Source: Mission Network News, August 10, 2016<\/p>\n
And in the midst of this athletic competition that gathers people from around the globe is a unique evangelism opportunity that only comes once every other year\u2014one that Athletes in Action<\/a> is fully engaged in.<\/p>\n Tim Pitcher is at the Rio Olympics right now with Athletes in Action. The Athletes in Action team has around 100 diverse and multilingual staff members engaging athletes and families and being a spiritual encouragement.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re here to be able to minister to the athletes from their country or their language group and really try through some initiative evangelism to be able to meet with them, resource them, so if they go back home, they\u2019re going to have copies of God\u2019s Word that they can get through security and customs that a normal missionary might not,\u201d shares Pitcher.<\/p>\n \u201c[When] Rio finishes and they all start going home, the gospel seeds will be spread on all the various lives as they\u2019re going home to their final destinations. It\u2019s a very strategic opportunity to equip and spread the gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb You may also be interested in a Brigada Today article which suggests the Olympics are a great time to help others catch a global vision<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, August 10, 2016 And in the midst of this athletic competition that gathers people from around the globe is a unique evangelism opportunity that only comes once every other year\u2014one that Athletes in Action is fully engaged in. Tim Pitcher is at the Rio Olympics right now with Athletes in Action. … Continue reading BRAZIL: Olympics Offer Rare Ministry Opportunity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6588,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}