update pearl city fc

Preamble Pearl City Soccer Academy and football club started in 2010 as a response to the needs of a hurting people who were recovering from the negative effects of war, poverty and hopelessness caused by the Lord’s Resistance Army Rebels for over two decades. The club participates in football as a major sport with the youths in the community. These youths are exposed to messages on peace, human rights, education, reconciliation, etc hence leading to community transformation. The vision of Pearl City is to empower today’s youths to become committed to the game of football and rise to first class professionals. The mission is transforming local communities through sports for mentorship and discipleship. Our values are Respect, Integrity, Fair play, Accountability, Hard work, and professionalism We would like to report to you what we have done in the past three months and also what we intend to do in the near future: • Airtel Rising Stars 16 teams participated in a knock out tournament. Pearl City triumphed over two teams to qualify for the semi-finals but was unsuccessful to make it beyond citing maltipractices in the officiation of game. Pearl City was the only team that participated in the whole of Acholi Sub-region against 15 teams from the Lango region. Present were Child Restoration Outreach, Young Lira United FC, Young Boroboro FC, Rising stars Oyam, Lira fielded 8 teams as the hosting district and the rest of the districts shared each presenting single teams. Eminent also was the girls’ soccer teams which was called for by the organizers Airtel for every district team to bring one girls team too. However not all the districts managed to take the girls as the cost of maintenance was overwhelming to handle two teams. The competitions were organized by Airtel Uganda one of the leading telecommunication companies active in Uganda in conjunction with Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) at Uganda Technical College (UTC) Lira. Our participation in the Airtel Rising Star competition is one of the ways to achieve our goal as it exposed these youths to other clubs and enabled them to shine. I am glad to report that in the competition three of our players were chosen to participate in the national competition slated to begin this September. A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step, hence we know our journey has started and believe will struggle till we accomplish our goal of molding professionals. Pearl city Airtel Rising Stars squad 2012 • Obua and Otti cup Obua and Otti trophy commenced on the 30th of June, and 1st July was the kick off, a competition that was organized by FUFA and was supposed to attract district clubs from Mid-north i.e. Acholi and Lango regions. This competition is a remembrance of the key persons who have contributed immensely to soccer in Uganda, Obua David and Vincent Otti who died few years ago. The winners were supposed to take home a trophy and 2 million Uganda shillings for the first and 1.5 million for the second and 1 million for third by the courtesy of FUFA and to be awarded by Lawrence Mulindwa the FUFA Chief. Pader as a district participated together with nine other teams for other districts. They included, Otuke, Kole, Lira, Pader, Amolator, Apac, Gulu, Oyam and Alebtong. Pearl City as club fielded six players in the district team where as Pader town council fielded eleven players from different clubs with town council perimeters. This was a tight competition but we expected the boys to deliver. As the district coach, I was not able to accompany the team to Lira as I had tight schedules with office work but was able to send my assistant coach and the FUFA delegate and other persons to represent. We hope this tournament will turn into an annual one and have our players participate for exposure and talent development. David Otti and Vincent Obua (R.I.P) Pearl City Squad June-July Mid-North championship at Uganda Technical Lira However though we have exhibited great success in some of our games and failed in some others, we still have many challenges as club that need intervention. The first challenge is lack of financial support from the district. The district argues that there is no budget for sports in their planning unit. However as the district coach, I have forwarded this concern to the district through the Secretary of fiancé and a budget has been made and hope next year they will cooperate. This cause has led us to seek assistance from development partners and well wishers of which some positively responded. We appeal to every body to come and support us and plans are there to have a special fundraising account for club separate from organization. The availability of training equipments such as soccer cleats, boots as you may call them. The state of our stadiums is appalling, the ground lacks grass and whenever it rains or when it shines a lot, the wear and tare of the boots are too much. The duration is six months if played with reservation, hence many of the players’ cleats are worn out and need new ones. We call upon the sports fraternity, sponsors, promoters, manufacturers of cleats such as adidas, puma, etc to help give back to the poor communities The third need is soccer balls, Pearl City soccer academy is growing steadily, and sincerely speaking we are supporting three teams in three towns and hope to spread to other towns as it is compatible with our organization goals and objectives. We have given out several balls to these clubs and many of which have been donated to us by friends. There also you can partner with us by donating to our club to support our work with the youths. We are continually requesting for partners to provide us with uniforms. Since we also help other teams in the towns, we would like to share with those who lack. Important to note is the fact that our current uniforms need disposal since they have been used a lot and also some are