In 2012, I (Luke) wrote a blog called “When Winning is Losing.” The post was about a time when a few of the boys of Lyzee United Football Club lost their cool in a tournament and got into a fight. It resulted in quite a scene where many other teams saw the boys fail...
By Daniel Chang, SF Malawi Just two weeks into my time in Malawi, I found myself hurtling down a small road in a minibus to a town called Liwonde. I had just begun to find my bearings in Blantyre, and now I was headed to a new place with a bunch of Malawian Sports...
By Daniel Chang, SF Malawi In December of 2015, I traveled with my family and a good friend to St Louis, Missouri for Urbana, a five-day student missions conference. I was getting ready to start my final semester of college, and I had no plans for after graduation. In...
Mohammed was born in a remote village in eastern Malawi. For decades, his family has been full of individuals who have been born, lived their entire lives and then died as non-Christians. A normal person in his community adamantly resists the Gospel of Jesus Christ. ...
by Fostance Mtolo, SF Malawi In many places in Malawi, sports are viewed by church leaders as evil. These leaders teach that sports should have no part in Christian life. Many would never even dream of using sports as a ministry tool. But we thank God that...
Prior to our return to Malawi, our daughter Lyzee was having a hard time. She kept asking the question: “Why do we have to go? I love it here in the USA. I love Malawi, but I love it here too.” Since we’ve returned, she’s had a tough time adjusting back to life and...
On this month’s edition of Meet the Team, we’d like to introduce you to Luke, our SF Malawi Director! Name: LukeRole with SF: SF Malawi DirectorFavorite Sport/Team: Soccer/Chelsea FCFavorite Bible Verse: “May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face...
Coach Mike Mtuwa is a 21-year-old from the city of Blantyre, specifically from a small township called Soche. He is a secondary school student and is looking forward to college. Mike became a Christ follower after hearing the testimony of a preacher who was sharing...
By Fostance Mtolo Since 2012, Sports Friends has trained more than 150 women from local churches all across Malawi. While Malawian boys love soccer, netball is absolutely loved by girls in every village and town. Jenny saw an opportunity to use the sport to...
Do you remember the days when you were young? Care-free all the time, long summer nights outside, playing sports, hanging out and laughing with friends. Most likely, all of these things were part of your life growing up. In magazines, on TV commercials, and all over...
“When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind.” Luke 14:12-13...
From May 9-16, I was in Kenya for the Sports Friends Training of Trainers with sports ministry leaders from all over Kenya and Malawi. It was an incredible time of fellowship, fun, learning, and growing in Christ. The Lord met us and encouraged each person at the...
By Fostance Mtolo To serve God is a calling and commitment, and at all of our Sports Friends trainings we emphasize that each person must count the cost of making disciples of Christ through sport. In December 2013, we had a training in Chikwawa, Malawi, with 36 newly...
In June of 2012 a young man named Mawusa Jackson took a nearly capsized carved-out tree to get to the other side of the Shire River. He was determined to cross the treacherous crocodile and hippo-infested waters for one purpose – he had been elected by his small...
In December of 2013, Sports Friends Malawi leaders travelled 120 kilometers south to a district of Malawi called Chikwawa. There we trained 34 leaders from the surrounding local churches who had shown much interest in sports ministry. It was a blessed time where the...
Meet Juddo. In 1999, Juddo was born into a Malawian family riddled with sickness. Before his fourth birthday, both of Juddo’s parents had passed away from AIDS, leaving their young child to grow up with his grandmother, aunt, and cousins in the slum of Chilomoni,...
Curious onlookers at a training in Malawi. Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal...
From August 5-9, 22 newly-elected sports ministry leaders gathered for Malawi’s fourth Basic Training. The week was sweet, but full to the brim. By the third day we were all extremely exhausted. Each person came into the meeting room looking like they hadn’t slept in...
Jesus said, "I'm telling you, once and for all, that unless you return to square one and start over like children, you're not even going to get a look at the kingdom, let alone get in. Whoever becomes simple and elemental again, like this child, will rank high in...
This month we’d like to introduce you to Fostace, the co-founder and training director of SF Malawi! Name: Pastor Fostance Mtolo Role with SF: SF Malawi Co-Founder/Training Director Favorite Sport/Team: Football / Manchester United Favorite Bible Verse: Pslam...
By Luke Voight, SF Malawi Late last year, our Sports Friends Malawi leadership team traveled to the central region of Malawi for a time of vision sharing with many churches. In one of our meetings we met Pastor C., an influential leader in the town of Sani. Across...
"For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rules or authorities - all things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." Colossians...
By Luke Voight, SF Malawi From the very beginning of our recent Basic Training, we knew that all 42 of the participants whom God had given us were exceptional. These were certainly the people we had prayed so fervently for! The purpose of Sports Friends’ Basic...
By Luke Voight, SF Malawi Meet Gift. Gift is in the center, standing. He recently turned 13 and is a member of one of the Sports Friends teams in the city of Blantyre, Malawi. Over the past two years, his coaches have poured their lives into coaching and discipling...