Our Name
We are “Refuge” Sports – not refugee sports. 1 “e” not 2. A mistake people often make because we serve immigrants who were refugees.
A refuge is a safe place. A life-saving place, a place to escape from danger, wars, and death, a place offering relief, shelter, healing, and peace. Things refugees are desperately seeking.
Our Logo
Our logo is built on a soccer ball because soccer (aka football in other countries) is the international sport enjoyed and played by all immigrants. Soccer is the sport Refuge Sports founders played and love. Our Sports Director is a retired professional soccer player from South Asia and was the national team coach for his country for 25 years. Our Executive Director played and coached collegiate soccer. Sports and recreation programs for students and young adults provide safe environments, and encourage physical health, discipline, and good life choices.
The house with an open door in the middle of the soccer ball represents a welcome place of safety. You can be the neighbor and friend who invites them in!
Education programs offer Americans many open door opportunities to volunteer and get to know their new immigrant neighbors. After school programs, summer academic camps, and adult ESL programs for ethnic communities, help open many doors for new immigrants. For immigrants who are Christians, we hold discipleship camps with Bible study.
At the heart of our logo, is the open door. It represents:
1) The door to America that is open to refugees to find a safe place and hope for a future.
Refuge Sports advocates for refugees.
2) The door to opportunities for education which volunteers can help open.
3) The door for those who seek to know God.
We are “Refuge” Sports because a refuge is a safe place.
The founders of Refuge Sports are followers of Christ. The open door represents the refuge in Christ that we hold out for all who would enter to find hope and a future. To all who seek and knock, Jesus Christ said the door will be open.
Matthew 7:7
