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Athletes
in Action-Liberia
Minister George Festus Blamoh
(Campus
Crusade For Christ International)
P.O.
Box 10-520
Monrovia, Liberia
Mobile: +231-6576445/+231-6620018
Email:
georgeblamoh@yahoo.com
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Minister
George Festus Blamoh and wife, Nudeh Tupee Blamoh
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WORLD CUP REPORT 2010
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OVERVIEW
What is Athletes
in Action?
Background:
Athletes in Action-Liberia, is a sports Ministry
of Campus Crusade for Christ International.
While some people are never challenge to do
their best, a sports man is. There is however, a
far greater commitment and far higher goal to
which we Athletes in Action want to challenge
you, the goal of been totally committed to the
greatest person who ever lived (Jesus Christ our
Lord). It is He who has given our lives lasting
hope and meaning that go far deeper than the
enjoyment sports can provide.
Goal:
1
Is to minister to and through Sports
people: Outreach/Evangelism; One on One, Small
Group and Mass, Discipleship/Bible Studies and
Mentoring.
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To enhance international good will
through sports
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To help Athletes maximize their
potential.
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To introduce sports people to a personal
faith in Jesus Christ while encouraging them to
grow in their faith through the fellowship of a
local church.
Strategy:
We
reach out, build and Disciple Elite athletes
from the National Soccer Teams (Under-17, 20, 23
& the Senior National Team), Premier Clubs,
First & Second Division Basketball Club Teams
and the National Cycling and Track teams where
they can become part of our Disciplship Chain;
Volunteers, Associate Staff and Full Staff, in
order to make disciples and extend God’s Kingdom
through the platform of Spots.
Vision:
Our
vision is to train, Disciple and transformed
athletes from sports coaching to Whole Life
Coaching (Holistically).
Mission:
Our
mission is to prepare a generation of God’s
people through sports, that will transform our
nation and globe by their life that they live (I
Corinthians 9:25-27).
Objectives:
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To develop Leadership and Life Skills
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To develop Soccer Skills
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To create opportunities for them to use
their skills for the glory of God
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To teach them that the ultimate goal is
Jesus and that we can not reach eternal life
with our strength.
Partners:
We
are currently in partnership with the Liberia
Football Association/CAF Educational Director,
The Ministry of Youth & Sports, and Liberia
Christian Sports Coalition, Churches,
Orphanages, Schools, Universities, Colleges,
Sports Outreach Africa, Northwest Christian
School, Athletes in Action-Holland and REAL
Foundation(Rural Educational And Leadership
Foundation).
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A Brief Overview
of Liberia
In 1822 the American
Colonization Society established Liberia as a
place to send black people who were formerly
enslaved. Other African-Americans, who were
never enslaved, chose to immigrate to Liberia as
well. African-Americans gradually migrated to
the colony and became known as Americo-Liberians,
from whom many present day Liberians trace their
ancestry. On
July 26, 1847, the Americo-Liberian settlers
declared the independence of the Republic of
Liberia. The name Liberia denotes "liberty", but
civil war engulfed Liberia in 1989 and 1999 with
peace finally returning in 2003. Liberia has a
population of 3.5 million people and the
national language is English. 40% of the
population is Christian, 40% follow indigenous
beliefs, and 20% is Muslim.
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Fast facts:
Capital - Monrovia
(population 572,000)
Currency - Liberian
dollar
Life Expectancy –
49 years old
Literacy Rate - 58
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GDP Per Capita -
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It is
a beautiful country, but the civil war that
gripped the country from 1989-2003 destroyed
ever fabric of society. There are still 18,000
UN soldiers and personnel occupying the
country. The staples for life are very
expensive and often in short supply. The pump
stations for cars along the roads are just four
poles covered by a palm-branch roof. Gasoline
is sold from galloon jars which are poured into
the vehicles using a home-made funnel. The
daily food is plantains, rice, and fish. Most
of the country relies on gas-powered generators
for their electricity. There is a shortage of
public transportation, and people can wait for
hours just to catch the few taxis available.
Yet
these people are not bitter towards God.
Instead they are seeking to follow Him. It is
as if God has removed the veil from their eyes.
