Centennials Chaplaincy
Monday nights · Twenty years running
Junior hockey brings young men to Merritt from all over. Most are sixteen to twenty, living away from home for the first time, billeted with families they had never met in September. It is a good life and a hard one.
Every Monday night the team comes to the church. Some of it is worship and encouragement. A lot of it is floor hockey, dodgeball and food. All of it is about these guys knowing there are people here who are for them, whatever the season is doing.
20+
Years Dave McCauley has served as team chaplain
Every
Monday night through the season, in the Fireside Room
1 team
A long way from home, and a church in their corner
Dave McCauley
Twenty years of Monday nights is not a program. It is a habit of showing up.
Dave has been chaplain to the Centennials for more than two decades, through winning seasons and hard ones. He runs the Monday team-building nights, coordinates the volunteers who help, and has emceed year-end award nights. His wife Carol organizes, and along with other volunteers, supply the snack, which the guys will tell you is not a small part of it.
Monday nights
The room fills up
Every player is given a Bible
The volunteers who make it happen
Go Cents
The Centennials play out of the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena. Schedule, roster and tickets are on the club’s own site.
Before the drop
Warm-up at the arena
Start of the season
Want to help?
Monday nights run on volunteers. Setting up, cooking, baking, playing floor hockey badly, or just being another adult in the room who knows the players’ names. Billet families are always needed too, and that goes through the club.
Get in touchOr call the office at 250 378-9502 and ask about the Centennials ministry.