Living Gods Love, Sharing Gods Love
We lead Athletes in Action Western Europe (the sports ministry of Agape Europe (Campus Crusade for Christ Western Europe). Ruben full time since 1985 and Lidia since 1997.
One World to Reach, One Language of Sport, One Message of Victory
AIA was founded in 1966 by David Hannah and now has over 450 staff around the world and presence in over 85 countries.
Ruben has been involved with AIA since its early beginnings in Spain (1985). Athletes in Action Western Europe dreams and aims to develop sport influencers into Christ-centred leaders through the platform of sport in order to help build spiritual movements everywhere.
In March 1997, Ruben was asked to give leadership to the AIA Spain National Ministry. He led a team of 6 workers full time, a dozen associate staff, mostly business & professionals from the sports world and 50 key volunteer leaders around the country. Rubens responsibilities included serving, coaching and leading the AIA Spain leadership team, teaming to give overall direction to the Agape with many other different ministries such as Student Venture, Family Life, Campus, Jesus film), direct pro ministry with basketball, and co-leading the AIA Europe ministry development as part of its Leadership Team.
On September 2006 Ruben & Lidia moved to Barcelona to work as national directors for Agape Spain leading a hundred full time staff and over 500 associates and volunteers in 15 ministries reaching out and serving the felt needs of families, children, sports people, musicians and artists, students, business people, politicians, based in 9 cities around the country.
In April 2008 they passed the baton to Eduardo and Isabel Souto, who joined AIA and Agape as disciples and had directed the ministry of Agape in Portugal for 10 years.
Since October 2008, Lidia and Ruben are Directing AIA for 7 countries at Western Europe, pioneering and accelerating ministry to and through sport influencers in 10 more from the area, and mentoring the leadership of AIA in Spain.
The family
Ruben (April 28, 1970) and Lidia (December 26, 1976) got married July 20th 1996 They where blessed with a boy named Samuel on December 31st 2005, a princess called Lucia on June 28th, 2010 and are waiting for a forth boy now in September.
Ruben has studies on sports education, theology and is a degreed basketball National Coach. Lidia made a decision for Christ being a little girl as well. She graduated in 2003 with a degree on Computer Hardware Engineering. Lidia played basketball on the 1st National Division. She is a hard worker with a silent servant attitude & a pure soul. She supports AIA with discipleship, coaching, hands on sport tours, camps, etc. She supports ours and other ministries with data base programming.
Ruben & Lidia live in Malaga and have been members of Parque Victoria evangelical church since 1994 where they have served in various capacities over the years. One of them helping this pioneer church develop sports ministry.
Highlights from our careers
• Both Lidia and I have played and coached basketball.
• I was working for a while for the largest Insurance company in the country, owning a successful office in Seville.
• Serving as a volunteer or official chaplain at several Olympics (Barcelona, Sidney, Athens, London).
• Leading chaplaincy at some major sport events in Spain,
• Leading one of the largest Basketball Camps in Spain (Frigiliana), with guest stars like Pau & Marc Gasol, Navarro, Chris Mullin, Sergio Rodriguez... and many other NBA & ACB first class players.
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