The Winkler Diamonds hosted an intriguing end of the week softball tournament for the Youngsters’ Camps Worldwide (CCI). The occasion, which ran from Friday through Sunday, saw fiery support from 12 nearby teams contending to raise funds to send kids to camp.
I trust strongly the significance of sharing the gospel… what we concluded to do is to join connected at the hip to send kids to camp. It’s significant because they’re all Christian camps,” said Harold Espinosa, President of The God Who Sees Me Missions and Sixteeen13 Ministry. “Getting together with CCI is a tremendous blessing and a distinction to serve.
Friday alone raised $20,000, which will assist with sending 5,000 youngsters to globally camp. The weekend highlighted additional fundraising opportunities, including a 50/50 pool, entryway prizes, and a thrilling impetus for the group that got the most donations — box seat tickets to a Goldeyes game.
It’s been loads of tomfoolery, we’re making a solid attempt… I think it [CCI] gives the game a great deal of significance because besides the fact that we having are fun, however we get to realize we’re having an effect in kids’ lives across the world. It makes it tomfoolery and gives it a purpose,” said member Kendra Last.
The tournament was coordinated through a partnership between Kids’ Camps Global and Sixteen 13 Ministry, which gave a food truck selling lunch and supper all through the occasion. This partnership joined volunteers and participants by the shared mission of supporting youngsters’ camps.
At the point when they started the games, we were seeing the local area meeting up once more, they met up… They’re striking a chord, runs to send kids to camp and teams were giving a shout out to one another as they did,” said CCI Leader Chief Dave Thiessen.
Generally, the CCI Softball Tournament gave a few days of sports and tomfoolery and had an effect in the lives of thousands of kids.
