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This Christian School’s Soccer Tournament Is Winning More Than Games
Faith Facts
- A Christian academy in Nigeria has baptized over 100 young people in three years through a soccer tournament that requires Bible study participation
- Mission teams in Costa Rica and Honduras report multiple baptisms from door-knocking evangelism campaigns
- A South Sudan evangelist led a three-day seminar that brought 20 new believers to Christ, including two young women delivered from spiritual oppression
Churches of Christ around the world are sharing powerful testimonies of evangelistic success through creative outreach methods that combine practical engagement with biblical teaching. From Central American mission trips to West African soccer tournaments, believers are finding new ways to share the Gospel and see lives transformed.
COSTA RICA
SAN JOSÉ — A balloon sword and multiple sheets of paper provided a visual representation of the “full armor of God” from Ephesians 6 in Dave Domingue’s Bible lesson in this Central American capital. Domingue, director of the Georgia School of Theology in Warner Robins, Georgia, also placed a blindfold over the eyes of his volunteer, Jean Paul Gamboa Fallas, to emphasize that “we don’t always see what’s coming,” Domingue said.
Domingue led a team of students from the theology school, who worked alongside members of the Church of Christ in South San José as they did door-knocking evangelism. The team also taught Bible lessons at Camp Jennie Sue, a family camp.
Gamboa, a graduate of the Brown Trail School of Preaching in Texas, and Andrès Coto Umaña conducted the camp.
“We are grateful for the partnership of the San José Sur congregation,” Domingue said, “and for faithful brethren from multiple congregations who came together with one purpose: to encourage the church, strengthen believers and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
HONDURAS
VILLA DE SAN FRANCISCO — A dozen members of the South Florida Avenue Church of Christ in Lakeland, Florida, participated in a medical and door-knocking gospel campaign in this colorful, historic town about 40 miles northeast of Honduras’ capital, Tegucigalpa. Team members reported multiple baptisms and Bible studies during the campaign.
NIGERIA
URUK OTONG — It isn’t the World Cup, but a school associated with Churches of Christ in this West African village sponsors a local tournament that’s winning souls for Christ. Rhema Christian Academy invites teams from the surrounding villages to compete in the annual contest.
Participants must complete lesson booklets provided by World English Institute, a ministry that helps students improve their English skills using the Bible.
“The finals of the soccer contest are played during our annual Youth Bible Conference in December,” said academy president Aniefiok Akpan.
About 100 youths, including soccer players and fans, have been baptized since the school launched the tournament three years ago.
SOUTH SUDAN
MANGOK RIIT — Demons can’t stop the growth of Christianity in this East African village, said Geng Garang Deng.
Deng, an evangelist who works with World English Institute, led a three-day seminar in the village that resulted in 20 new Christians.
“During our time there, we encountered unusual challenges, particularly concerning two young girls who had been afflicted by demonic spirits that prevented them from participating in church activities,” Deng said.
Church members held prolonged prayer sessions for the girls, during which they often would become unconscious, the minister added.
“Recognizing the urgency of their situation, we prayed fervently for both girls and engaged their families, encouraging them to seek liberation from such affliction by turning to the Lord,” Deng said.
“In a remarkable turn of events, we were able to baptize both girls with their families, bringing them into the fold of the church and away from the practices that had previously caused them distress.”
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Faith Facts
- Patrick Clancy has chosen to extend forgiveness to his ex-wife Lindsay after the murder of their three young children.
- The Christian faith teaches that forgiveness is a command from God, not dependent on the offender’s request.
- Scripture reminds believers that holding onto unforgiveness can harm the soul and hinder spiritual growth.
Patrick Clancy revealed in a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that he has forgiven his former wife Lindsay Clancy for the deaths of their three young children. He made clear that she never asked for forgiveness.
Despite the unimaginable loss, Clancy expressed a willingness to release bitterness and place the matter in God’s hands.
In the aftermath of the death of Patrick Clancy’s children, many found it inconceivable that he would forgive his wife, Lindsay Clancy.
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“I have forgiven her, even though she never asked for forgiveness.”
The father’s decision reflects a deep commitment to biblical principles of mercy and grace amid profound tragedy.
Clancy’s words serve as a sobering reminder that true forgiveness flows from obedience to Christ rather than from the offender’s repentance.
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Faith Facts
- Scripture teaches that God created humans male and female, establishing a biological reality that cannot be altered by medical intervention.
- Christian parents bear the sacred responsibility to protect their children from harmful ideologies that contradict biblical truth about human identity.
- Traditional American values emphasize parental authority and state protection of vulnerable minors over ideological medical experiments.
North Dakota’s Supreme Court has upheld the state’s ban on cosmetic sex-change surgeries and puberty-blocking drugs for minors who identify as the opposite sex.
The ruling affirms the legislature’s authority to safeguard children from irreversible medical procedures that lack long-term evidence of benefit.
“The Court recognizes the state’s compelling interest in protecting minors from experimental treatments with permanent consequences,”
Legal analysts note that the decision aligns with growing national momentum to restrict such interventions on minors.
Christian leaders across the state have welcomed the ruling as a victory for parental rights and biological truth.
“We thank the Court for upholding the sanctity of childhood and the boundaries God has established,”
Parents in North Dakota now have clearer legal protection against pressure to consent to life-altering procedures for their sons and daughters.
The decision reinforces that medical ethics and child welfare take precedence over ideological demands for immediate affirmation.
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Faith Facts
- Two Christian families stood firm in their biblical convictions about parental authority and child-rearing.
- Their legal action upheld the principle that parents, not the state, bear primary responsibility for guiding their children’s moral and spiritual development.
- The settlement protects religious liberty and reinforces the traditional family structure as central to American education.
A public school district in Southern California has agreed to notify parents when lessons include LGBT-related material and allow them to opt their children out, settling a lawsuit brought by two Christian families after a book was read to their sons without their prior knowledge.
The agreement marks a significant win for families who believe that parents must have the final say in matters touching on faith and morality.
“We are grateful that our children’s school will now respect our right to guide them according to our beliefs,” one of the parents involved in the case stated.
The families had filed suit after discovering that school staff had introduced content conflicting with their Christian values without any advance notice.
Under the settlement terms, the district will implement policies requiring parental notification and opt-out options whenever LGBT-related material is part of classroom instruction.
This outcome reinforces the longstanding American principle that education should support, not undermine, the family unit.
“Parents have the God-given responsibility to raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord,” another family member commented.
The district’s decision to settle demonstrates that when families unite in defense of their faith and parental rights, schools are compelled to listen.
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