Dec 21, 2022 | Sports Friends Malawi
– By Danielle Byles – For years, the sight of Chinkwita would spark fear in the community of Mitundi, just outside Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. As a local gang leader, he was a notorious thief who used to terrorize and injure people with...
Dec 19, 2022 | Sports Friends Africa, Sports Friends Malawi
– By Tohru Inoue – Sometimes it seems that our best ministry efforts are hindered by hardships, by a wall of hostility. In the field, we’ve seen people turned away by communities hostile to the gospel. “The power of darkness,” as the Sports...
Sep 27, 2022 | Sports Friends Canada
In Canada, the Sports Friends ministry has developed a bit differently than in other places, and not only because it took shape during lockdown. Sports Friends Canada has voluntarily become the guinea pig: the experimental body for a western version of the...
Sep 20, 2022 | Sports Friends Canada
Sports Friends Canada launched in summer 2021, with several new sports ministers participating in a virtual Basic Training. When the week for hosting the pilot camps arrived, everyone met in person for the first time: an assembly of coaches and volunteers from...
Aug 31, 2022 | Sports Friends Canada
Today we chat with the Sports Friends Canada team! They live and work in a setting resembling home for many of our readers, so let’s lean in and learn what it’s like to see the Sports Friends model working in our own local churches. Outreach began in summer 2021, with...
