Happy is a smart, talented young 13-year-old girl who participates in the chess and feeding programs in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a smart, grounded, well balanced young girl who comes from a humble background.
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As many of you know, our still developing ministry site in southern India is meant to be a place for needy and orphaned children. It’s been months in the making with preparations underway to ready the property to accept children, provide housing, give them an education, and a place to call home. It hasn’t always been easy. There have been countless obstacles along the way, but Barnabas has been faithful to follow the Lord’s call to reopen this once closed school, and create a space to share the Gospel and be the hands and feet of Christ.
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I believe through this trip my faith in the power of God has immensely increased and I am so thankful for the growing experience this was!
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My name is Kevin Anderson Martínez, I am 18 years old, I want to tell my testimony of how God, through Sports Outreach El Salvador, transformed my life and restored my hope.
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We appreciate SOI for their unwavering support that has enabled us to walk alongside these players. We look forward to greater days as we expand our territory to reach out for more souls. Matthew 28:19-20 is our great commission.
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At Sports Outreach we believe sports are an all terrain vehicle that knows no bounds. It is international in scope, intercultural in appeal, and there are virtually no cultural or social hang-ups. It breaks the barriers to be able to build relationships with kids to disciple them into future leaders.
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Each of our Sports Outreach coaches, both domestically and internationally, have their own story and passions. Their stories and passions along with the use of sports ministry give them the ability to disciple and impact lives that may be living a similar story to theirs. Our newest Coach, Aubrey, is doing just that. She shared with us how becoming a coach with Sports Outreach is an answer to prayer, that now allows her to influence and speak truth to women who are in a position she was once in. Coach Aubrey is bringing hope to her community by using the story God has written for her to help others.
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Deploying trips are an essential part of Sports Outreach. They get people from the U.S out of their comfort zone, into another culture, and serving alongside the staff overseas. It is a common belief that missions trips only impact those overseas, but really, the impact from trips happens most on the trip takers themselves. Read below from Elizabeth who shared with us how the trip impacted her much more than she imagined it would.
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Coach Dino has been continually and faithfully been building a baseball ministry in his own community in Croatia. In this encouraging story about his baseball team, he shares that even generational hate that stems from a war 30 years ago, cannot stop the Gospel being shared through sports.
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“I can say with all I am sure that being part of Sport Outreach was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. Thanks to God and SOI for changing my life!”
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A single soccer ball was what started the creation of Sports Outreach over 30 years ago. When our founder, Russ Car, was visiting Uganda he threw a soccer ball in the middle of a field and began to play with the team he had brought. As the game progressed, more and more children from the community began to join in the game. It was then that he realized that sports could be used as a tool to gather people together and share the truth of the Gospel with them. That became the foundational mission of Sports Outreach and it continues to be carried out today.
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This past April of 2021 we were able to hold our first Basketball Club in partnership with Hill City Community Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. The club was 4 weeks of basketball and learning about the love of Jesus.
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