Ready set go big book for awt2014 only

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READY SET GO

Draft 1

PLEASE NOTE: This book was compiled for May Orlando

meetings in 2014 ONLY. It is not a final draft. It will be used for

discussion only.

Draft text only on each page as a guide of the content for the

final book. Please make notes and suggestions on back pages

and tear out and give to Keith or Roy.

Not final layout or graphics

Do not distribute.


Contents

Intro to Ready Set Go ......................................................................................................................................... 3

Ready............................................................................................................................................................. 11

Understanding the vision ................................................................................................................................. 11

Knowing the heart ............................................................................................................................................ 14

Practical steps to be READY.............................................................................................................................. 19

Process of Looking and Listening ..................................................................................................................... 20

Building a Team ................................................................................................................................................ 22

Partnering ......................................................................................................................................................... 25

Managing Conflict ............................................................................................................................................ 28

ECEC Every Country Every City Conferences .................................................................................................... 30

Sports Event 1.2.3 ............................................................................................................................................ 32

International Sports Leadership Training - ISLT ............................................................................................... 34

Set ................................................................................................................................................................. 38

Exploring the heart ........................................................................................................................................... 38

A guide to making disciples .............................................................................................................................. 49

Discovery Bible Study ....................................................................................................................................... 51

Skills .................................................................................................................................................................. 53

RSG Training package Ideas .............................................................................................................................. 54

Training in the Go Strategies and InSport Training Track ................................................................................. 57

Go .................................................................................................................................................................. 58

1. Governing Bodies of Sport ........................................................................................................................... 65

2. High Profile Athletes..................................................................................................................................... 66

3. Sports Centers .............................................................................................................................................. 67

4. Coaches and Teachers .................................................................................................................................. 68

5. Sports Camps ................................................................................................................................................ 69

6. Clubs and Teams........................................................................................................................................... 70

7. Academies .................................................................................................................................................... 72

8. All Abilities Sports ......................................................................................................................................... 73

9. Proclamation – Sending and Receiving Teams ............................................................................................ 75

10. Chaplaincy .................................................................................................................................................. 76

11. Action Sports .............................................................................................................................................. 77

12. Church Services .......................................................................................................................................... 79

13. Public Sports Screens ................................................................................................................................. 81

14. Resource Distribution ................................................................................................................................. 83

15. Sports Camps (MSE) .................................................................................................................................. 84

16. Sports Festivals ........................................................................................................................................... 85

17. Community Cup* ........................................................................................................................................ 86

18. KidsGames .................................................................................................................................................. 88

19. FamilyGames .............................................................................................................................................. 89

20. TeenGames ................................................................................................................................................. 90

21. EdgeGames ................................................................................................................................................. 91

22. Coaching for Life ......................................................................................................................................... 92

23. Ubabalo Whole Life Coaching .................................................................................................................... 93

24. Ubabalo Kids ............................................................................................................................................... 94

25. Youth Sports Leadership Development ...................................................................................................... 95

26. Max7 Kids ................................................................................................................................................... 96

Going Further ................................................................................................................................................... 97

Notes for Orlando Discussions ......................................................................................................................... 98


Intro to Ready Set Go

A practical handbook on how churches and other groups are

going into their world and making disciples in and through

sport.

‘Ready Set Go’ is a description of a worldwide sports movement

of churches, leaders, sports people and young people all

committed to serving their communities in and through sport.

Read through this handbook, with ideas written and developed

across every corner of the globe, and see how you can benefit in

your community.

READY is about bringing people together

under one vision and nine ‘heart’ values that

are founded on the Bible. It happens through

servant leadership, by partnering and

through teams.

SET is about training to grow servant leaders

with Biblical understanding, godly character

and practical skills to be able to Go and make

disciples.

GO is about going into every community and

making disciples. The movement has many

ways that this can be done in and through

the world of sport. 25 great ways are listed

in this handbook.


