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Highlights from Sports Friends Kenya Corona Virus response of providing much needed food to our coaches and families of their players.

Kallu shares how the Sports Friends ministry has changed his life and the importance of it for him.

In Kenya, families affected by disability live in unbelievable poverty and isolation. Parents may be forced to hide their additional needs child to avoid being stigmatized by their community.

Sports Friends Kenya has been able to identify a number of families affected by disability in specific rural areas and hosted a summer camp for these families, where the children are cared for and the parents attend trauma healing sessions. This video follows one of the children, nineteen-year-old Jane, who before camp had not left her family home.

Coach Georges shares about his ministry to the youth in the Zimmerman community, a poor suburb on the outskirts of Nairobi.

Testimony from coach Dickens, one of our Sports Friends trained coaches. He is impacting the lives of young people in the Mathare slum of Nairobi.

In East Africa, young people with physical disabilities have incredible challenges to overcome and are frequently abandoned or given away. Communities often label them as outcasts, believing that they are how they are because God doesn’t love them.

In Kenya, Sports Friends has begun a special kind of camp directed at young people just like these. Not only are youth able to experience the joy and love of Christ, but so are their parents and guardians who join them for the camp and partake in a program designed especially for them.

It’s often in the hardest and darkest places of our world that we see the gospel flourishing. When civil war broke out in South Sudan, many were forced to flee their homes to the refugee camp of Kakuma in neighboring Kenya. Soccer balls are helping to break down barriers and bring the gospel message of hope to the people in refugee camps.

Special needs families find themselves surrounded by the lies of the world and pressures of their culture. They are ostracized by their communities, abandoned and left to live in guilt, shame and hopelessness.

Healing takes place for these families!
Sports Friends has brought Trauma Healing to these families and have rejoiced as Christ transforms their lives and communities by shining the truth to them.

Micah and Tiffany share some of their thoughts about our time in Kenya as we come to the end of our first term.

In June, Sports Friends Kenya hosted two camps for Children with Disabilities. In this video you will get to meet some of the campers and and see some of the highlights from the first camp.

In June, Sports Friends Kenya will be hosting 2 camps for Children with Disabilities. Coach Joseph takes you to the homes of some of the children to meet them.
There will be 20 children and their parents at each camp. During the camp, the kids get to have an experience like never before, playing games, doing crafts and being loved on by our coaches and short term mission team members.
While the kids are having a blast, we take the parents through several days of reflection, healing, and understanding about God’s love for their child.
Pray that the children will have an amazing time, that they will be brought close to Jesus and that the parents would experience the closeness of Christ and learn how to love their children more.

In October of 2017 South Sudanese refugees learned how to use the platform of sports to minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the youth and children who live in the camps.
Today, the men and women we trained have 19 teams with over 500 youth participating. These youth who have no home and no country are finding hope because these coaches invited them to join a soccer team.
This video is a fellowship of the coaches at one of the partnering churches.