Snapshot: Friendship only needs a place

What do you need to play with a friend? Not much really.

What do you need to play with a friend? Not much really.

Passion Center soccer league finals. We use sports as a vehicle to preach the gospel to youth in the surrounding communities.
One dynamic development has been the impact of the Community Health Network. We’re training a solid group of village volunteers, some HIV+ themselves. In most cases, they’re the only ones visiting and caring for the infirmed and ill. They provide the only emergency transportation, via bicycle ambulances we’ve provided. And with supplies from The Passion Center, they minister to those suffering as well as work with village leaders to improve the overall hygiene and sanitation in the villages.
Sadly, the country of Malawi is in a growing economic crisis. Read more…

When you can’t buy a soccer ball, does that mean you can’t play soccer? No way! The children make their own soccer balls by melting plastic grocery bags.
In Malawi, it is tradition that during Christmas, for families to gather for a nice meal. At the end of each year we bring everyone connected to The Passion Center together to celebrate as a family and to thank God for all He did in that year. This year the December 21 celebration was a sweet communion!

Passion Center staff serving the children a huge dish of rice and chicken for their Christmas celebration.
“You hear, O Lord, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.”Psalm 10:17–18