Ready

Vision

Growing disciples in all nations for Christ

in and through the world of sport.

Mission

Partnering to serve Christ's Kingdom

in and through the world of sport.

The Heart of the Movement

What we do

Proclaim the Gospel

Make Disciples

Obey the Bible

Where we serve

In and through the Local Church

In and through Sport

In every country and every city

How we do it

We live as servants

We work in teams

We build partnerships *

* Note for Orlando discussion: recently the partnering

discussion has encouraged the use of the active verb

‘partnering’ instead of ‘partnership’ which can be about

the structure or noun rather than the activity. Should this

be “We enable partnering” or something similar?

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Intro to Ready

“Run in such a way to get the prize.” was what Paul wrote to

the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 9:24).

Any athlete coming to the starting blocks of a big race has

trained and planned the race in detail with their coach. They

have imagined every step of the race. Coming to the starting

line, alongside other runners, is one step in a long process of

seeking to win a race. Paul used sporting pictures as powerful

images to describe the believer’s life and witness in the world.

In the RSG movement, getting READY involves understanding

the Biblical task we have been given to make disciples in all

nations.

To be READY to run the race will require:

1 Understanding the vision

2 Knowing the 9 heart values

3

Practical steps to be READY to multiply the work of disciple-making:

Being committed to pray

Looking and listening for who and how God is leading you to serve

Building a team

Seeking unity by partnering with others

Creating opportunities for others to get involved

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Set

Speaking and living the Gospel in the world of sport (Pray.Play.Say)

Working in Teams

Learning through games

Facilitating small groups and teams

Knowing and communicating the Gospel to sports people, youth and children

Creative communication skills

Writing a lesson

Leading Discovery Bible Studies (DBS)

Teachable moments

Mentoring leaders

Biblical discipling

Coaching a team

Organizing a conference, festival or training event

Father studies

Bible and Sport (InSport- IS)

Church and Sport (IS)

World of Sport (IS)

Sport cultures and religions (IS)

Heart of the athlete (IS)

TOT

Online training

Internships

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Intro to Set

“I set my face like flint …” (Isaiah 50:7).

When the starter of a race calls out “Set”, it is time for a runner

to forget everything else and have complete focus on the track

and the finish line. The countless hours of training are now what

they rely on when the race soon begins.

In the RSG movement, the training seeks to equip those

involved with the necessary skills to go and make disciples. To

help your people be SET and ready to run, prepare them with:

1 Going deeper into the Heart and Vision and learning to live these every day

2 Character of a leader/disciple-maker

3 Skills for mission and service

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Go

1. Governing Bodies of Sport

2. High Profile Athletes

3. Sports Centers

4. Coaches and Teachers

5. Sports Camps

6. Clubs and Teams

7. Academies

8. All Abilities Sports

9. Proclamation – Sending and Receiving Teams

10. Chaplaincy

11. Action Sports

12. Church Services

13. Public Sports Screens

14. Resource Distribution

15. Sports Camps (MSE)

16. Sports Festivals

17. Community Cup*

18. KidsGames

19. FamilyGames

20. TeenGames

21. EdgeGames

22. Coaching for Life

23. Ubabalo Whole Life Coaching

24. Ubabalo Kids

25. Youth Sports Leadership Development

26. Max7 Kids

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Intro to Go

“Go make disciples …” were Jesus last and important words in

Matthew 28.

A runner will launch out of the blocks with all their strength at

the sound of the starter’s gun. GO! The New Testament is full of

examples of making disciples, from Jesus’ sending out his

disciples in Matthew 10 and Luke 10. To Paul’s journeys making

disciples across the Mediterranean region. Jesus mandate to GO

is at the heart of what every believer is meant to do.