missing. Last but not least is exchange of players from other teams, we hope one day as a club, players across continents would desire to join us this will boost our talent . We are calling for volunteers with coaching skills in football for both girls and boys. If you read this update and you feel you are one, or know some one with such skills please feel free to contact me on www.kingdompearl.org We have received volunteers in the past and they have been a big resource to our training session though they have stayed for short while but hope to have long term volunteers. Also we are calling for passport volunteers with Real Life to visit us and work in our soccer programs and other projects. Our address talks a lot about us. Sign Post Kingdom Pearl Uganda. Mother organization of Pearl City FC Training sessions. The club trains daily starting from Monday to Saturday. All the sessions commence at 5pm so as to allow the school going youths to participate as well since majority are day scholars. The players have the rules that guide their training and try their best to abide to them with the guidance from the coaches. Training for the friendlies with Victoria University club, a club that has qualified to the super league is on, and the MTN under 18 tournaments slated to take place in August this year. Our training this year has been affected by showers in evening hours and this promotes absenteeism. The other hindrance has been lack of jobs for some of the players who are none schooling. These youths instead of coming for training either they would be playing cards or have moved to other places in search of work. Hence as a solution, there is need to create some income generating activities (IGA’S) to provide employments and also to entice them to develop their sports abilities. Visiting volunteer conducting physicals with the team at our stadium Website reconstruction and blog We would like to apologize to the public and all those who read our updates and view the Kingdom Pearl Uganda website, which is apparently not available. We encourage viewers to leave a comment in response to this update for clarity. For more information on this you may contact me, or Jeffrey Wickham who is the site designer to answer your queries. My email address is kingdompearlsmin@gmail.com or +256-756-720-308 Cell phone or visit us on twitter, twitter@ kingdom pearls, or Godwin Kalinte on facebook. I wanted to bring it to your attention that we are planning to organize the website by including the kingdompearlsmin blog and also to create .another blog for the soccer academy, twitter account, face book. The aim of this is for our viewers to have almost everything on the same page and this will help others to know what we are doing. Volunteers program This month we are expecting a volunteer team from the World Race or Real Life, who will be staying and supporting us in our various projects for one month. It is not the first time, but the third time we are receiving such teams and are honored to partner with them. The volunteers assist in projects like soccer, education, livelihood, working in the office to organize data, mentoring young men and women, witnessing in the churches, visiting the poor in the communities. This month also were privileged to receive two aspiring missionaries from USA, Kayla, and Allana Coxwell from Auburn, Alabama. They came to help with work at Tabitha project. They were working mainly working with the children. It has been a good time to watch them working and our prayer to God is to help them to identify their calling. They have visited our program and seen the youth play soccer and we hope before they go they will have time to speak into their lives. Our volunteer programs purpose is to promote cultural exchange between national and international youths. Through it, youths from different parts of the world come to share experiences, knowledge, challenges and together they work out solutions. It also enables them to appreciate one another’s culture despite of the fact that cultures differ in many ways. Also the nationals pick some good elements from their counterparts hence the reverse is true. Through cultural exchanges connections are built and opportunities for jobs, socialization and others are enhanced hence leading to social and economic development of the country. We are integrating a human rights program to include every one despite their differences. Every one is created uniquely and is a creation of God and ought to enjoy their God given rights with minimal interference. Volunteers enjoying coffee at office while taking off time for reflections Mentorship Pearl City soccer program’s mission is to promote sports for mentorship. Youths from all ways of life are equipped with knowledge, skills to help them succeed in their lives. The community they live in observes a positive change in their lives and hence they can transform others. The youth are exposed to spiritual counseling from experts socially, economically and spiritually from different parts of the world. This shapes their character and enables them to be accountable to the community they live in. The youth are taught from a mentorship curriculum and which takes a year and a half, and certificates are awarded to each of them on completion of the course. Team receiving words of wisdom (mentorship) from Godwin and Okello flanked by on lookers Special thanks! Our special thanks go first to the players who sacrificed their time to come for training whenever we had it. Also to all our supporters, those who financially, morally and spiritually supported these great events, and most importantly to the almighty God. He opened doors for resources to flow in even though my faith was faint, He was there to rescue us and never let us down. Lastly not forgetting my friend Jeffrey Wickham who was and still is the website designer of our organization website. He is also our international promoter.

