TIH Ministries · Current International Project

The 1GOL Sports Park
Montevideo, Uruguay

A family park built around soccer and athletics — designed to draw a whole community in and create the space for the gospel to be shared. This is the current international focus of TIH Ministries.

What It Is

The 1GOL sports park is a "family park" in Montevideo, Uruguay that brings sports, community life, and faith together on a single property. Soccer fields and a multi-sport court sit alongside a community center, small-business kiosks, a partner church, and a discipleship training school — so that recreation becomes the open door to relationship and the gospel.

It follows the same pattern as the rest of the TIH ministry around the world: meet a real, tangible community need — here, a place for families to play and gather — and let the lasting work be the relationships and faith that grow there. A builder and his wife relocated to Uruguay to serve as the on-the-ground contact, and the project is being built out in phases. The work is active and ongoing.

The Vision

Renderings of the Park

Concept renderings of the 1GOL park and its first phase of construction.

1GOL sports park master rendering — Montevideo, Uruguay
Master plan rendering — the full family-park vision.
1GOL sports park rendering — fields and facilities
The park grounds, fields, and community buildings.
1GOL sports park — first phase of construction
Phase one — the first stage of the build.
1GOL sports park — aerial view of the site
An aerial view of the site.
1GOL sports park — the field on the ground in Montevideo, Uruguay
On the ground in Montevideo.

Master Plan

What the Park Includes

The 1GOL park is designed as one place where sport, community, and faith share the same grounds.

Sport & Recreation

  • Soccer fields and a multi-sport court
  • Children's playgrounds
  • Walking trails
  • Bocce courts
  • Field house with restrooms, water fountains, and lighting

Community & Family

  • A large community center
  • Family Life Center — welcome desk, café, bakery, and commercial kitchen
  • Party room, nursing room, and youth game loft
  • Micro-business kiosks and a small-business training program
  • 24-hour security on site

Faith & Discipleship

  • Partner church (Iglesia Sinai)
  • Mission house and retreat space
  • Event chapel for weddings, quinceañeras, and celebrations
  • NET discipleship training school
  • Bible school classes

The Partnership

Community and Gospel, Together.

The park is led by 1GOL, a faith-based organization that uses sports and community development to bring people together and share the gospel — pairing recreation with discipleship training and small-business growth. TIH Ministries partners in and supports the work, continuing the same calling that has taken Steve, Renee, and their teams to South Africa, Swaziland, Kenya, and Tanzania since 2002.

You can learn more about 1GOL and the park directly at 1gol.org.

Get Involved

Support the Work in Uruguay.

Every gift helps build out the next phase of the park and supports the families and ministry on the ground. One hundred percent goes to the work.

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