In the RSG movement, wonderful models and ideas of how to

make disciples in many contexts have been developing and are

freely shared. In this book, 25 of these ways to GO are listed

with details of how to do them and where to find more

information. These are listed by:

1 A menu of the 25 ways by:

Sports level (interest and skill)

Age group

Variety of Contexts

Time and Resource options

2 25 ways to GO instructions

3 Going further and creating new ideas

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1 1 | U n d e r s t a n d i n g t h e v i s i o n

Ready Understanding the vision

The heart of the movement

Everything done in the movement is based on these nine

actions, all summarized as the ‘Heart’ of the movement:

What we do

Proclaim the Gospel

Make Disciples

Obey the Bible

Where we serve




How we do it

We live as servants

We work in teams

We build partnerships


The vision

The vision of Growing disciples in all nations for Christ in and

through the world of sport is about1:

Reaching all people, from the youngest child to the oldest

person in our communities.

Through evangelism and discipleship.

In the world of sport – where sport is a profession and a

person’s identity.

Through the world of sport – where sport is more a leisure

activity.

By seeing sport as a catalytic sphere to assist the church to

become more effective outside the 4 walls of the building.

By invading2 all spheres of society with Kingdom principles

by modelling how it can be done well in and through the

world of sport.

The mission and purpose:

The mission is Partnering to serve Christ's Kingdom in and

through the world of sport.

In Matthew 28:19 Jesus’ words to his disciples were: “Go

therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in

the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And

behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

The sports movement is an intentional disciple-making

movement. It seek to grow every member’s passion for God,

and sport, resulting in obedience to go into every country, every

city and every community around the world, and make disciples

for Christ in, through and around sport.

Sport is helping the Body of Christ – The Church – to fulfil its

mission in the world. The universal language of sport is

mobilizing church leaders and multitudes of servants to step

into this world as salt and light. It is the bridge to connect with

millions of people, of every age and culture, who have sport as

their passion.

1 Note for Orlando discussion – please discuss these points, to see how they could be worded as succinctly as possible and yet give depth and meaning to the vision statement. 2 (Comment from Si) Invading – or should it be influencing, serving, transforming? Invading can be misconstrued easily in different cultures. I assume that the ISC is primarily about sport, but the leaders who learn how to transform their communities through sport then go and influence other spheres of society?


While organic growth of the movement has been enormous, the

multiplication of disciples in, through and around sport will

always be the foundational purpose of this movement.

Some of the outcomes of the movement are:

Seeing excellent teams of servant leaders, that do not

stand still, but constantly birth and develop new sport

ministry teams. These are teams that disciple, nurture and

multiply out from their team. As this happens it is

spreading to every country3 of the world, in every one of

the hundreds of thousands of cities of the world and in

millions of communities and churches.

To see churches coming together in unity around the

universal language of sport.

To enable millions of church leaders realize their vision to

reach beyond the walls of the church into the communities

around them. Already thousands of churches are being salt

and light. They are getting their hands dirty with the real

needs in society – loving, listening and serving. This is

happening because of sport.

To see a true multiplication not addition of disciples of

Jesus, in every country, city, community, club and church,

through the multiplication of:

- Local open source Resources

- Local leadership

- Local trainers and trainers of trainers

- Local teams

- Local strategies and tools

- Local supporters

To see 20-30 million people, every year, giving their lives

to Christ from all countries of the world and being

followed up on through existed or new planted churches.

To be an interceding and prayerful network that trusts in

God alone for leadership and wisdom. To see that prayer

and intercession becomes a part of every event happening

within the network.

3 In the original it stated 230+ countries. The actual number of countries is defined differently by different entities. Do we want to put a number?

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Knowing the heart4

What we do

Proclaim the Gospel

We know, live, and tell the Gospel in the world of sport and

through the universal language of sport. (Colossians 1:6)

The Gospel is the powerful good news of salvation (Romans

1:16) that motivates us to live ‘life to the full’ now (John 10:10)

and gives hope for eternity. (Ephesians 1: 13-14, Philippians

3:20-21)

All of us are messengers of the Gospel and need to go with

boldness and confidence in God (Philippians 1:27-28, Acts 19:8).

