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...
Aug 11, 2020 | Sports Friends Asia, Sports Friends Thailand/SE Asia
Open Doors, an organization that advocates for persecuted Christians around the world, reports about these nations we love in Southeast Asia: Converts to Christianity face the most severe forms of Christian persecution. Abandoning Buddhism or tribal animist beliefs is...
Jan 9, 2019 | Sports Friends Africa, Sports Friends Malawi
17-year-old Suzeni is in some deep waters: persecution from her own father. Suzeni’s father believes in African traditional religion. His daughter follows Jesus, and she knows that she is a daughter of the most high God. But her earthly father is angry about this...
Mar 21, 2016 | Sports Friends Asia
By Jill Ireland, SF South Asia One of the parts of my job that I love as I seek to support our Sports Friends leaders in South Asia is the time we spend reading the Bible together over Skype. We have just started a new series reading 1 Thessalonians. Last week we were...
Apr 1, 2015 | Sports Friends Africa, Sports Friends Nigeria
By Ishaya Inuwa, SF Nigeria “… and the darkness could not comprehend it.” John 1:5 The history of northern Nigeria today is characterized by violence resulting from insurgencies. Life is full of uncertainties within this region, and so people are...
