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From Our President

Dear Sports World Friends:
God is working to change the hearts of
our children and youth, and we are so
blessed to be part of that work. Our 2021
theme verse was Isaiah 43:19: “Behold,
I am doing a new thing; now it springs
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a way in the wilderness and rivers in the
desert.” We saw God work in amazing
ways during 2021 as He accomplished
many “new things” through Sports giving us a 2021 total reach increase of
World’s ministry. 4,328% over the total number of people
reached in the previous three years com-
In 2022, the idea driving our work is bined! The feedback we receive through
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truth. Here are a few examples:
exceedingly abundantly above all that
we ask or think.” We are excited to see “I’ve struggled with depression for three years
what God will do through our ministry until this last august. Keep sharing the truth!
in the upcoming year. People need it!

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Our vision is to bring The Message of
O u i i n i r n h e s g f ”Your whole team is doing an amazing thing
Hope to students on every available here! Just wanted to say thank you.”
school campus. To reach toward this “How would you guys suggest getting closer to
goal, we have always relied on sending G o . e l i e I

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our Pro Speakers into schools. need to strengthen my faith but I am unsure
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When Covid closed the doors of many
schools and limited access to others, our We rejoice in God’s amazing goodness!
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decreased dramatically. We had to sustaining the ministry. Between fiscal
rethink our outreach methods. We years 2009-2010 and 2018-2019, the min-
created virtual assembly videos and i t y s r g l d f a c a l
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istry struggled financially. Board giving
developed a robust social media prog- exceeded program and general giving,
ram that has enabled us to reach a resulting in Board member fatigue. Dur-
larger audience than we have seen in this decade, total general donor giving
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o r 4 e r f i i t averaged just $229,964 a year. Cost for
our 43 years of ministry. While we still
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battled Covid’s limitations in 2021, we an in-person program averages $10,000;
increased our in-person reach by 368% however, contributions per program
over 2019-2020. Our social channels a e a e 2 1 4
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reached 6,990,000 unique indivuals, $7,866 per program. We needed to find

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