We are called be vulnerable and humble, watching and listening

for the responsive person of peace. (Luke 10:5-7, Philippians

2:3-4)

Make Disciples

We are commanded by Jesus to go and make disciples who

desire to follow Him in all of life and invest in the lives of others

so that they also become disciples who make disciples.

(Matthew 28:18-20, 2 Timothy 2:2)

Disciple making teaches others to love and obey all that Jesus

commanded. (1 John 2:3-6)

Disciple making is best when it is intentional and relational, and

often begins before someone becomes a follower of Christ.

(Philippians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:2-8)

Obey the Bible

Everything we need to know about God and His desire for our

lives is in the Bible. (2 Timothy 3:16)

We study, teach and preach the Bible and together discover

what it says so that it shapes our attitudes, plans and actions. (2

Timothy 4:2, Colossians 1:28)

God transforms us as we obey the Bible. (2 Timothy 3:14-17, 1

Thessalonians 4:1-3, Colossians 1:9-10)

4 This is the outline of the Heart without a guide to go deeper. Following this is the version that would go deeper. We need to decide whether we just keep this summary OR the expanded version OR both. The expanded version is in the Set section of this book.


Where we serve


The Church is at the center of what God is doing; his primary

tool for mission - the expression of the Gospel on earth.

(Matthew 16: 18-20, Ephesians 1:22-23)

The Church is His unstoppable, universal body of believers who

gather locally for encouragement and evangelism - a fellowship

and a force. (Ephesians 1: 18-23, Ephesians 2: 19-22)

Sport provides a global, strategic opportunity for His Church to

grow.

The local church needs to be inspired and equipped to embrace

and nurture sports people of all levels of experience.


God’s design is that all of our lives, including play and sport, can

be used to worship Him. (Romans 12:1,2)

Sport is a universal language that motivates and connects

people everywhere.

While God gives some people greater talent in sport, we all have

the ability to enjoy sport. Sport is one way we can get to know

ourselves and God better. It provides a unique opportunity for

God to make us more like Him. (Romans 12:1-8)


The whole world is the Lord’s and His church is to be made up of

people from every country, city, and community for His glory.

(Psalms 24:1, Romans 14:11)

Jesus commissioned us to go into His world to make disciples.

Multiplication happens when these disciples make disciples.

(Matthew 28:19-20)

Mission through sport and to athletes can connect with every

culture and setting. It can be adapted to meet the needs of

individuals and communities. (1 Corinthians 9:22-26)


How we do it

We live as servants5

Jesus shows us the Kingdom perspective of greatness through

humility and obedience to His Father. (Ephesians 4:1-2,

Philippians 2:1-11)

God calls us to put the interests of others first even though it

runs against self-seeking human nature. (Mark 10:45,

Philippians 2:2-3)

God is in charge of the results of our labor. We are called to be

obedient servants and trust in His ways. (Proverbs 3:4-5)

We work in teams6

God is a team, working in total unity and purpose, as expressed

through the Trinity. (Genesis 1:26, 2:18)

The Church is the body of Christ and it works best when

common purpose, motivated by humility, unites all the parts.

Teamwork means giving unconditionally. (Romans 12:3-8)

Diversity in the team (culture, roles, spiritual gifts, maturity,

personality styles and talents), increases the strength of the

team, the potential for growth and multiplication. (1 Corinthians

12:12)


Partnering involves mutual submission to achieve common

goals larger than either person alone can achieve. It grows out

of a mutual respect for Jesus. (Ephesians 5:21)

Partnering seeks to bring people into the unity that God desires.

