On this month’s edition of Meet the Team, we’d like to introduce you to Brian, a SF videographer based out of Thailand! Name: Brian Yung Role with SF: Videographer Favorite Sport/Team: Basketball/Toronto Raptors Favorite Bible Verse: "He has shown you, O...
Sports Friends Thailand/SE Asia
A Pastor with a Mission
By Ashley Sullivan, SF International Preaching on Sunday mornings is just one part of being a pastor. Meet Pastor Pradit from Thailand, a man who takes the role of coach as seriously as he takes his role in the church! Pastor Pradit came to the first ever Sports...
Meet the Team: Andrew
For September's addition of Meet the Team, we'd like to tell you a little bit about Andrew, our Deputy Director for Southeast Asia! Name: Andrew Role with SF: Deputy Director of SE Asia Favorite Sport/Team: Football, my favourite team is whomever I am coaching at the...
Worth It
By Sarah Bullock, Providence Baptist Church Sarah recently returned from a short-term trip to Thailand with a team from her church, Providence Baptist. We're so thankful for church partnerships like PBC and are thrilled to share Sarah's perspective from a week at...
Pray, Give, GO!
By Bec Oakley, SF Thailand Most mission agencies have some variation on a “Pray, Give, Go” slogan somewhere on their websites or in their literature. It's a constant challenge to keep people engaged in the praying and giving, but an even greater challenge to mobilize...
Photo Friday – 4/17/14
Happy New Year from Thailand! The Thai New Year was celebrated this week between April 13-15. Highlighting Thai New Year's celebrations is Songkran, a nation-wide water festival. Traditionally a sign of respect and well-wishing, the throwing of water has become more...
Radical Grace
By Cat Edwards, SF Thailand. Photos by Chad Loftis. Our Sports Friends Thailand team recently partnered with the amazing guys at Radical Grace – SIM’s HIV and AIDS ministry in Thailand – to visit a Juvenile Correction Facility in Mae Rim. Together they used fun...
Not Just For Boys
By Bec Oakley, SF Thailand Sports Friends' core training component - the Basic Training - is designed to encourage participants to facilitate sports ministry with a range of kids using a range of sports. However, most of the participants in Thailand come to the...
Finding Faith Through Football
By Rebecca Oakley, SF Thailand There is a small town in Saraburi Province that’s name literally means Buddha’s Footprint. It is a place of much significance for Thai Buddhists and is also a dark place full of much spiritual opposition to Christianity. However, Pastor...
Coaches Campaign: Meet Phaddee
So far you've helped us raise 275 coaches of our goal of 1,000 before the end of the year! Thank you to everyone who has given already. To celebrate, check out this 1-minute video above that tells the story of one of our awesome coaches in Thailand. If you haven't...
Meet the Team: Dting
God has brought some amazing people to serve with Sports Friends from lots of different backgrounds and talents! We think they're all pretty awesome, so it would be rude of us not to introduce you to them. Stay tuned as we feature more team members in the coming...
“I thought of myself as a Holy Boy!”
By Jill Ireland, SF Asia "I thought of myself as a Holy Boy!" …this was the way my friend, Mr. K, started the story of how he came to put his trust in Jesus. Being from a very devout Buddhist family in a restricted-access country in Asia, Mr. K grew up knowing...
Profile of a Coach: Meet ToTo
By Bec Oakley, SF Thailand We often talk about the amazing outcomes Sports Friends’ camping ministry has for the kids who come, but what about the impact on the young people who volunteer as camp mentors? ToTo is a 22-year-old university student who grew up in a...
The Faith of Mothers and Grandmothers
By Bec Oakley, SF Thailand I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. 2 Timothy 1:5 For the past six years Christians in Jem Noi, a Karen mountain village...
Photo Friday – 2/15/13
Preparing for the baptism of a volunteer soccer coach, in the Karen village of Chaem Noi, Thailand. Photo by Bec Oakley
Interview With a Coach: Pastor Weechit
By Cat Edwards, SF Thailand We interviewed Ajaan Weechit, president of the Sports Ministry Network in Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand, about his experiences two years after he attended a Sports Friends’ Basic Training. Here’s what he said! “Praise the Lord for the...
Photo Friday – 12/28/12
Kids making their way home after the Chiang Mai Christmas Cup in Thailand - an event for over 200 young people and their coaches. But is it really possible to get a whole team on one motorbike...?! Photo by Cat Edwards
Changing Lives Through Sports in Thailand!
By Pranee Boonkliang, SF Thailand. Photo by Erin Kranz When a group of Thai Christians got the vision for bringing young people to Christ through sports ministry, they partnered with ‘Psalm’ – a young Sports Friends-trained coach with boundless energy and passion for...
Profile of a Coach: Meet Kruu Jed
What do an ex-professional Muay Thai fighter and a loving football coach have in common? They are both embodied by Kruu Jed – a Godly life coach from the local church. Kruu Jed, who at one time was a top contender in Thailand’s national sport, Muay Thai (boxing), has...