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Piura, Peru, Jun 26, 2012 \/ 06:04 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- It's not every day that children in Piura, Peru, learn to play American football from the coach of a National Football League team.<\/p>\n

\tJim Harbaugh, the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, told CNA that impromptu lessons with the kids during a recent eight-day trip to the town brought him joy.<\/p>\n

\tHarbaugh was one of several U.S. volunteers who traveled in June to Piura \u2013 a small town nearly 600 miles north of Lima \u2013 to help the Most Blessed Sacrament Parish with its daily ministries to the poor.<\/p>\n

\tThe parish's outreach includes a women\u2019s shelter, an orphanage, a drug rehabilitation center, a hospice facility and, most recently, tuition-free Catholic school for kindergarten through eleventh graders.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt\u2019s incredible the amount of work they do and they joy that they do it with,\u201d Harbaugh said, noting that more than 60 percent of Piura\u2019s population live in poverty and over 20 percent in extreme poverty.<\/p>\n

\tThe coach said he first learned about the mission trip through friends at St. Raymond's, his parish in Menlo Park, Calif.<\/p>\n

\tNow, four years and three trips later, Harbaugh said he has seen Most Blessed Sacrament become a \u201cvery vibrant and growing parish.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI\u2019ve always been struck by the attendance and the joy they have for Mass,\u201d Harbaugh said, adding that the pews are filled with faithful at daily evening Masses. \u201cYou can only describe that as the fruit of the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHarbaugh also credits the growth of the parish and community to the support of volunteers and the leadership of Father Joe Uhen, a native of Milwaulkee who has been pastor of the parish since 1993.<\/p>\n

\tHe estimates that the school, which Father Uhen opened in 2011, now has an attendance of more than 600 students.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cEvery desk was full,\u201d he said. \u201cThree years ago when we came down here, the school was just an idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe said volunteers this summer helped build twenty homes and packaged and delivered locally produced rice and beans to supplement meals for 1,400 families this month.<\/p>\n

\tPiuran farmers started producing rice and beans after Father Uhen invested in their crops and farming techniques, Harbaugh said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tFather Uhen also spearheaded a family sponsorship program between the United States and Peru. Through the program, titled Santisimo Sacramento, an American family \u201cadopts\u201d a Peruvian family, supplying scholarships, food and basic housing items including beds and stoves.<\/p>\n

\tHarbaugh, who sponsors a family through Santisimo Sacramento, said he plans to continue the service trips because they give him \u201cthe feeling of going down the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe doors that God will open for you by the people you meet or by the circumstances you\u2019re in (allow) your character to be shaped and your spirit to grow,\u201d he said. \u201cThose kinds of doors are opened for (me) here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tFor more information about Most Blessed Sacrament Parish or the Santisimo Sacramento program, visit: santisimo.org.<\/p>\n

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