(John 17:21-23)

No one-person, church, denomination, organization can fulfill

the Great Commission on their own. We need each other to

fulfill Jesus’ plan. (Ephesians 4:11-16)

Partnering is difficult and needs perseverance. As each focus on

serving the Lord, trust grows and partnering will develop from

simple connections to complex collaboration. (Ephesians 6:6-7)

5 Hannes noted: In We live as servants I would like to have a third point: “What we do, is not depending on fruits”. For me and InSport it is very important, that on our camps and in supporting athletes it is unconditional (ie. Not dependent of their spiritual growth). Jesus healed 10 people, knowing that 9 are not coming back. Nevertheless he healed them. So what we are doing is not only the tool for conversion, it is building the athlete regardless of how they respond. 6 Hannes noted: Our “giving” is not depending on what we receive, teamwork means giving unconditionally.


The Gospel Summary #1

God’s rescue plan7

God loves us and made us in his image. Everything God made is

good! (Genesis 1:26-31).

However we all have a sinful nature and live in constant

rebellion to His rule. The consequence of sin is ultimately death,

without God and His goodness forever (Genesis 3:1-19, Roman

8:6-8).

Jesus, God’s son, is the only person who has ever lived a perfect

life with no sin. He loves us so much that He died a brutal and

unjust death on our behalf because God cannot ignore sin; it

must be dealt with (John 3:16).

Through His mercy and justice our problem of sin is fixed

through Jesus and we can live in right relationship with God (1

John1:8-9, Galatians 2:15-16).

Jesus came back to life to prove that He has conquered death

once and for all (1 Corinthians 15:2-6).

He offers salvation freely to those who repent and believe in

what He has done (Acts 3:19). This new relationship will

radically alter our life as we allow God’s Spirit (Ephesians 2:6-

10), who lives in each of His followers to shape all our thoughts

and actions (Romans 6:12-14, Ephesians 4:22-24, Philippians

4:9).

We have a short time on earth to help others know and

understand the Good News of Jesus before all things are finally

united under His rule and we spend eternity with God

worshipping and enjoying Him forever. (Ephesians 1:2-10)

Note: Some of these scriptures touch on a number of

ideas in the Gospel summary which is a problem in

including them in the text.

7 The ideal would be that we have one gospel summary. Both of the ones created by the Heart working team are here for the Orlando discussion.


The Gospel summary #2

1 God is love

“God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.” (1 John 4:16)

“… because you loved me before the foundation of the world!” (John 17:24)

2 God is the creator of all things and wants community with us

“… for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” (Revelation 4:11)

“But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9)

3 We are separated from God and can´t change that by behaving well

“There is no one who is righteous, not even one; there is no one who has understanding, there is no one who seeks God. All have turned aside, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, there is not even one.” (Romans 3:10-12)

“… since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23)

4 We have to die and it is God´s decision where we will spend eternity

“And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment.” (Hebrews 9:27)

5 Jesus Christ died for us on the cross. He is the only way to God

“For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God.” (1 Peter 3:18)

“Jesus said, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” (John 14:6)

6 Jesus Christ rose from death and is alive. Therefore we can live eternally

“He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said.” (Matthew 28:6)

7 God, in the form of the Holy Spirit, lives in each born again Christian

“But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.” (John 14:26)

“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13)

8 God invites us to surrender to him and follow him. We have to make the decision!

“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God’s wrath.” (John 3:36)

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Practical steps to be READY

To be ready to multiply the work of disciple making in and

through sport it is important to be active by:

Being committed to pray

In Matthew 9, Jesus describes God’s harvest field and the need

to ask the Lord of the Harvest to send workers into his harvest

field. Prayer is central to the work of sports around the world.

This is God’s work and His harvest field. Then seek to act.