In their need and brokenness God is meet
them. I believe that God is making Liberia an
example for all of Africa and the world as He
brings hope, peace, reconciliation, and joy to a
broken nation.
Overview of Our Work:
In September 2008, we were
able to trained 23 Referees, Coaches and Sports
Administrators at the Conference room of the
Liberia Football Association. in October 2008 we
were also able to trained 75 leaders coming from
Premier Clubs, Schools, Universities, Colleges,
Community Leaders, Ministry of Youth & Sports
and the Liberia Football Association through our
Modules 1-3 Training/Coaching program at the
Temple Outreach Schools in New-Georgia,
Caldwell, where 60 Leaders were qualified for
our Training of Trainers in January 2009 which
brought Leaders from the above institutions
across the nation to be trained as Life
Coaches.
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Road 2 Africa Project November 2009
The
Vision
It is
the desire of Athletes in Action Liberia to
empower Athletes (Elites), individuals,
ministries, and churches in Liberia and around
the world to fulfil the Great Commission by
reaching their communities with the
life-changing message of Jesus Christ through
sports and to release them to train others.
We
combine sports with compassion projects to meet
the physical needs of the people. In reaching
the physical needs, doors are opened to share
Jesus and meet the spiritual needs as well.
We want
to work in two ways. One focus will be to
minister to local pastors, church leaders,
Elites & University athletes, youth, community
and government leaders, and individuals through
seminars, forums, meetings, and teachings on
reconciliation, Christian Community Development,
Church Development, Ubabalo, and Sports Ministry
and a soccer tournament. By bringing in experts
who have experience in these issues, we believe
that all of Liberia will be impacted as the
message is spread through radio, newspapers, and
media reports.
The
second focus will be on receiving sports team
from Holland, Sierra Leone and Ghana. The
Holland team will be made up of two team leaders
and eight to ten team members, and will be able
to lead sports clinics in soccer . The sports
activities will be used to encourage fellow
believers and share the gospel as relationships
are built quickly in spite of economic and
cultural barriers. Potential opportunities
include serving an orphanage of 80 children an
hours drive from Monrovia, visiting local
schools, and hosting sports clinics in
neighbourhoods in partnership with local
churches.
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Key People
Participating in 2009 Road 2 Africa Project
Dr. Dolphus Weary
Dr. Weary is the President
of Mission Mississippi, a ministry that is
striving to bring racial reconciliation
throughout the US. He is also a nationally know
speaker, author, and authority on reconciliation
and Christian Community Development. He will
come to Liberia with his wife Rosie, who is also
active in community ministry.
Bram
Koerts
Bram
works for Athletes in Action as a part of
National Team, coaching churches in the
Netherlands to develop their own sports
ministries. He is also a certified trainer for
the Institute for Natural Church Development (NCD).
NCD has become a vibrant movement in 70
countries with more than 40,000 churches
world-wide. The focus of NCD is to draw people
closer to the triune God and, as a natural side
effect, to see numerical growth within the
church as a whole.
Jonathan Detweiler
Jonathan works for Athletes
in Action Holland as the Manager of
International Partnerships. He has been
involved in sports ministry for more than 18
years and has travelled to many countries to
train local churches in the development of their
own sports ministries.
George Festus Blamoh
National
Coordinator/Projector Director-Athletes in
Action-Liberia and National Facilitator Ubabalo
Soccer to Whole Life Coaching, a strategy use in
mentoring and developing the Whole person
Holistically as they grow to become a Life
Coach and an agent of Change in society that
will help fulfil the vision of raising a new
generational Leaders in Liberia and the world.
He is a former National Soccer Team Goal Keeper
of Liberia, Trained and Certificated Life Coach
and also a Trained Leader of African Leadership
Institute for Community Transformation, Cape
Town
South Africa with Emphasis in Youth Development
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Reports of Road 2 Africa Project 2009
Thanks
so much for your prayers toward our just ended
November 13-23 , 2009 Project.
To God
be the glory for His blessings upon our nation
as He use us as instrument to help transform our
broken nation on the platform of sports.
Our plan
is to raise up a new generational leaders that
will leave legacy for the nation and the world.
