John Kato, with Faith Sports Ministry in Nigeria, is very involved in the school and community. He makes a personal effort to talk with seminary students during chapel hour, and also talks with church leaders and organizes competitions on campus and outside of school. For six years his ministry has organized and hosted five aside football tournaments in the local community. In November they had a weekend seminar in a local church. His ministry experience also includes: Completed levels I and II training with Sports Friends Africa Organized a Sports Ministry Conference for CSI in April 2005 Recruited with More Than Gold to serve during the 8th All Africa Games October 2003 John has a Diploma in Theology, a Diploma in Computer Application, and received a Certificate in Sports Ministry by correspondence with CSI, 20th October 2006. He speaks English as well as Hausa and Jaba.

 

Contact Information

Ministry: Faith Sports Ministries Address: P.O Box 95 Kwoi, Jaba LGA Kaduna Stat Email Address: faithsport@yahoo.com

 

Country Information

Nigeria is found in the western part of Africa, with an area of 923,766 sq km. The recent population of the country (provided by the country’s national population commission at the end of 2006) stated that Nigeria has a population of over 140 million people. The country has 36 states, 774 LGA with its federal capital in Abuja. Nigerians major minerals resource is petrol and has the following cash crops - cocoa, coffee, ginger, groundnuts, cottons, oil palm and others. Nigeria has 3 major ethnic groups which are Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba. Over 600 languages are spoken here. There are 3 religions, but the two major ones are Christianity and Islam, beside traditional religion.

 

Ministry Information

Faith sports Ministry is a para church sports ministry that utilizes the plat form of sports for intentional evangelism, discipleship and assimilation. Our hearts desire is to use this effective means to attract young people in our local community to give them what they want so we can tell them what they really need to hear. We are very concern at the rate at which our young ones are living wayward lives, and so by our effort we hope to improve their standard of living and be of help to the community. We meet twice a week (Sundays and Wednesdays) for Bible studies, prayers and other discussions to bring development.

 

Testimonial

On 27 - 29th Dec 2006 was the day we set aside for our annual five aside football tournament. This was the biggest ever, since we had 4 people coming to give their lives to the Lordship of Christ, we also had a professional soccer coach coming to be part and share his testimony with us. For the 3 day event we realised approximately three thousand seven hundred people. This was covered and documented. Praise God!!!