Mar 21, 2023 | Sports Friends Africa, Sports Friends Ethiopia
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...
Oct 31, 2022 | Sports Friends International
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...
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...
Jun 10, 2020 | Meet the Team, Sports Friends Ethiopia
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...
May 27, 2020 | Sports Friends Africa, Sports Friends Ethiopia
“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...