The Project were very much successful. The
conference was attended by 150 participants;
Pastor, church leaders, Sports Ministries
Leaders, College & Universities Leaders,etc with
Dr. Dolphus Weary, Jonathan Detweiler, Bram
Koerts and I (George Festus Blamoh) serving as
Speakers. We were also able to serve 8
Orphanages, schools, Street Youth and JFK
Hospital with Medical Items, Clothes &
Educational Materials. We were able to meet
with students at AMEU and Lincoln College of
Professional studies.
The one
day soccer tournament brought together 7teams
including Sports Life international from Sierra
Leone, UMC-Roots Premier Club, Liberia All Stars
Team ( Comprise of National Team Players and
Premier Clubs), Jireh Fc, New-Georgia Pirates,
Ambassador in Sports Fc and AIA-Liberia Soccer
Team. During the the tournament tracts were
distributed by Churches and AIA Team as well.
The
Dinner/award was well attended with all of the
invitees being attended with the exception of
the Presidet of Liberia, Her excellency Madam
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who asked the Minister of
Youth & Sports to act on her behalf.
We want
to say thank you for every thing. May God bless
you as we build Movement everywhere for the
Lord’s Kingdom. We want to say thank you to our
AIA-Holland Partner and Dr. & Mrs Weary of the
USA for joining us imparting our nation. We say
many many blessings to you.
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Strategy for 2010 & Beyond
There are three areas of
focus in this plan:
1. Evangelism.
To bring the gospel to as many players and
officials in Liberia’s top soccer leagues.
2. Discipleship.
To help these players and officials to grow in
their faith and to live changed lives.
3. Sending. To help the player and
officials to see that God is sending them as
missionaries on the sports field.
After 2010 we trust God that these players will
continue to have ministry wherever God sends
them. To accomplish this, we believe the
following projects will help us.
Projects
As part
of our yearly Project, we will be receiving and
sending teams from our various partnering
Ministries outside of Liberia. Each team will be
made up of team leaders and team members, and
will be able to lead sports clinics in soccer
and other Sports that will be available for the
project. The sports activities will be used to
encourage fellow believers to share the gospel
as relationships are built quickly in spite of
economic and cultural barriers. Potential
opportunities will include
Evangelism:
Sports
and Life Conference (March 2010), High
Profile Soccer team to South Africa (June
6-24, 2010) for the strengthening of the
churches and spreading the gospel on the
platform of Sports during the world cup. AIA/Church
Soccer & Basketball Tournament and Sports
Clinics and Outreach (July 24-August 11,
2010),
(Sports
& Community Development Conference serving
orphanages, visiting local schools, and hosting
sports clinics in neighbourhoods in partnership
with local churches, Premier clubs,
Universities/Colleges Sports Teams.
(November
13-23, 2010
Discipleship:
Total Athletes Training Camps
There are
lot of challenges that athletes go through in
life and the sports career. This training
develop the athletes not only on the sports
field but as well as off the pitch where he/she
will still mantain the attribute and
characteristics if Christianity so that their
life can serve as mentor to those that do not
know the Lord.
Ubabalo Training
The average
age of the youth of Liberia is 16 years.
They need life-mentors.
As part of our mission to
raise up a new generational Leaders in Liberia
through the 15 Counties of our nation, we carry
on Leadership and Life Coaching/Training through
our Ubabalo Soccer to Whole Life Coaching
Strategy.Since soccer
provides the best “language” to communicate with
the Liberian youth, the training of
soccer coaches into life coaches will provide
the most efficient transformative impact in
Liberia, and beyond. Ubabalo is a
TeenGames styled strategy that aims to ride on
this fever and bring soccer coaching
opportunities to youth.
Our objective is to transform youth through
whole life coaching. Aspiring young adults will
be identified and trained to coach soccer
skills. Ubabalo uses soccer as a microcosm of
life to instil sound life values. This is the
key to “paradigm shift” soccer coaching into
whole life coaching. Every soccer skill is
related to a value which is taught as part of
the soccer training.
This program focuses on
1.
The untapped leadership potential of
youths.
2.
Changing the behaviour and attitudes of
the youth so that the effect of HIV / AIDS,
corruption, ethnic/tribal strife, family
struggles and poverty will be minimized.
We have a comprehensive curriculum that will
facilitate coaches and players to develop a
sound value system. The curriculum will capture
every aspect of one’s being. We want to present
a holistic coaching experience, both for the
coach and his players.
