May 1, 2024
With a stroke of genius, Aniefiok used the popularity of football (soccer) to draw young people to Christ. Last year, he and his staff organized a football tournament on the RCA campus and invited preteens in the area to participate. Boys and girls from RCA and thirteen surrounding villages formed four teams that competed for the trophy.
The first of eight matches was played on November 10, 2023. The eighth and final match was played on December 1, the first day of a three-day WEI Youth Conference. That night, 300 players, parents, and fans attended the conference. On the second night, an overflow crowd of 700 attended—a record for any event in Uruk Otong. During and after the conference, forty people were baptized into Christ.
Teams for 2024 are currently being formed, and all players in the tournament are enrolling in WEI. As many as 1,000 people are expected to attend this year’s WEI Youth Conference in December.
