Misael & Dr. Yolanda Morales
For 25 years this faithful couple has served over 1300 children. Yolanda is a medical doctor and serves the community from the orphanage clinic.
Dugeree & Bettina Palm
Dugeree met Bettina when she served in Mongolia as a single missionary. Dugeree’s testimony includes how he lost is arm in an industrial accident that was the beginning of desperation causing him to turn to the Lord. Later in an atempt to reach the youth in Mongolia, he took up soccer as a means of outreach.
Rev. John Boyers
“Why should a football club have a chaplain? What would a chaplain do?” asked Watford and future England manager Graham Taylor to John Boyers. Through a series of “God ordained” circumstances John became the Chaplain for Graham Taylor and the Watford Football Club where he provided spiritual and pastoral advice and support to the players and staff during their amazing rise to the top league in England in the period 1977 onwards. He was asked to move up to Manchester in September 1992, to be Chaplain to Manchester United. John …
Dave Smith
Dave is a member of Trinity Presbyterian Church’s (Santa Ana, CA) Missions Committee and the Missions Care team with his wife Kathy. He is the Maintenance Supervisor at Phoenix House (drug rehab facility). He and his wife Kathy serve refugees in the OC and Dave has served refugees in Austria on a Surge short-term mission trip.
Rev. John Prim
John was born and grew up in San Diego, California. He fell in love with soccer in high school under the influence of his best friend who was from England. John played in high school and later in college for UCSD (72-75). He played on the first Athletes-in-Action soccer team; helped start Sports Life in its infancy and subsequently played on the first Seahorse soccer team for Missionary Athletes International. While a missionary to the country of Uruguay in the early 90s, John played two years for Club Atlético Juventud …
Hank DeGraan
Hank and his company have been instrumental in providing resources like fresh milk, bread, fruit and vegetables on a weekly basis to the orphanages in Tecate. Hank and his many friends in Mexico and in the USA have also coordinated fund raising events for construction and maintenance of the facilities.
David Welk
Co-captain of the Surge Over-50 team, Dave now helps organize the Over-50’s special projects. Dave helped pioneer soccer ministry, first as a player at Azusa Pacific University and then as a long-serving board member for Surge International. He has made regular trips to the RSJB orphanage and has traveled on multiple soccer mission trips with the Surge. David currently serves on the Board of Directors as Treasurer.
Nate and Insa Brewer
Originally from Springfield, Illinois, Nate played four years of collegiate soccer at Pt Loma before joining the Surge’s PDL team in Salem, OR. Nate traveled with the team to the Amazon River before being one of two pioneers of the Surge’s Global Player Initiative in Vienna in 2007. He played for Gerasdorf SV when he first arrived and also served as our Vienna director in 2012. Nate and his wife Insa were co-founders of the www.sbuxfellowship.org and are currently involved in directing Kyrios ministries – discipleship, counseling and church planting. …
Likius Hafeni
Likius grew up in Mariental, Namibia where he was involved in his local church and Youth for Christ. As the pioneer of soccer ministry in his country, Likius became the facilitator for sports ministry in Namibia and Church Sports Coordinator for Southern Africa with the International Sports Coalition. In 2009 Likius played for Surge International’s Cascade Surge PDL team in Salem, Oregon leading to him settling in Salem to pursue his education at Corban University. Likius graduated from Corban with a B.Sc. in Exercise Science and his Master of Divinity …
John Strauch
John Strauch has been working in the field of multimedia production since before there was ‘multimedia’. At the age of 16 he started his first photography business and hasn’t stopped developing since. With beginnings in photography, then in videography, and then graphic design, John Strauch has worked in a unique and diverse marketplace, as well as having an equally diverse skillset that has gotten him real work with, and around, some very impressive clients, customers and consumers. Now, as owner and president of Mid-Valley Media, Inc., John serves his clients …
Anstoss zur Hoffnung and SRS
It was 2013 we began traveling to Burundi and in 2014 Anstoss zur Hoffnung (Germany) joined us and gradually took over leadership of the work with our blessing. A partnership in Europe and Africa. Explore More at: https://srsfoundation.us/kickoff-hope-africa/
Josh and Amy Westermann
Josh and Amy Westermann met on the mission’s field in Nairobi, Kenya and have been married for 9 years. They have two children, Avery Faith (5) and Hudson Joshua (2). From being a top player with the Cascade Surge team to traveling with Surge International to Indonesia and Burundi, Josh brings a wealth of soccer ministry experience back to the Northwest. They will be based in Portland, OR and Josh will be directing the Oregon Outreach for Surge and also assisting with the ongoing Surge ministries world-wide. His main emphasis …