Local church partnerships are at the centre of
this program. We facilitate a process in which
the church:
1.
Moves outside her walls and become a
change agent in society.
2.
Partners with other churches to unite the
body of Christ in a shared pursuit.
3.
Turns its attention to the youth to
ensure the future growth of the Kingdom of God
in Liberia, and beyond.
4.
Grasps the opportunity to effectively
disciple the youth through the avenues that a
value-based soccer program creates.
As the world is being treated to a spectacular
festival of soccer in 2010, the dream is to see
the world experience a moral regeneration
through a value-based whole life coaching
program and celebrate a renaissance of
leadership with global impact long after the
completion of 2010 FIFA World Cup™.
Each partnering Institution creates a
multiplication effect by identifying 5 coaches
and 5 teams which will give us the opportunity
to train 60 Leaders into Life Coaches with 20
partnering institution from each County . They
can be existing coaches or individuals who
desire to be trained as coaches. The soccer
teams range from 11 to 25 years of age. The
coach must receive Ubabalo Module 1 training in
order to be a values-based life coach. He
continues to meet his team of 18 – 20 youths
bi-weekly for 30 weeks. After a year the players
would have gone through 60 sessions of
leadership and life skills coaching, in addition
to soccer coaching. The first phase of Ubabalo
will be for 5 years.
The Ubabalo training provides cutting edge
knowledge in life coaching, life coaching
skills, and facilitates personal and attitudinal
transformation. Further, the coach receives the
life coaching curriculum which comprises a
soccer coaching manual, and a leadership and
life skills manual. Each soccer skill is linked
with a corresponding value. The soccer skills
are the avenues to the values. The values are
used as avenues to Bible-based discipleship.
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Life Coaching Curriculum for Coaches
The life
coach is to receive 9-days of training in 3
contact sessions per year.
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Module 1: Introduction to Life Coaching (3 days)
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10 weeks on-field coaching
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Module 2: Intermediate Life Coaching (3 days)
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10 weeks on-field coaching
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Module 3: Advanced Life Coaching (3 days)
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10 weeks on-field coaching
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Year 1: Introduction of Whole-Life Coaching
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Connecting soccer skills to life skills
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Transforming soccer coach to whole life
coach
Year 2-4: Building Effective Teams,
Understanding Youth Development, Emotional
Intelligence and Personal Leadership
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Finding identity
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Identifying profile, passion, skills,
talents
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Leadership and communication skills
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Comprehension of youth issues
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Management of emotions to facilitate
right thinking
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Regulation of emotions of others to
promote impact in others
Year 5: Emerging as Change Agent
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Facilitation of church & community
development projects through sports & games
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Leadership in discipleship groups
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Life
Coaching Curriculum for Players
Our first 20 whole life coaching series comprise
of the following:
Soccer Skill Related
Value Session Name
Short Passing Connectedness
Stay Connected
Long Passing
Service Serve Each Other Into
Greatness
First Touch
Stability Self-Control
Shielding
Respect Guard The Treasure
Shooting
Responsibility It’s Mine
Heading
Courage Reach For Your Goal
Tackling
Courage Live With Courage
Dribbling
Confidence Grab The Moment
Dribbling With Moves Confidence
Timing Is Everything
Running With The Ball
Urgency Reaching Objectives
Goalkeeping
Focus Preparedness
Individual Defending Watchfulness
Protect From Infiltration
Team Defending
Loyalty Appreciating Each
Other
Cohesion
Attacking As A Team
Creativity Creating Space For
Each Other
Strategizing For Success
Shielding
Respect Watch Out!
Long Passing
Service Be sensitive To Others
Long Passing
Service Looking Outwards
Heading
Courage Grasp The Opportunity
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Ubabalo
Philosophy and Values
There are 12 key values that characterize
Ubabalo:
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Integrity – All trainers should live a
life of integrity since exemplary living is the
strongest training method.
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Bible-based – We believe that the Bible
is sufficient in teaching us to live a life of
fulfilment and significance.
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Acknowledging the science of sport and
the identity of the sports person – We never
want to exploit athletes for proclamation
purposes, but we want to serve them in a way
that acknowledges their real needs.
