Oge didn’t know the impact that joining the Boy with the Ball team would have on her life, but
From seven-year-old to Country Director, Monica Enriquez is an amazing young Changemaker from Costa Rica.
Young people are consistently the world's most underleveraged asset. We need to change that.
While we can't capture every single story on camera, we have many amazing photos that tell the story of our year. Take a look through our year in photos.
The Boy With a Ball Gwinnett team has seen massive growth this year.
Will a student's faith survive on its own- away from their parents pressure or the faith-community which guided them throughout their formative years?
Your generosity is essential to reaching the world’s greatest unreached people group and to solving the world’s biggest issues.
Follow along our Global Team member, Anna Currie, as she recalls her 6-week trip to Lebanon to explore the opportunity of launching a new Boy with a Ball team.
Season two of the Growing Leaders Podcast launched this fall after a successful and surprising first season!
We are filled with indomitable hope for how everyday people will emerge to do extraordinary things in this crisis.
Not by our might, our power, or even brave deeds. But by His spirit.
We believe hope is the essential tool, a critical piece, for our young people and their communities to make it, to grow, to reach their dreams.
More happens in a year than we can capture in photos.
We launched into this year expectant for big things to happen.
in us in the fight for hope in the lives of young people each day.
When we all give what we have, a large, diverse, exciting community of support comes together for real, exceptional impact.
The Lord has a plan to restore everything, everyone, and every situation. He has not grown tired, nor has He slinked back.
The third of our Love Your City stories, this one from Africa...
We celebrate Christmas, the arrival of Jesus into our broken, hurting world. We celebrate that He came to save us. We celebrate that He still comes and saves us.
We are so excited for the opportunity to share with you the story of our first twenty years! It began as a vision to have a team like a league of superheroes who would go out and fight for young people in their city...
Have you ever been in an entirely dark place when light shines through?
In our community, the partnership with First Class Eye Care has been life-changing.
May 27-29, 2021 was our sixth annual Love Your City Conference.
We all have something to give, and, thankfully, we all don't give the same things. It takes an entire community of different gifts, skills, ideas, and perspectives to change a community for the better. No matter what you have, you have a place in Love Your City. Trying to figure out where you fit in? Here are 5 ways to give that aren't $$$...
February 14th is a big day. It's Valentine's Day across the world, and Friendship Day in Latin America. February 14th is also our birthday, and we are turning 20! We're excited to celebrate our birthday on the same day that celebrates love and friendship, because Boy With a Ball's story is one of sacrificial love and deep, impactful friendships.
In a year unlike any other, we need stories of hope, of victories, of life. We need stories unlike any others.
Our three teams across the United States have given their lives to love their cities. From Atlanta to Boston to San Antonio, our purpose is to fight for young people. It's what we were made to do.
Watch the story of Love Your City in Africa and see the impact of our teams in Kenya and Nigeria.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there is no school in Kenya...Watch the story of Changemakers and see the powerful impact one team can have on a city.
When we love our cities together, we win.
Read our "No Lost Generation" White Paper. A document authored by our BWAB Global team detailing the secondary effects of Covid-19 Crisis on young people and what we have seen as effective solutions to the costs of this pandemic.
In the midst of ever changing social mores, Sergio understood that one thing remained constant: the impact of the BWAB San Antonio Team remains vital.
As the global health community and the world come together to face the COVID-19 pandemic, I wanted to reach out and inform you of how Boy With a Ball is responding in this challenging time. Each decision we make is being guided by our commitment to putting the well-being of youth, their families, and their communities at the center of our work.
It was my first semester at the University of North Georgia, and I was looking for a place to volunteer in the university’s volunteer fair. When I got to Boy With a Ball (BWAB)’s table, I met these two wonderful women that were asking so many questions about me, and that showed so much love for what they did.
In late 2009, the families of nine students made contact with Boy With a Ball’s Regional Director Josue Garcia looking for a way to keep their high-achieving young people in school. Difficult weather had left these families without the crops they need to survive and, as a result, trying to feed each person in the house had become their central challenge.
We met Evan toward the beginning of our time in Sarah Court. He has always been fun and full of energy. We’d always drop in and say hi to Evan and his family, and he eventually began coming to tutoring.
Years ago, Boy With a Ball’s first team in San Antonio, Texas met a young woman in foster care named Evelin. Evelin was a beautiful girl with a fiery personality and impeccable sense of humor.
The mission hasn’t changed…the missionary movement has. Love your city trips powerfully impact the world while setting your church up to transform your own community
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Boy With a Ball is seeking out a handful of passionate, gifted and skilled individuals who deeply desire to change the world by reaching and developing young people.
The first summer camp we did was for the Covenant Life Church children as well as children in the community. The week was full of fun, games, teams activities, and chapel time. The love, fun, and peace created a wonderful atmosphere that caused kids to want to come back.
Sometimes I think that impact is only in the big things: moments of revival, providing water sources to those who don’t have them, rebuilding shanties for families without a roof over their heads. Those things are beautiful. They are necessary.
The heat was unbearable. There were nineteen of us crowded under a tent for shade; Amari was sitting on top of me with Kimberly and Giselle sitting on either side. It added to the heat.
An abundantly exciting time at Boy With a Ball, we, the Atlanta Team, are coming into our second month of the Velocity program for Berkmar High School. Velocity is a fun, relational mentoring program that pairs high school students with middle school students.
Bridges free us from the burden of gaps. They help us cross barriers that would otherwise hinder our ability to progress.
It was 2013 when Boy With a Ball Global found a new home in metro Atlanta, a city unique in its identity. Atlanta, known as the city in the forest, home to the world’s largest airport, a major film industry, a place for artists, for athletes, for families, for many, became home to us, too.
There were once eight people in the Boston neighborhood of Historic Dorchester when it was founded in 1630. This small group of Puritans were key figures in the founding of the nation.
Honoring the life of Josh Woodruff, key member of BWAB community.
On Atlanta’s West side, a young woman gripped by a world of pleasure, fast money, and exotic dancing stands at the door to the room in which she sleeps and works. She’s come back from ending her second pregnancy.
Boy with a ball teams again with Michigan dental ministry to provide clinic in Managua.
The powerful story of Mila, Rosie, Samara and the Precario.
How an architect, a lawyer and a little boy are transforming Nicaragua.
In the first few days of 2007, a young woman named Jocelyn, in her early twenties, came running out of the El Triangulo squatters settlement where she lived in San Jose, Costa Rica holding a crumpled list of school supplies in her hand...