update Pearl City FC

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update of projects by Kingdom Pearl Ministries Uganda

Update of work since World Race visit

Two months ago Kingdom Pearl Ministries was privileged to host a group of youth missionaries called the World Race.
The group had been sent out as missionaries to the world to go and make disciples in the world as per the mission of Adventures In Missions, AIM goal.
A contact was created through their head office and Kingdom Pearl Muinistries and on the 28th of July the team known by Team Quiet Storm by their nomenclature philosophy arrived in Rackoko, Pader district.
Godwin, the director of KPM and KPM youth were glad to receive them in office at about 6 Pm East African time.
They stayed till the 21st of August while helping with various projects with KPM and on the 22nd they left for Kampala, then Jinja, Nakuru for the rest of their journey.
Great thanks to Elizabeth the team leader for good organization, others Peter Cheany, in charge of Logistic, with Jeff, Rebecca, Kelsey, Renee, Rashida and Vanessa, Tiffany as well as Jeremiah.

What happened next after departure?

At Kingdom Pearl life is still moving on, the team helped in a lot of ways among which establishing a discipleship Manual. They also combined it with new songs that the youth could in their free time memorize and rehearse so that their inner Man would be developed. Some of the youth in our program have been able to read the manual on their own and their lives are starting to be transformed. These are some of the ways, increased desire to read Gods word through the scriptural verses, increased prayer, both when we are on the play ground and when we are together in office. Some are increasing asking questions about God in their lives. It reminded me of some of the words of Peter Cheany one day in office, saying, “Godwin, you need feed your Spirit, through the reading books, listening various Christian teachings audio, there after can easily disciple each one of these children”.

We are thankful to God for the team for teaching us new songs to supplement the older ones. Some of the new songs are sung in the churches on Sunday and in different fellowships-and we hope we can form a choir one day.

The Sports program is running smoothly since the time the team was with us, the number of youth coming for program has remained constant. They are more enthusiastic in coming for program daily nowadays unlike the past. Jeff and Peter worked so hard with the youth capturing videos and counseling them. Also I am forgetting Elizabeth and Rebecca, Rashida worked sat and played with the girls and children.
However the girls soccer team is not active due to lack of football cleats, uniforms and therefore we call upon ever one to come to revive the girl’s soccer team.
We believe God for a coach from abroad who can inspire them to work on their talent.

Still with the soccer, this month, on the 9th October, Kingdom Pearl FC, will be participating in the district competition to celebrate Independence Day. They will be competing for a trophy with 6 other teams, there will be other prizes to take home for the winning team. The boys have been training so hard for this day amidst interruptions from bad weather. We need new cleats as the former are torn down. As we prepare our selves for the independence cup, the team is getting ready for the first division league most likely to take place in December or January early next year.

The team is excited to participate in this competition as well especially when news that Uganda Super League had broken out. These youth are working hard to lift the club to the super league and to feature on DSTV so as other clubs can get interested in them.

There is still more need for uniforms, footballs and other training kits. Remember, this is not just about raising up professional footballers but about raising leaders of the next generation who are God fearing.

We signed new players from other clubs, most of which from Pader but playing in the neighboring sub counties to beef up our squad. We have tried some already in the different friendly games and we have achieved much success.

Study nights project is going on as usual although with some difficulties. We thank God for those hard times because they are a test of our faith, and God is still keeping the program a live.
Immediately the team left, the Land Lord hiked the house rent, we were forced to quickly temporarily shift to a smaller office still maintaining the same amount we previously paid. We have to run generator daily as our new office lacked power, the costs are still more but we are hoping to move to another office with power to avoid all these disturbances after the negotiations with the Land Lord.

Our Library has grown with the number of reading books especially for the secondary students. We believe with this new development there will be tremendous improvement in the academic scores this term as it is the promotional term.

This year we have almost fifteen students attending our program going to sit their final UCE Exams and some others sitting the Primary Leaving Exams, please pray for them so that they can pass well to move on to the next level of academics.

Movie night project has not been active this is due to the high costs of gas, the economic trend in Uganda is getting bad if not worse, prices of commodities has doubled. These soaring prices of goods and commodities are caused partly due to rising costs of gas.
We have to run a generator to show a movie which requires fuel, so we decided that we have the movie nights whenever the fuel was available.

