“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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Developing leaders that will impact heir own communities is part of the DNA of all Sports Outreach ministry sites. The following story from Sport Outreach Ministry in Southern Uganda shows how that goal of developing leaders led to a boy being reunited with his family.
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Every child we help with education through our LEAD program has a unique story. Each is compelling in its own way, but I think you’ll find Prossy’s story particularly so. It highlights the fact that we do not just provide children an education for education’s sake. We help with this resource in the context of the significant long-term relationships we develop with children and their families. It makes the education far more effective and transformative in the life of the child.
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Do you know what netball is? We started a netball program this month at the Sports Outreach Resource Center near Kampala.
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Coaches being available to meet the needs of the individuals in their communitites is an important part of Sports Outreach’s mission. This is done in many ways including feeding programs, sport clinics, bible teachings, tutoring services, agricultural or vocational training, and discipleship. Coach Muan in India is working hard in many was to meet the needs of the children and families in his own neighborhood.
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The dedicated members of Sports Outreach Institute are the hands and feet of Jesus in the work of transforming lives in El Salvador. They do this because their own lives have been greatly transformed in some way. Hilda, SOI El Salvador staff member shared with us her story of how she was very sick, forced to drop out of school, and angry at God, to being healed, back in school, and working with SOI sharing the Gospel and serving others!
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Sports Outreach Institute El Salvador uses Soccer as a means to share the Gospel with the children in their communities. They not only teach the children soccer skills but through other programs they also help provide the children with the supplies to perform well in the sport and other necessities so that they can thrive in daily life. SOI El Salvador Director Humberto shared with us the story of Kevin, who’s life has been greatly impacted by the soccer trainings, the Bible teachings, and the EmpowerMe sponsorship program.
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Sports Outreach Polytechnic School is going well in its third year training young single mothers in skills that will enable them to support themselves!
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Our national leaders are constantly keeping up with opportunities and options for helping the families of the children who are involved in their programs. Programs like this savings group open doors to sharing the Gospel, as families in the communities where we do ministry are helped in such practical ways.
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Jim Haley from New Albany Presbyterian Church shared his experience on his trip to Ometepec, Mexico to serve with Tim and Bard Wood, SOI Mexico Directors. This was the first Sports Outreach trip sent in 2021 after the Coronavirus pandemic and we are so thankful to hear how the Lord has continued to work in Mexico!
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