sports outreach

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OUR CHALLENGE . . .
GIVE
them hope . . .

CHANGE
their lives . . .
As you read through this catalog, we
pray that the opportunities described
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in these pages will resound with you. Ministry in Northern Uganda
We hope you will prayerfully consider 2
making a gift that will allow you to
Ministry in Uganda
• Become the sponsor of an 3
international sports ministry team,
Ministry in Kenya
committed to serving others.
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• Provide transportation for a
trained sports minister enabling
Ministry in Rwanda
them to serve others in destitute 5
places.
• Provide a child with a meal for a Ministry in Mexico
day, week, month or year. 6
• Provide a scholarship that
helps secure vocational and Ministry in the U.S.
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educational training for a child.

Sports Outreach Institute, Inc. takes

sports programs of all kinds into Four Easy Ways to
needy areas of the world. We seek to
bring the hope and encouragement
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of Biblical truths to people who are
desperate. SOI works in orphanages, MAIL the enclosed order form with
schools, prisons, facilities for the
a check or credit card information
physically handicapped, and in
partnership with a wide variety of
to:
churches. Sports Outreach Institute
P.O. Box 119
We provide a program to educate Monroe, Virginia 24574
lay workers in crisis counseling for
young people victimized by war,
CALL (434) 528-2516
torture and abuse. Additionally, we
offer leadership training in sports
ministry. In our newest program, we FAX the enclosed order form with
are developing a model that can credit card information to (434)
be used world-wide to help children 528-2517
living in the streets. It includes a
feeding program, sports program,
vocational training, community ONLINE at sportsoutreachinst.org
service and spiritual guidance.
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Vocational Training
Help equip a person, a family or a community!
Sports Outreach is offering vocational training
in five high-demand job areas. Your gift to
this program will be used to empower an
individual by preparing them for meaningful
employment with lifelong skills.
Suggested Gift: $50.00

Trauma Care
Almost 100% of the 1.9 million
people in Northern Uganda
suffer from some level of
trauma. Two decades of war
and atrocities have scarred
people physically, emotionally
and psychologically. Your
gift will help Sports Outreach
Transportation
In addition to the work in the town of
continue to minister to
Gulu, Sports Outreach staff in Northern
the long-term needs of
Uganda minister in seven large
traumatized individuals
internally displaced person camps
through psychological and
as well as work with churches and
medical aid, play therapy,
Christian agencies in the Sudan and
art, drama, music and Biblical
Congo. There is a great need for a mini-
discipling. SOI also
van or small bus to help the staff more
trains and equips military,
effectively reach and serve the people
medical and other Christian
in these locations. Your gift will help fill
workers in the techniques
that need and multiply the scope and
and approaches to care of
effectiveness of the ministry.
traumatized individuals.
Suggested Gift: $100.00 Suggested Gift: $250.00

Feeding Program
Thousands upon thousands of children in this region of Uganda have no
reliable and consistent source of food. Each day begins and ends with
uncertainty. Where will the next meal come from? Would you help us meet
this tremendous need? Each day we feed as many as we are able, but
our resources are limited. Your gift can help stop the suffering that comes
from hunger.
Suggested Gift: $20.00
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Ministry in The Slums
Your gifts and prayers are needed to help
continue the ongoing work in five large
slums in Kampala. Each day members
of Sports Outreach staff go to the slums
and minister to others through a feeding
program that reaches thousands;
through vocational training; through
community service projects that involve
the entire community; through sports
ministry; through Christian discipleship;
and through educational grants and
scholarships. Your gift will help ensure
the continuation of this program that is
touching so many in the name of Christ.
Suggested Gift: $20.00
Good News
Football Club
This team of highly trained and
disciplined sports ministers
carries out the ministries of
Sports Outreach in Kampala
and assist in the work in
Northern Uganda. Each
member of the team has
also recruited and trained a
Timothy (an assistant who will
one day assume leadership
as a member of the Good
News Team in Kampala
or a new team in another
region). Your gift will support
the work of thirty-two trained
missionary leaders.
Suggested Gift: $100.00

Kampala School
for Physically
Handicapped
Founded in 1968, the Kam-
pala School for the Physically
Handicapped is a fully accred-
ited primary school catering
to the educational, physical,
psychological and vocational
needs of the disabled children
in Uganda. Most of the ninety
pupils who stay at this boarding
school suffer from cerebral pal-
sy, muscular dystrophy, spina
bifida, polio, or other disabling
conditions. Help continue the
work of this longtime friend of
Sports Outreach by supporting
them with your gift.
Suggested Gift: $50.00
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 Ministry in Kenya

HIV/Aids
Education
Kenya, and in
particular Nairobi,
has one of the highest
rates of HIV/AIDS
in the world. Sports
Outreach staff will
use your gift to help
Staff Support for Timothies educate people in
The work in Nairobi needs a Good News Team to HIV/AIDS prevention
make it more effective. A financial gift here helps as well as provide
cover the cost of recruiting and training a new care for children who
generation of sports ministers and missionaries are born with this
for service to the poor and needy of Kenya. terrible disease.
Suggested Gift: $50.00 Suggested Gift:
$20.00

Feeding Program

Funds are needed to establish
a daily feeding program in
three large slums in Nairobi. Your
generous donation can provide
food for a child or family that
otherwise would not eat.
Suggested Gift: $20.00
Slum Ministry
Over SIX MILLION people live in
the three Nairobi slums where
Sports Outreach conducts full-
time ministry. The needs in each
of these difficult places are
overwhelming. Gifts here help
feed, provide emergency care
and expose others to the truth of
the Gospel.
Suggested Gift: $20.00
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 Ministry in Rwanda

Staff Support
Sports Outreach is seeking funding
to support a full-time staff position
in Kigali, Rwanda. After years of
developing key relationships in the
church, the government and the
community, the time has come
for a full-time sports minister to
plan, implement and coordinate
programs. The field is ripe for the
harvest and your gift will help fill a
key ministry position.
Suggested Gift: $50.00
Sports Ministry
Training
Help support an annual
conference to be held in Kigali,
Rwanda to train and equip new
sports ministers. As this ministry
continues to grow and reach
into new areas of Rwanda, more
leaders will be needed. Your gift
will help carry the Gospel and
programs of Sports Outreach into
more villages and communities
in Rwanda.
Suggested Gift: $20.00

Ministry in the United States

Development of Local Sports Ministry

Sports Outreach continues to develop and implement innovative
strategies for using sports ministry in the local setting. Your gift will help us
to continue to reach and serve others through our programs in California,
Texas and Virginia.
Suggested Gift: $20.00
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 Ministry in Mexico

Ministry Camp
Would you help us build a camp along the Pacific Coast? We are working
to secure the necessary funds to construct a Christian camp that will
complement the Sports Outreach programs in Mexico. In addition to
camping programs and outreaches the camp will be used for Christian
retreats and discipleship.

Suggested Gift: $20.00

Ministry Staff Support

Luis and Milsen Monje are valuable staff members of Sports Outreach
in Ometepec. A gift here will help support them and their children
as they assist Sports Outreach Senior Staff Leader Tim Wood. Luis is
an ordained minister and is well trained in sports ministry.
Suggested Gift: $50.00

Sportsbridge
The Sportsbridge program helps
to close the gap between what
Americans have in abundance
and what developing countries
desperately need. Colleges, schools,
youth groups, civic organizations,
businesses and individuals are invited
to send surplus, used or outdated
equipment to struggling teams and
sports programs. This partnership
makes everyone a winner! Your gifts
will help cover the cost of shipping the
container of donated goods to the
targeted group.
Suggested Gift: $100.00
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