YEAR IN REVIEW

2013 - 2014

“A SEASON OF TRAINING FOR A LIFETIME OF SERVICE”

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your interest and support of the ministry of MAI. Your prayers, volunteer service, and financial support empowered 37 sports ministers to train 570 coaches in sports ministry, and serve over 10,000+ youth soccer players and coaches all around the globe. We are pleased to report the mission experienced tremendous growth this year thanks to your faithful and generous support. Here's your update. Spread the Word!

MAI’s ministry – operating in metropolitan areas (Charlotte, Chicago and Los Angeles) and extending around the world – focuses on creating and nurturing “team” environments where young people experience how the sport of soccer is used to build a relational bridge with others so that they can see and hear the transforming message of Jesus’ Gospel. This year, over 2,700 youths saw and heard that Gospel at our soccer camps (here and overseas) and 175 accepted Christ as their savior, led in prayer by their camp coaches. For many of these same coaches, it was their first experience leading another person to Christ. Another 138 teens and young adults were able to apply their training internationally as they participated in our international outreach tours in Brazil, Czech Republic, Japan and Mexico.

Here in the USA, we are cultivating more teams by growing our “Urban Eagles” ministry which daily touches the lives of over 300 youth (ages 5 – 18) living in four at-risk neighborhoods in Charlotte and West Chicago. There are now nearly a dozen members of our mission’s staff coaching 11 boys’ and 2 girls’ teams, living 24/7 in the same neighborhoods as the youth that they are coaching, thereby increasing the depth of the “family” relationships they are developing in the team setting. This May, MAI completed its first one-year residential coaching program training four interns on how to start and lead a soccer sports ministry to urban youth. Two of our internship graduates are now serving as full-time residential “coaches” practicing the “presence of Jesus” in Charlotte; and another graduate is now serving as a sports minister in Brazil. The second internship “class” is already underway.

Internationally, MAI has trained more than 300 church leaders and coaches in the last two years using its team-based sports ministry curricula and hands-on training methods. This investment in training sports ministry coaches has generated over 200 teams which are being used for discipleship and loving outreach to the community. The training materials have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese so that they can be broadly implemented throughout South America.Thanks to friends like you, as we move ahead into 2015 and the years beyond, we are fulfilling MAI’s vision of generating teams that cultivate influential coaches and players who inspire others to flourish for Christ wherever they are planted. With much gratitude,

Patrick StewartPresident/C.E.O. LE

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LIVESINSPIRED

Charlotte Eagles (USL)Charlotte Lady Eagles (W-League)

Charlotte Urban EaglesChicago Eagles Summer Academy

Chicago Urban EaglesSouthern California Seahorses (PDL)

18 TEAMS433 PLAYERS

Kenya

UkraineJapan*

231 TEAMS4100 PLAYERS

Charlotte Youth (Brazil 2013 & 2014)

Chicago Academy (Brazil 2013 & 2014)

Southern Cal. Seahorses (Japan 2013 & 2014)

Southern Cal. Seahorses (Mexico 2013 & 2014)

Southern Cal. Seahorses (Czech Republic)

15 TOURS*

270 PLAYERS SENT

UkraineCzech Republic

Germany

Japan

16 CAMPS30 COACHES465 CAMPERS

Youth Recreational & Elite Camps

Urban Eagles CampsASD Spectrum Camp

62 CAMPS204 COACHES

4840 CAMPERS

CAMPS CONDUCTED

78

CAMPERSSERVED5305

Coach Training Conferences:Brazil

Kenya

ThailandPeru*

8 CONFERENCES336 COACHES TRAINED

SPORTS MINISTRYTOURS15

COACHINGCONFERENCES

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MINISTRYTEAMS249

PLAYERSCULTIVATED4533

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* Two countries visited are counted but not listed due to security concerns.** ”Lives Inspired” counts players, coaches and campers directly touched by MAI’s ministry, not included

are the hundreds of parents, fans, opposing teams and church congregations who also benefitted.

SPORTS MINISTRYCOACHES TRAINED

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The faces ofMISSIONARY ATHLETES INTERNATIONAL

MAI TEAMS (AGES 18-30)MAI’s strategy for transforming the lives of an ever-growing number of young people requires the formation of excellent soccer teams. These teams provide the role models for youth to emulate and the “seed beds” from which MAI can cultivate the growing number of transformational sports ministry coaches.

Through their “season” of team-based sports ministry training, MAI’s team players have life-changing opportunities to discern their vocations while impacting lives through soccer both on and off the field. Players are trained in skills development, spiritual formation, camp coaching, cross-cultural sports ministry, highly competitive league play, and team coaching experiences that better equip them to love and serve others.

These coaches not only coach MAI’s teams and at MAI’s camps, but many go on (sometimes after a professional soccer career) to become transformational coaches for club, scholastic, collegiate and professional soccer teams, impacting players all over the world. Some become MAI missionaries, but whatever God calls them to be and do, all remain “sports ministers” for the rest of their lives.

