King’s Community Gathering

After setting up and last minute arrangements at John Mackenzie School Claris, the pastor of Riverside church, dropped his youth off. I introduced them to Bocce and we played it for 20 minutes. More youths from Riverside Church came to join us later on as they were straight from school. Some guys went to play Tennis while others were playing Table Tennis and others were playing Bocce.

When Peter (Community Church) arrived on the scene he found us taking a short break. We quickly split up into teams and played bench ball for 45 minutes. I was thinking of closing the sports session at this point because I thought the guys were tired, but  Kedibonye said we should have a game of football. We maintained the same teams from bench ball and transitioned to football. We played for about 50 minutes before calling it a day.

After the game we gathered and talked about the King’s Community and its purpose and objectives. We talked for some time before Ngenda closed in prayer. We socialized for some time before the youth were picked up by Claris. We all picked up litter and we put everything the way we found them. The guys were picked up and I was left with Peter who helped me take back the things to the office.

I was rather impressed with the attendance of the youths from riverside church. Mukani must be applauded for putting the word through to the youths. (Mukani is the King’s contact for Riverside church). Peter, my loyal friend from Community Church, is the King’s contact for Community Church.

~ Francistown Coordinator

Francistown Pastor’s Social

This Saturday marked the beginning of The King’s Community in Francistown. Leading up to February 10th invitations were sent out to various pastors around town to attend a pastor’s social at John Mackenzie School. The afternoon provided an opportunity to socialize with individuals, play some games (bocce was a hit), share the vision of The King’s Foundation and of course…eat. When it was all said and done approximately 21 pastors made an appearance – very encouraging.

In order for sports outreach programmes to be sustainable it is important to work closely with the local church. It is our aim that the King’s Community will allow youth to network with like minded individuals in the city (country), provide young leaders with new skills, strengthen existing church ministries and provide the necessary resources for groups to carry out regular sports programmes in their communities.

It will be important to build off of this encouraging first step with the local church leaders.