Arriving as the Stranger

Arriving as the Stranger

It is a common experience for refugee families to leave everything and everyone they know because the danger of staying home is greater than the danger of fleeing into an uncertain future. They are forced to walk forward in faith that there is something better for...
Showing Up, Part II

Showing Up, Part II

You’ve told us how things got started in the sports ministry work among refugee populations in the US, and it’s clear to see that God is moving powerfully! We love that perspective, how He is redefining the boundaries of peoples’ time and space so that they might seek...
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...
Welcoming The Stranger

Welcoming The Stranger

I had the privilege of living and raising my kids in their early days of childhood in Malawi, Africa. My husband and I started the Sports Friends ministry through the local church and lived there for 6 years. The local churches are still running the ministry today and...