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Entries from June 2009

New Jersey teen Lucas Weissman sets example in youth leadership

June 30th, 2009 · No Comments

New Jersey teen Lucas Weissman sets example in youth leadership 13-year old Lucas Weissman from Milburn, New Jersey organized a PeacePassers fundraiser at the Sports Academy (www.the-sports-academy.com) on June 24th, 2009. The event was to raise awareness and collect soccer supplies for PeacePassers.  With this event Lucas took the opportunity to encourage his friends to […]

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Tags: Donations · Events · News

Peace Passin’ in the parking lot

June 24th, 2009 · No Comments

PeacePassers would like to wish safe travels to volunteer Kari Cope (who also traveled to Haiti back in March 2009) as she is now crossing borders again this June 2009, taking 2 bags full of PeacePassers gear to her destination in Zambia. Kari and a longtime friend are going on a special trip with World […]

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Tags: Donations · Travel Logs

Matthews United Methodist Visits Colombia

June 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The PeacePassers team would like to thank the mission group from Matthews United Methodist Church (Matthews, NC) for volunteering to take 24 PeacePasser soccer balls to Bocachica, Colombia on their recent trip in May 17-24th , 2009.
Jeannette Coggins (Matthews UMC) tells PeacePassers “It was a very successful mission trip.  This was the third trip to […]

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Tags: Donations · Travel Logs

Peace Passers Futsal UK Team Crowned League Winners

June 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Peace Passers would like to congratulate the Peace Passers UK Futsal Team from Swindon, England on winning the men’s season one league. The team (pictured below) are wearing Peace Passers T-Shirts as their uniforms. The t-shirts can be purchased on our website by clicking here

(back row: L to R) Liam Sutton, Andy Hallet, Lee Jones
(front […]

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Tags: News · press

North Meck Soccer Club ‘96 Boys Honor Coach

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

CHARLOTTE, NC - The North Meck Soccer ‘96 Boys Red team honored their coach, Kevin Flanagan, with a donation to Peace Passers.  This donation will support another season of the boys 10-14 year old futsala league in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. To document the dedication, Peace Passers had a local artist paint the North […]

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Tags: Donations · News