Oct. 18, 2009 :: SALEM, OR -The Cascade Surge has folded as we reported last week. Should they be mourned? Why should anyone care . . . There are plenty of reasons to care . . .
APULIFE Summer 2010 :: A poster, the Cougar soccer team, a chapel service, and a trip with APUs Mexico Outreach Program were all important pieces of a puzzle that led me to 36 countries around the world.
Surge News Feb 2012 Allen Lotz, our Senior VP, just returned from from the jungles of Peru. He was part of a seven person group that traveled 10 hours by plane, 10 hours by bus, 10 hours by truck, then throw in a canoe ride! The purpose was to help provide medical care, minor construction and begin to explore the idea of using soccer for leadership training, similar to our project in Mongolia.
See Coach Irby as he traveled with their Seahorse Team to Uganda, as the civil war was ending.
June 26, 2010 :: As an incoming freshman, David Irby 75 had no idea how much impact APUthen Azusa Pacific College would have on his life. Thirty-five years later, he is founder and CEO of Surge International, a ministry that uses soccer to bridge political and social gaps around the world in order to spread the Gospel. View Full Article
Mike first joined us on in Burundi and has traveled with us to Austria and Peru. Now married to Kelly (Lotz) they are now in a rural village in Uganda. Mike will be coaching a men’s soccer team, and one of his goals is to also start a soccer academy for the youth/orphans there. He firmly believes in the importance and structure that youth sport offers, in building character and providing a positive environment outside of school. Mike has a huge heart for mentoring young men, and helping point them …
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 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.
CEO, Surge International • U.S. Soccer ‘A’ Coaching License; M.A.T. (Teaching), University of La Verne (California) A native of Southern California, Dave played soccer on the first team at Azusa Pacific University. At the age of twenty-three, he became the Cougars Head Coach, twice being named Coach of the Year, while at the same time playing with the Athletes-in-Action soccer team. A pioneer of soccer ministry he has literally crisscrossed the global as a soccer coach, player, and speaker. He was the first coach for the Sports Life team (WA) …
Senior Vice President • B.A. in Liberal Studies & M.S. in Christian Education Allen represents Surge International from Atlanta, Georgia. Allen has been a career missionary in MK education in the context of cross cultural church planting. Al played soccer at Azusa Pacific University (CA) and also with one of the first soccer ministry teams before entering the world of MK education overseas. As teacher, coach and administrator in three different countries on two continents, he brings expertise in organizational leadership, multicultural settings and member care. Using soccer as a …
“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 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.