Bible Study project, we have not hard a lot of Bible study moments corporately since the team left. I have been a way some weeks on official work and other times my time off to have quiet time with God and to rest. In my absence, the work was performed by young men I am mentoring and am thankful to God that they have done incredibly well.
However, I still plead to whoever feels is called to ministry to come and work with us whether on short term basis or long term.
The Bible tells me The Harvest is much, but the harvesters are few” We need teams who can come in work with us on these projects.
Other projects include the Orphanage which are believing God for a miracle to provide the money. Also we sited a piece of land and the owner requested that a house be constructed for him as he is of age.
The total estimate of the land is about 2857.14 USDS, Broken in four parts, this means you can commit your self to pay 714 USDS one at a time, for four times to complete the whole sum.

The weather has been wacky this season, with lots of rain and this has led to the growth of much vegetation. Our playground has been bushy of late until we had to hire a mower to cut it down. Since the club is sharing the playground with the community and the school, maintaining it has been difficult. This prompted to the club to discuss with the school to privatize it to the club, and the club would take full responsibility of maintaining it.
Hence the same club will come up with ways of maintaining the field. This was discussed between Kingdom Pearl Ministries and the headmaster of the school, who later shared it with the SMC’S, School Management Communities who comprised of the Parents of Children, the School Heads, and the community leaders.

We believe with the take over our programs with the youth will be made easier, we would engage more youth in projects tailored to benefit them socially, economically and spiritually using Sports activities.
A comprehensive plan will be drawn out well on the development of this stadium including the costs.

In a nutshell I want to thank all those who are supporting us either through prayer or giving a financial contribution to our work.

God bless you mightily,

Godwin Kalinte- Director

+256-756-720-308
Kingdom pearl Ministries
www.kingdompearl.org
+256-718-584-677

update January 2011

Praise God friends, I am happy to share with you this piece of information about how God is working in me and through me to expand His domain on earth. I am hoping you are doing the same in your respective mission fields.

The Bible says in proverbs 25:25 that hearing good news from distant land is like a drink of cold water when you are dry and thirsty.

There have been times when I have been dry and thirsty during the last month or so, I needed to hear some good news to refresh my spirit man from friends. Many thanks to all those who have responded by either writing or calling in.

I had an opportunity to attend a youth convention last week and was invited to teach and preach. I discovered something special in us that we never imagined that we possessed.

I am talking about the power to turn down the situation around you.

The Bible says in Acts 2:17 the words of peter to the people explaining the power of the holy spirit, in the last days God says He will pour His Spirit on all, sons, daughters will proclaim the gospel, young men will see visions, old men, women even servants shall proclaim the message and perform miracles, 21, says whoever calls on the Lord will be saved.

God did all this during our time in the convention and using us. The sick were healed, demon possessed were delivered, the broken hearted, unforgiving were restored. The next day the power of God was still full in us and we preached in a new church in the middle of no where and a young girl school drop out bewitched by relatives and taken to witch doctors for fixing by mother got restored and saved, and the mother too.

Yesterday, we saw the power of God as we visited a young man dying of AIDS in a hut. As we approached then we saw people coming from all corners of the camp to meet us, to shake our hands. I thought to my self why all these people were coming to us, many were drunk in the early hours of the day, men and women. Then we entered the hut, we saw the young man lying, thin in the body in the dark room. A drunk man entered and almost sat on the sic . The Lord gave me a hard message to give these people; I asked where was the Love let the young man reach this extent. Either you choose life or choose death, Jesus or the devil. We led the man to Jesus and prayed for healing and God renewed his strength and could sit upright, smile and eyes wide opened.

We must love, love, love, all there is for us to do. We have been busy molding the bricks and believe that we will be able to burn some over the week to buy books, pens and sponsor a child for school. We have devoted our selves to work to raise money, but incase you want to support us please we can give you our account details or call us on

+256-772-399771 to answer your questions

We want to wish you a happy new year 2011.

Godwin Kalinte - Director

Praise God friends, am happy to once again to jot to you and give you an update of what we are doing. On the 9th of July God made a way for us to have our first ever video recorded since the program started.The video was taken when they were at the payground training, also when palying the main game, after while bathing and also testifying of what God is doing through us.
The video will be out for dispay on the blog or facebook, pray that God gives us our own digital camera to take our own coverages.
God bess you