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Service – In our training we want to
create servant hearts so that the world-wide-web
of leaders that we develop will be of one heart
and mind.
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Experiential learning – Since
experiential learning fits into the culture of
sport and has also proven to be a very strong
educational tool, we apply this method wherever
possible.
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Partnerships – Since the beauty and the
strength of the Body of Christ is so powerful,
we are always inclusive in an effort to involve
all stakeholders.
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Humility … that leads to service
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Diversity … that leads to understanding
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Interdependence … that leads to
partnerships
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Empowerment/envisioning … that leads to
multiplication
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Creativity … that leads to innovation
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Integrity … that leads to trust
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Passion … that leads to commitment
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TRAINING IN LIBERIA,
WEST AFRICA
I
am so grateful to
God for all the
prayers that
you
render us for our
ministry and during
our just ended
Legacy 2010.
We had
100 participants
coming from six
U niversities and Colleges. We are so
grateful that the
Lord is able to used
us to help build and impact these
students that will
leave lasting
Legacy
in their generation
and the generation
to come.
Also please
keep us in your
prayers again as we
prepare for our
Sports training
conference on the
10th of August and
soccer matches and
outreach on the 8th,
15th and 22nd of
August, 2010 in
partnership with the
Logos Hope ship.
Blessings.
Together on His
Team,
Brother George
Festus Blamoh
National
Coordinator-AIA-Liberia
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Sending:
Send players to
churches to help reach the community.
Sending teams to South Africa for the world cup
2010 soccer outreach and to other countries to
share the gospel.
We believe that we can not
achieve this alone as the African Proverb says
“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want
to go far, go together. We all know the fact
that one horse can pull two tons while two
horses can pull twenty four tons (Ecclesiastes
4:9-12). We look forward to your partnership.
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Report of South
Africa World Cup
2010
Minister George Blamoh, Liberia
Our Country Liberia didn’t qualify for the World
Cup, but our AIA Sports ministry in Liberia did
send a team of soccer players to assist in
The Ultimate Goal outreaches. We all came
from Monrovia in Liberia, we arrived on 4th June
2010, initially staying with the Bitters, and on
the 5th June a welcoming braai was held at NUC.
Friday 11th June 2010 was the first of our
planned outreach events: The Big Screen, The
first World Cup match was Bafana Banana versus
Mexico. People arrived even before the Opening
Ceremony was screened.
Refreshments (provided by the ladies of North
Cliff Union Church) were available throughout
the afternoon, though spectators were hesitant
to help themselves at first, as it seemed they
didn’t understand that the food and drink was
free! Before the Big Screen Game, a DVD called
The Prize: Chasing the Dream was shown, which
included testimonies of World Cup players from
Brazil, Italy and Spain, and by that time the
Scout Hall was filling up. By the time the match
began, the hall was full of very enthusiastic
soccer fans. After the match, Bernie Bitter
shared the Gospel using the Gospel Soccer ball
and our Liberian Team were sharing tracts as
well.
Monday 14th June Soccer Tournaments, Clinics and
Exhibition Matches; The start of a two-week Fun
Soccer Festival at the Northwest Christian
School (NWCS). The first week, Monday to Friday,
was for the under 13’s, and the second for the
under 13’s, and the second for older kids. Our
Liberian team missionaries from several other
countries together with AIA countries, were now
living at the school, sleeping in classrooms,
with meals provided each day by one of the NUC
Home Cell Groups. All the helpers for the day,
led by Bastiaen Norel, the principal of North
West Christian School, got together for prayer …
as the children started arriving for
registration.
The coaching (provided by our Liberian team),
supervision and refreshments were all provided
at no cost to parents, and 65 children
registered initially, with a few more arriving
during the course of the morning. NUC’s Gary
Blackstock who is a sports coach at the school,
together with Wesley Smith, was responsible for
the organization of these events. He explained
that the kids were divided into teams for
friendly games? No winners at this stage? With
three games going on simultaneously, and teams
being rotated so that each one played against
the others. “Each day will be similar,” Gary
explained, “but eventually there will be more
‘formal’ games with kids playing against the
coaches.” After a break for cool drinks and
biscuits … we the coaches told the kids about
their faith in Jesus Christ, and explained how
they could have a saving relationship with Him.
