After a longer than usual break, sports ministry in Ukraine is underway. Besides the usual rugby and football (soccer) ministries, this fall we've begun helping a local church with floorball ministry with several different groups of youth. Our goal is to start a small floorball league and have a camp in the spring. Currently, our focus with these groups is to train the older ones to run floorball training sessions and lead groups, and to prepare the groups for a floorball competition in Poland in December. Several of the trainers are planning to go to Finland at the end of next month for a "train the trainers" training, if visas and funds arrive in time.
In addition to floorball, we have started a bi-weekly girls' club for the older rugby girls (ages 14-15) to talk heart-to-heart with them about things that are of interest to them, such as love, smoking, drinking, guys, life goals, dreams, etc. This ministry was started in response to the need to help these girls make wise choices in life, as many of these girls come from broken homes and are beginning to be strongly influenced by the street.
Please pray that God will guide and direct these newly started ministries, that He will give wisdom to us as we minister, that He will help us to prioritize our lives and to be lights for Him in the darkness, and that He will work out the details of visas, financial support, and working with local administrations. Pray too for God to light a fire of desire in the hearts of people in local churches to reach out to the hurt and needy in their communities.
31 October 2007
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