Het begint altijd klein

Op de blog van SportsFriends Internationaal staat het verhaal over hoe het ooit begon.

It always starts small

“Over two weeks in Africa, the men were continually struck by the age of the people: over 65% of the entire population were younger than 25. There were kids everywhere! With little opportunity for education or employment, these young people had nothing to do and were drifting forward with an impoverished mindset about the future. However, whenever the men rolled a soccer ball onto the ground, the kids flocked to them, eager to play and to connect.

Before they even got back to the USA, God had begun filling Brian’s and Tripp’s minds with vision. He sparked a passion in them to serve national churches in Ethiopia by equipping them to reach the youth in their neighborhoods through sports. Where there was no church, sports could be the avenue to build relationships with communities and introduce them to the love and word of God.”

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