Sep 27, 2022 | Sports Friends Canada
In Canada, the Sports Friends ministry has developed a bit differently than in other places, and not only because it took shape during lockdown. Sports Friends Canada has voluntarily become the guinea pig: the experimental body for a western version of the...
Sep 20, 2022 | Sports Friends Canada
Sports Friends Canada launched in summer 2021, with several new sports ministers participating in a virtual Basic Training. When the week for hosting the pilot camps arrived, everyone met in person for the first time: an assembly of coaches and volunteers from...
Aug 31, 2022 | Sports Friends Canada
Today we chat with the Sports Friends Canada team! They live and work in a setting resembling home for many of our readers, so let’s lean in and learn what it’s like to see the Sports Friends model working in our own local churches. Outreach began in summer 2021, with...
Aug 15, 2022 | Sports Friends Canada
A few years ago, Charles and his family were disappointed to have to return to their home in Canada after having served with Sports Friends in South America. Charles loved connecting with youth and young adults by inviting them to the football (soccer) field. He loved...
May 19, 2022 | Sports Friends Africa, Sports Friends Ethiopia
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...