YOUTH CAMPS (AGES 4-15)MAI’s influence often begins early in a young person’s life when they first arrive at one of MAI’s micro-mini, basic, elite, neighborhood academy, Urban Eagles or special needs soccer camps.

MAI has been operating camps since 1984 with a dual purpose of influencing youth while training camp coaches (ages 16-30) how to model their Christian faith in a soccer sports ministry environment. In the last 30 years, over 55,500 kids have participated in MAI camps in America and overseas. Approximately 5,500 kids attending MAI camps have made first-time decisions for Christ. This is part of MAI’s strategy of “providing opportunities for participants [of MAI teams] to live out what they have learned by loving and serving others through the sport of soccer.” In the process of loving and serving campers, hundreds of MAI’s team players have become transformational coaches who can positively influence the lives of youth through their example and testimony. This is one way that an MAI “season of training” becomes “a lifetime of service.”

“Even youths grow tired and

weary and young men stumble

and fall; but those who hope in

the LORD will renew their

strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, walk and not be faint.”

- Isaiah 40:30-31

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URBAN EAGLESThe Urban Eagles is a relational ministry that uses soccer as a means to build long-term mentoring relationships with inner city youths who often lack such essential relationships. Founded in 2010, MAI’s Urban Eagles program currently serves 310 young people living in three at-risk high-poverty, high crime neighborhoods in Charlotte, NC and the Timberlake neighborhood in West Chicago, IL. The primary objective is to help the young people in these neighborhoods escape the trap of generational poverty, poor education and dysfunctional families.

Each of our neighborhood leaders makes a four-year commitment to live in one of these at-risk neighborhoods and serve as both soccer coaches and role models. These “life coaches” help youth in their neighborhood with character development, conflict reconciliation skills, school work, ESL classes, family needs and emergency assistance. Once established, MAI's neighborhood leader(s), interns and volunteers develop soccer teams through which these community relationships, services and youth development can grow.

For the sake of unity, Urban Eagles participants train together at a common facility and play on an “Urban Eagles” team. This approach allows the Urban Eagles' staff and volunteer coaches to most effectively and efficiently, teach MAI's well-respected sports ministry curriculum, facilitate cross cultural exposure, and instill the sense that the Urban Eagles are one family working together for the common good.

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“And he has given us

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who love God must also

love one another.”

- 1 John 4:21

INTERNATIONAL OUTREACHSince 1985, MAI has organized and sent 206 youth or adult mission teams to 36 countries. In the past two years, MAI sent 15 such missions teams to 6 countries involving a total of 270 players.

MAI also sent sports ministry coaches to 6 countries to train pastors and coaches in soccer skills, coaching, and sports ministry best practices. As a result, more than 300 coaches have been trained -- often in the context of their church’s ministry to the community. These local coaches, in turn, have trained other coaches and teams resulting in thousands of soccer players using the skills and sports ministry best practices MAI has planted in their countries.

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MAI’S VISION FOR THE FUTURE

Three simple facts drive MAI’s vision for the future of its service to God and neighbor:

• The vast majority of people make the life-transforming decision to follow Christ before age 18. • A coach is second only to a family member in terms of positive influence on the moral and educational development of a child.

• Soccer, as the most popular sport in the world among youth, provides ample opportunities for a sports ministry trained coach to inspire his or her players with the support, skills and virtues needed to live a better life that is flourishing in and for Christ. We want to recruit, train and equip soccer coaches all over the world to use their position of influence to inspire people, especially youth from the youngest ages, to live for Christ. Following the 2014 season, in accordance with our strategic vision, MAI stepped down a level from the USL Pro soccer league so that we can better invest our resources in starting and maintaining an ever growing number of youth teams, including youth teams for at-risk youth in our underserved urban areas, coached by trained men and women who want their records to be more about flourishing lives than winning records. Our goal is to seek out and prepare hundreds of coaches and players to use a soccer field to sow seeds that produce a harvest “a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” In sum, we envision every soccer pitch as a “resurrection park” where life in God’s Kingdom can rise up bringing new lives to better days.

TOTAL INCOME:$3,049,468

TOTAL INCOME: $3,049,468Staff Support* $1,488,782 Tours $371,144 Teams $228,281 General $274,848 Contributed Services $99,457 Camps & Clinics $327,253 Team Revenue $179,058 Special Events $77,946 Other $2,699

TOTAL EXPENSES: $3,030,338Tours $539,958 Camps and Clinics $847,587 Teams $1,057,034 Management & General $478,684 Fundraising $107,075

TOTAL EXPENSES:$3,030,338

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS +$19,130

FINANCIALS 2013 For the fiscal year ending December, 31st*All figures in US dollars

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MAI is an accredited member in good standing of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.

* "Staff Support" is the tax-deductible charitable financial contributions that all MAI missionaries raise to fund their salaries, benefits and missions expenses.

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