Although football still tends to be
predominately a sport for boys, there were a
fair number of girls who came along, too!
Coaches taught the kids about, e.g., passing,
stopping the ball, heading, defending, etc. The
skills taught were different each day. The
weather turned bitterly cold during the week,
which may have deterred some children, so
numbers varied between 65 and 45. Bastiaen Norel
commented, “I was encouraged as there were quite
a number of children who don’t come to NWCS, and
they are the ones we want to reach out to.” Rati,
aged 12, said she had learned how to show God’s
love through football. “The J3.16 soccer ball
helped kids to understand about God,” she
commented, “and the coaches’ talks helped people
who don’t know about Jesus, as well as those who
are not sure if they have a relationship with
Him.”
Gary Blackstock believed the kids had responded
well to the Liberians’ coaching and listened
well to the messages. “We learned a lot; they
learned a lot. It was a lot of fun!” he
concluded. (Subjects covered in the talks
included “What do you do when things don’t turn
out the way you want them to?”, “What do you do
when you don’t get what you want?” , and “What
do you do when things are not fair?”, to which
one child commented, “Homework’s not fair!”)
From the 21st to the 25th June it was the turn
of the high school kids, the over 13’s. And from
the very first day there was occasion to praise
the Lord, when seven of them indicated they
wanted to accept Jesus as their Saviour,
after I (George Blamoh) had explained the way of
salvation. Numbers varied between 20 and 40, and
Wesley Smith commented that for the older
children there was less “clinic” and more
“tournament”, as most of them had sufficient
soccer skills and ability. “The soccer has been
good, played in a good spirit,” he said, though
there have been some little misunderstandings on
the field, but
That happens!” The dynamics are different”,
added Gary Blackstock. Young kids are more
forgiving of their team members, but the older
ones are more competitive. There’s more
aggression, so you have to deal with that.” Many
of the high school boys were not from NWCC and
thus strangers to one another, but during the
week friendships began forming. Unlike the
previous week, however, there were no girls ? It
seems they don’t consider playing football
“cool”! Gavin, 16, said his soccer had improved
during the week, when he learned about
teamwork, respect and self-discipline. He
also discovered there are not only “boring ways
to worship God; soccer can be just soccer,” he
said, “but if you include having fun and
respecting others, you can worship God through
soccer.” Indoor soccer games were played in
the Scout Hall. Thirteen of these events were
planned between 14th June and 9th July.
Although there are specific rules for indoor
soccer, the format for the games in the Scout
Hall was flexible, in order to adjust for the
number of participants and their skill levels.
Also, the hall is too small for five-a-side, and
three-aside is more realistic! Our Liberian team
began by kicking a ball (which looked like an
oversized tennis ball) around, then incorporated
others into the game as they arrived. Later on
during the weeks of the World Cup, it was hoped
to register the “regulars”, to form teams and
have tournaments for those interested. It is
here especially, explained Bernie Bitter, that
we aim to attract people in the local community
who are not members of NUC, with a view to
forming relationships, finding out what their
needs are, and attempting to meet those needs
once the World Cup is over.
If enough interest is shown, it may even be
possible to start indoor soccer leagues. The
Scout Hall has been adapted for this purpose,
with protective bars over the windows and light
fittings. Many black children don’t get
organized sports at school,” explained Bernie,
“but just play in the streets, without boots or
any kit at all. But often bigger kids will come
along and take over the ball, so the younger
kids can’t play anymore.” As with the other
Ultimate Goal events, participants had the
opportunity to hear the gospel message and were
given gospel leaflets to take away with them.
The Bram Fischerville Community Church (BFCC)
was planted by NUC in 2007, with services
initially being held in a tent. Three outreaches
were planned, the first being on Monday 21st
June, aimed at making contact with children in
the Bram Fischerville area, building
relationships, and eventually getting them from
the soccer field and into the church. The
outreaches were arranged by AIA in cooperation
with both NUC and BFCC. Besides making contact
with local youths, these would also be
opportunities for training.
