2024 Participants
ALABAMA:
Decatur – Lifepoint
ARKANSAS:
Fayetteville – New Life
DELAWARE:
Middletown – All For One
FLORIDA:
Pensacola – Pursue Life (2)
INDIANA:
Fishers – Crosspoint Church
Indianapolis - Westlake Community (2)
Mooresville - Uncommon Ministries
North Salem – Christian
Plainfield – Plainfield Christian
KENTUCKY:
Mt. Sterling – Fellowship Christian
Mt. Sterling – United Churches
Salt Lick – Lakeview Community
Winchester – First Church of God
NEW YORK:
Sayville – Gospel Community Valor (2)
NORTH CAROLINA:
Hickory - Church of God
Manteo – Mt. Olive Methodist
Morganton - Church of God
OHIO:
Dayton - Salem Church
Fairfield – One Church
London – Sons of Thunder
Maineville – Fellowship Baptist
Middletown – Towne Church
Orrville – Orrville Christian
PENNSYLVANIA:
Levittown – Church of God
Littlestown – St. James UCC
Monroeville – Assembly of God
Punxsutawney – Church of God
Spring Grove – Spring Grove United
York – St. Mary’s
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Aiken – Millbrook Baptist
TENNESSEE:
Bluff City – Christian Lighthouse
VIRGINA:
Barboursville – Knights Chapel Brethren
Boones Mill – Fishers of Men (2)
Buena Vista – Lexington COG
Buena Vista - PHC
Chesapeake – One City Church
Chesterfield – Hope Point Church
Chilhowie – Chilhowie Baptist
Covington – Rich Patch Union Church
Culpeper – Dunamis
Culpeper – Mountain View Community
Elliston - Moore’s Chapel (2)
Fairfax – Saint Leo the Great
Fairlawn – Radford Community
Fredericksburg – Riverside Church of God
Goshen – Bell’s Valley Worship Center
Lynchburg – Jericho Baptist
Lynchburg – Living Water Ministry
Lynchburg - Missions Ministry (3)
Mechanicsville – Compass Christian (2)
Montvale – Faith Life Baptist
New Castle – New Castle Christian
Roanoke – Heights Community Church
Roanoke – Perfecting Unity (2)
Roanoke – Valley Church
Roanoke – Wake the World
Roseland – Jonesboro Baptist
Rocky Mount – Henry Fork Brethren
Salem – Greater Prayer Temple
Weyers Cave – Life Christian Fellowship
WEST VIRGINIA:
Hedgesville – Hope Community Church (2)
Martinsburg – Life House Church

Mission
Raising Funds For Mission In Paraguay

Being a church of God event we took an offering during the "ball players" service. What should we do with the funds received of $176.00? Twila Briscoe's college roommate from Anderson (college) University and her husband were starting a new Christian school on the mission fields of Paraguay, we felt like the funds would be a good use there. The Alfa-Omega Christian school has become a local consideration for the funds that we have received each year since.

In 1984 the players from the First Church in Hickory North Carolina challenged the other teams to raise the support for scholarships for the students who needed help to pay the $125.00 tuition for the mission school. Martin and Tabitha and their family have been back for Labor Day Weekend five times in the past few years. Their oldest son Norberto has graduated from Anderson University and the School of Theology and some of the gifts of the softball tourney have helped him reach his goal and he has now returned to Paraguay to pastor and start the first Christian radio station in Paraguay with his wife Julie.

In 1987 the Briscoe's spent three weeks in Paraguay sharing and meeting the folks of the churches of this country. While there they shared in worship services and the schools graduation and helped to build playground equipment for the school. During the 1998 Tournament worship service to celebrate our twentieth year of playing we raised $20,000 for the school and the national work of Paraguay. The softball teams and their churches have raised now close to $150,000 that have been relayed through the world service office in Anderson to the Kurrle family in Paraguay.

For more information on Paraguay and how you can be involved, contact the tournament coordinator Chad Briscoe. Click on the commitee link for information on how to contact him.



"Serving And Sharing Christ Through Softball While Raising Funds For Missions In Paraguay"
Interstate Softball Tournament - Since 1978