Strong Love

Strong Love

The apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians that “love always protects” (1 Corinthians 13:7). The Sports Friends model thrives because more than 12,000 volunteer coaches embody this feature of God’s kind of love to the young people they work with. The teams are not like...
It Always Starts Small

It Always Starts Small

Twenty years ago, right around the time God was turning the century, He was turning Brian Davidson’s and Tripp Johnston’s lives upside down. The upset would cause a ripple effect intended to span continents and generations, and impact the lives of over a million...
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...
Meet the Team: Asrat

Meet the Team: Asrat

What is your role with Sports Friends? Sport Friends Ethiopia Director. What is your favorite sport?  Football (soccer). What is your favorite Bible verse? Romans 15:7: “Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to...
Jesus Washed My Feet

Jesus Washed My Feet

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” (Jeremiah 1:5) Sara was knit together by God, and delivered to the world in the city of Jimma, Ethiopia. Her mother, captive to an unhealthy lifestyle when Sara was born, knew she could not raise a baby. As is a...