“It’s important for some of the BFCC people to
see what we do,” explained Bernie Bitter, “for
purposes of follow-up, but we are also modelling
how to do an outreach so they can do something
similar later on.” In the same way, George
Blamoh (I), the Liberian team leader, modeled
how to give Gospel presentations so the rest of
my team could learn from it. And, as with the
Three-a-side soccer at the Scout Hall, the Bram
Fischerville events were designed to be
flexible, depending on the number, ages and
skills levels of those who came. Flexibility
turned out to be essential! On arrival at the
designated field, a game was already in
progress. It was suggested to them that the two
groups could combine, so that everyone could
benefit from we the coaches’ expertise, but they
were adamant on finishing their own game. The
outreach group would have to wait for about an
hour!
The new BFCC church building But the Lord
provided an alternative soccer field, still
within sight of the church, and the few people
already there were happy to join us. More kids
in the immediate area were persuaded to come
along, too, and before long there was action!
Smaller children were divided into two teams and
an informal game got underway (but those showing
above average skill could join the bigger kids).
The older children’s game was a little more
“serious”, and they were given skills training
as well. Later, over cool drinks, there was a
gospel presentation using the J3.16 soccer ball.
It was hoped that the interest level would be
enough to bring them back for the remaining two
days, and that they would bring their friends
with them. We also had the opportunity of
playing, praying and sharing the Gospel with
some drug addicts in Soweto. One of them said,
he was born in a home were violent and abuse was
the order of the day, it was how he got to be
addicted with drugs. One of them also said that
because of over commitment and poor time
management resulted him into drug abuse.
Our time in South Africa during the world, I
will say it was a great experience and learning,
especially the one week long conference at
Pretoria where AIA Missionaries from several
countries, it was indeed a great experience, the
worship, praying, playing soccer and leaning
soccer clinics, etc. What a great blessings and
experience for our team from Liberia.
WORLD CUP REPORT
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(printing style:
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(print two pages per sheet)
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George
Festus Blamoh
National
Coordinator
Athletes in Action-Liberia
(Campus Crusade For Christ International)
National Facilitator-Ubabalo
Soccer to Whole Life Coaching
P.O. Box 10-520
Monrovia, Liberia
Mobile:
+231-6576445/+231-6620018
Email:
georgeblamoh@yahoo.com
Currier Service Address:
George
Festus Blamoh
National Coordinator
Athletes in Action-Liberia
(Campus Crusade For Christ International)
90 Tubman Boulevard Congo
Town
Adject Bethel Cathedral
Monrovia, Liberia
Mobile:
+231-6576445/+231-6620018
George being
interviewed.
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Sports Life
Conference
Report-George-Liberia
Hi
Brothers and
Sisters,
Thanks so much for
your prayers for our
just ended one day
sports Life
Conference which
started and ended
March 6, 2010.
We expected 15
participant but only
11 attended which we
are very very m uch
grace to the Lord
for. We had three
facilitators, which
include Sylvester
Harris, Amos Gayflor and
I (George Festus
Blamoh). We were
able to show the
Prize
DVD and distributed
the More Than Gold
Video and some other
Christian Sports
Ministries
materials.
The participants
came from Churches,
Youth Organizations,
University of
Liberia and Club
Teams. The purpose o f
the training was to
prepare them for
ministry opportunity
for the coming World
Cup and beyond.
Thanks again for
your support.
Blessings .
Brother George F.
Blamoh
National coordinator
Athletes in
Action-Liberia
P.O. Box 10-520
90 Tubman Boulevard
Monrovia, Liberia
Mobile: +
231-6576445
georgeblamoh@yahoo.com
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Hi
Brother James,
Thanks so much for
the restructure of
the organization and
and
well organize
system. I will
appreciate what you
have done. I can see
the future of the
ministry. I have
prepare couple of
Devotionals on my
laptop and will get
them over to you. I
am also prepare a
team of Leaders for
the 2010 world cup
outreach in South
Africa. We have just
completed our Sports
and life Conference
and looking forward
to our Road 2 Africa
Project in July
24-August 11, 2010
where we will be
expecting a team
from Holland to join
us in the project.
Please pray along
with us and
coordinate, for
partners over in USA
to help partner with
our work in Liberia.
Blessings.
Brother George F.
Blamoh
Minister George
National coordinator
Athletes in
Action-Liberia
P.O. Box 10-520
90 Tubman Boulevard
Monrovia, Liberia
Mobile: +
231-6576445
georgeblamoh@yahoo.com
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