Street Soccer 945: Raod to the Street Soccer USA Cup 2009: FC Watershed

FC Watershed is a soccer team formed out of Watershed Church. Heidi Snyderburn contacted me this winter to get herself and her team involved with our progam. So on a Tuesday afternoon in February we met at Freedom Park and started playing soccer together. That soccer match then turned into a monthly meeting where sometimes we played against each other and other times we mixed together and played and sometimes we just talked and kicked the ball around together. The relationships that have formed between players has been a stablizing force for our team members and Watershed has truly reached out to us to get to know us. They have treated us as friends and as people and have gone the extra mile to invest in the lives of our team and community. The team has been super in their support recently helping field teams to scrimmage us in the 4 on 4 street soccer style that we will be playing in DC. They have prepared us well.

Pasted here are a few words from Heidi about their soccer team and their experience playing with us:

Watershed is a church where urban lives intersect the Divine, where compassion, conversation, and creativity coalesce, where relationships go beyond surface level and where ALL walks of life converge.

An expression of Watershed’s pursuit in these areas is by way of its developing relationship within the homeless community of Charlotte through the vehicle of soccer. For the past 6 months, Watershed’s soccer team, FC Watershed, has teamed up with Urban Ministry’s homeless soccer team, Street Soccer 945.

The two soccer teams have been scrimmaging and practicing together to prepare the 945team for the Street Soccer USA Cup in Washington, DC. The relationships built in these environments have, over time, morphed into mentoring opportunities and friendships. The partnership of FC Watershed and Urban Ministry’s 945 Team are setting an example to the greater Charlotte area that hope and transformation for it’s homeless community are possible and within reach.

Watershed is a part of our soccer family. Thier support makes our journey to Washington so much more special because we know that they are counting on us to make them proud. We will be thinking about you guys. Thanks for your support.