my favorite thing about the trip and I told them it was when we work the soup kitchen. That night there was about 75 people that we loved on and served. We did the soup kitchen on Thursday night also..

More to come later