Category Archives: Snapshot

Over the summer, one of our teams served alongside a local school with various activities. The students learned and experienced all kinds of sports. Each day a story time was held to share different values and encourage the young people to apply them to their lives. This was just one of the stations in theContinue reading “Summer School Malta 2019”

An American Football coaches tour travelled from the states to Germany to serve as part of our development project within the GFL.  These coaches were top level coaches in collegiate American football, and they came from several universities across the US.  The trip focused on GFL teams and youth teams and took place across southernContinue reading “Football Coaches Trip 2019”

For the fourth summer in a row an SRS team went to Curtici, Romania as they continued to come alongside a local church and help provide two sports camps. One took place in the morning for children between six and eleven and the other one for teenagers between 12 and 18 in the evening. AContinue reading “SRS back in Romania”

An SRS team served alongside a softball club in Erd to run a softball camp for five hours on each of the two days. A very experienced female player and coach from the US helped the girls to equip and improve their game on and off the pitch. Besides coaching defensive plays and batting, ourContinue reading “Softball – An American sport in Hungary”

All people. All places. All sports. 360 people from 38 countries gathered for 3 days to think about the gaps as we seek to make disciples in sport and play in Europe. The ECSU gathering 2019 in Altenkirchen, Germany reminded us that our God is unstoppable. We learned more about sports ministry and the sportsContinue reading “ECSU Gathering”

This two-day camp was arranged for the first time in this small Hungarian town in Southern Romania. We are thankful that God sent us between 5 and 12 kids of all age-groups to teach them in basketball, volleyball and floor-ball. He blessed them with open hearts and minds which led to great talks about loyaltyContinue reading “Our first time in Dorobanti”

The SRS women’s soccer team went on a trip to Northern Ireland to serve the area with a soccer camp and to play against a U-17 representative team. The camp had 160 children participating and the match was enjoyed by all. During the camp, the children aged 9-14 had training sessions, tournaments, and a “justContinue reading “SRS Women Soccer Team in Northern Ireland”

An international team of sport mentors (chaplains) served at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Hamburg, Germany. This tournament is the biggest Paralympic event after the Paralympics itself. The team contained eight people from: Great Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands and Japan. The chaplains spent most of their time in direct contact to the athletes.

In September, we visited a rowing school in Uruguay and got the assurance for a location where a new rowing school will established. At this new location in Montevideo, there is an opportunity to build a bigger rowing school and therefore reach more people. Besides the rowing school, we visited many former pro soccer playersContinue reading “Trip to Uruguay”

30 Snowboarders met for a camp at the Kitzsteinhorn in Austria. Despite minus 20°C, fog and lots of snow, they were blessed by good weather when they needed it for the camp’s snowboard contest. Having bad weather most of the time made them value sunshine and rainbows and seeing God in all His glory. AllContinue reading “Snowboard Camp in Austria”