Two Glasgow youths organised a 12-hour football match to fund a "once in a lifetime" missionary trip to Rwanda.

Luke Anderson and Adam Herbert from Sandyhills Parish Church convinced around 60 people of all ages to participate in the five-a-side tournament earlier this month at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell.

The teams, representing different congregations and various groups, played from 7am to 7pm.

The event helped Luke, 17, and Adam, 18, raise around £1,800 for their upcoming two-week trip to the Bisesero region of Rwanda with 13 other volunteers from their church next summer.

Their efforts were recognised in the Scottish Parliament, as Clare Adamson, SNP MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, lodged a motion applauding them.

Rev Norman Afrin, minister of Sandyhills Parish Church, praised their "remarkable" efforts.

He said the tournament was a "huge success" and that the boys are part of a "large group of incredible young people at the church who are an inspiration to the congregation as a whole."

Luke, a sports business management student at the University of Stirling, said: "Adam and I are going on a missionary trip of a lifetime to Rwanda next summer with the church and we were kicking around ideas about how to raise money to pay for it.

"We are both massive football fans so we decided holding a 12-hour football game would be a good idea.

"We had a parents' game, walking football, a homeless team and guys playing under the banner of professional football clubs.

"It was a great experience and I ended up winning."

The volunteers, aged between 16 and 70, will embark on projects in Rwanda with Comfort International, a Scottish charity that helps rebuild lives devastated by poverty, genocide, and conflict.

They will work with street kids, mother and baby groups, and widows' groups, and support people working in pineapple fields.

Luke added: "I am really looking forward to it and I am going with an open heart and open mind to see what unfolds."

Rev Afrin, who took part in the football tournament with his two sons, said: "The young folk going to Rwanda are really excited and they do not expect a handout to fund the trip and are taking the initiative to raise money themselves, which is great because it suggests they have bought into the vision of what we are doing."