One Little Boy

One Little Boy

Forty teenaged boys arrived with their coaches at Lake Langano in summer of 2006. This week was the pilot summer sports camp for Sports Friends, the first and only camp like it in all of Ethiopia. The boys came from homes struggling with the poverty common to their...
Showing Up, Part I

Showing Up, Part I

He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.  -Deuteronomy 10:19 In 2017, Sports Friends...
Hope and Harvest

Hope and Harvest

Years ago in rural northern Thailand, a couple made a commitment that changed the trajectory of an entire village’s future. This couple had encountered the God who created those mountains they saw in the distance, and they dedicated their lives to make Him known to...
Distributing Hope and Future

Distributing Hope and Future

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the face of ministry around the world, along with many other facets of life. In the low-income Kariobangi community of Nairobi, Sports Friends coaches have been engaged in food distribution projects while their ability to gather...
Pursued By Love

Pursued By Love

In central Lima, there is a community built up along the sides of a hill known as Cerro el Pino, the Hill of Pines. Home to around 20,000 people, El Pino is a densely populated area originally developed in the 1980s and 90s by people who fled from terror inflicted on...