By Stephanie Ross, SF Camp Langano, Ethiopia Last month Camp Langano held its first ever sports camp for kids with disabilities. First ever. This meant we had no idea what to expect or whether or not what we had planned was actually going to work. The more you feel...
By Brian & Laura Hall, SF Ethiopia/Camp Langano The audience of 10 where I sat was blown away. Here we were at the Camp Langano meeting hall asking, how did God ever bring these two guys to this training together? The thing is, *David was a cop in Addis, and...
By Tiffany Wessler, SF Zambia ‘How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? ...
By Moses Gyokson, SF Nigeria staff. Photo by Sam Casey Coach Icy, Gambo, Seken and Wendy are using trainings they got from Sports Friends Nigeria to bring a wholistic change in lives of families in their communities. They have youth from different churches attending...
By Nicole Adams, SF Ethiopia As a recent graduate with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Desta had high hopes for his new mobile maintenance shop. Like any young entrepreneur, he had dreams that the shop would grow and be a stable source of income for years to...
By John Smith, SF Kenya Tony has always enjoyed sports and had a love for young people. He first became exposed to sports ministry as he interacted with two SIM short-term missionaries who went down to the coast of Kenya to explore the possibilities of sports...
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Luke 10:2 By Luke Voight, SF Malawi, Photos by Jenn Brady, SF ISS As we approached the field, we couldn’t help but smile at the...
By Luke Voight & Erin Kranz Women's netball ministry here in Malawi is heating up! The women's netball teams from Chilomoni (the team from our neighborhood) and Bangwe had a great time playing and hanging out together. There where lots of people watching and...
By Tripp Johnston. Photos by Jenn Brady. Thank you for your prayers for us as we spent much of the month of October in Ethiopia. What a joy it was to be a part of celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the start of Sports Friends in Ethiopia, and to also be a part of...
By Luke Voight, SF Malawi. Photos by Jenn Brady, SF ISS We recently got back from a three-week intensive International Leadership Training with leaders from Zambia, Malawi, Ghana, Senegal, USA, England, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Thailand, Peru, and Kenya. The training was...
By Lynda Steuer, SF Ethiopia Moving from the largest city in East Africa to a farming community in rural Western NY has proven to be quite an adjustment. We have experienced culture shock in the extreme: new schools, new supermarkets to navigate, and new doctors who...
By Laura Hall, SF Ethiopia/Camp Langano I was having one of those “Mommy” days, and my husband, Brian, could tell. We were about halfway through camp season here at Camp Langano, and the full schedule, Brian’s long hours as the Program Director at camp, and my time at...
By Luke Voight, SF Malawi Not too long ago, I heard the ever-so-familiar sound of a little dusty fist pounding on our front door. It was the boys. To my surprise, I only found two of them standing outside. With hopeful expectation in their eyes they said, "Kodi,...
By Tiffany Wessler, SF Zambia Sometimes it seems there are a hundred English words for every one Kikaonde word. Seriously. Take mambo for example… it can mean affair, fact, matter, or it can be used for reason, because, regarding. It’s often used for sermon,...
By Luke Voight Earlier this month I traveled to the southern villages of Malawi with some of our local partners to follow up with the sports ministry leaders we trained at the Basic Training back in June. We have been specifically praying that the Holy Spirit would...
By John Smith Recently Sports Friends Kenya partnered with a church in coastal Kenya to hold a camp at their facility. We like to partner with churches that have ongoing church-centered sports ministries running in their church already. Our goal is to help the...
By Stephanie Ross Every Monday afternoon during the summer months, 80 different kids from all around Ethiopia are welcomed to Camp Langano. For a few moments, no one in the area can escape the sound of tambourines, flutes, drums, and singing “Inquan denametachew”...
By Luke & Becca Voight Thank you for praying for the Southern Region youth camp that we recently had for the Africa Evangelical Church. It was a wonderful time and God worked in power. As always, we had some difficulties but God seemed to always be right there...
By: Nicole Adams Each week at camp we have the opportunity to love on 80 campers and share the truth of the Gospel with them. We keep the program packed with futball (soccer), teaching, fun games, swimming and crafts, but at the end of the week many campers say that...
We have a quick prayer request for you all today. Our SF Malawi team will be hosting around 800 youth for a youth Gospel/sports camp today through August 5th. Please pray that the Holy Spirit would move in incredible ways in the lives of these youth who are making...
Story: Tiffany Wessler With Zambia’s earlier win this year of the Africa Cup of Nations, football fever is in full swing. Every boy dreams of playing for “Chipolopolo.” As Sports Friends is launched in Zambia, we hope that youth will also soon be burning with fever...
Story: Luke Voight, Photography: Jenn Brady, Editing: Erin Kranz Thanks so much for your fervent prayers over the past few weeks. Prayer drove us through the many ups and downs of the first-ever Sports Friends Basic Training here in Malawi. The training began on...