Jireh Sports
As of January 1, 2008 Jireh Sports merged with Shepherd Community Center. We are very excited about this opportunity to expand our Continuum of Care to the Martindale-Brightwood area, while offering the unique sports programs of Jireh to our East Washington Street neighbors.
“The Shepherd-Jireh merger is a win-win. It will expand the reach of the innovative youth programming of Jireh, ensuring that more low-income youth have first-rate opportunities to participate in a sports program that deals not just with their physical strength, but provides emotional and spiritual nurture. Meanwhile, kids formerly served by Jireh alone will enjoy new, enlarged opportunities at Shepherd. Together, these two ministries will do a better job of reaching more kids, more holistically, than they could alone.”-Dr. Amy L. Sherman
Senior Fellow,
Sagamore Institute for Policy Research
Director of the Center on Faith in Communities
As a ministry of Shepherd Community Center, Jireh Sports will continue to operate their alternative sports programs which instill a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, provide a discipling relationship with a caring adult, and access to fun, challenging sports which require discipline and hard work.
Shepherd’s Continuum of Care will provide vital resources to this poverty stricken and often violent area. With access to our food programs, free health clinic, adult employment programs, and counseling, we will begin to strengthen the near-east side not only in one neighborhood, but two.
Jireh offers the following sports programs with plans to extend these efforts as we renovate and expand the property:
- Airborne Acrobats
- Gymnastics
- Tae Kwon Do
- Wrestling
Coming in the Future:
- Rock Climbing
- Baseball
- Skate Park
- Boxing
Current Academic Programs Include:
- Tutoring
- An Academy
- Summer Camp
For more information on Jireh Sports, a ministry of Shepherd Community Center, please email:
Tim Streett
Assistant Director
tims@shepherdcommunity.org