Getting Ready

The following pages outline a number of key areas:

Looking and listening

Building a team

Seeking unity by partnering

Creating opportunities for others to get involved by

gatherings and trainings:

- Every Country Every City Conference

- 1.2.3. strategy

- International Sports Leadership Training

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Process of Looking and Listening

Many people in our movement can serve best by going into

places with no sports ministry/ or no sports ministry teams/ or

there is a team but not strong enough and help the leaders to

form the right teams and multiply in all countries, cities and

communities. For that we included here:

15 questions

To help the process of Looking and Listening to the needs in any

country, city, community, club and church:

Needs - The needs and challenges in your community

1. What are the key pressing issues in the society that can

gather a momentum of leaders from churches,

corporations and government around them (Fatherhood,

illiteracy, family separation, abuse, etc.)?

2. How can sport address those issues and mobilize people,

churches, organizations, etc. to work in collaboration

around solving these issues?

Opportunities - How we could meet these needs and challenges?

3. What could be the Major Sporting Event/ events that

create momentum to be used by your sports ministry

team if it exists?

4. What could be the best tracks of InSport that can serve

the critical mass of children, youth and above?

5. What could be the best tracks of CYCAS that can serve

the critical mass of children and youth?

Partners - Potential partners and team members

6. What will be the best composition of your sports

ministry team? (Number, number of denominations

involved, multiple gifts, etc.)

7. If you don’t have the right people in the team or if you

don’t have a team how will you recruit the right mix?

8. How many churches in the Country, City or Community

we are talking about? What are the 2-3 churches that if

you start envisioning they can lead the rest of the

churches to start sports ministry?

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9. Who could be the country, City, community or church

champion and who could be their successors?

10. Who is your mentor, mentee, coach, discipler and

disciple?

Next steps - Our plan

11. What could be the first initiative to start building your

team and could be a quick win to build on its momentum

the success of your ministry?

12. How do you define success in 3 months, 1 year, 3 years

and 10 years?

13. What could be your biggest threat? How will you deal

with it?

14. How could you build a financial support team who can

support your ministry and nurture you as a leader?

15. What could be the best training plan to train your team

on Ready, Set and Go for the coming year?

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Building a Team

Starting a potential High

Performance Team:

In the initial phase of starting a new team that can be developed and grow as a high performance

team we follow Jesus Model into recruiting the team, equipping them through missions,

transforming them into his partners and sending them with a goal for their lives to go and

multiply disciples.

From the four Gospels a close study to the coming verses will clarify how Jesus has done this:

Matthew

Matthew 3:18-22 Recruiting

Matthew 10 Equipping through missions

Matthew 14:14-21 & 15:32-39 Transformed them into His

partners in the ministry

Matthew 28:19 Commission and a goal to live for

Mark

Mark 1:14-20 Recruiting

Mark 6:7-13 Equipping through missions

Mark 6:30- 44 & 8:1-1 Transformed them into His partners in

the ministry

Mark 16:14-18 Commission and a goal to live for

Luke

Luke 6:12-16 Recruiting

Luke 9:1-6 Equipping through missions

Luke 9:10-17 Transformed them into His partners in the ministry

Luke 9: 44-49 Commission and a goal to live for

John

John 1:35-44 Recruiting

John 4:35-38 Equipping through missions

John 6:1-15 Transformed them into His partners in the ministry

John 17 Commission and a goal to live for

Also from those verses it is obvious that a team is not an end but it is just a start for

multiplication process that can grow so much towards Jesus’ great commission of going and

discipling all nations and baptizing them (Matthew 28:19-20) So at the start of forming any team

the team leader should always think about how this team will multiply and grow and Jesus

demonstrated this through 5 major key steps:


1. Selection: Jesus selected people from different backgrounds, different gifts, different jobs …

Jesus taught us the value of “Unity in Diversity”. Jesus selected the ones who wanted to follow

him not the super busy nor the super stars.

2. Envisioning: Jesus taught the disciples to live beyond of their paradigms and think about the

Kingdom and through missions they started to understand the great commission of the new

Church of Christ… The Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven.

3. Rooting: explained for the disciples how the Kingdom of God looks like and He started rooting

them into the principles and the laws of the Kingdom of God by teaching, living demonstrating

and challenging old paradigms

4. Transforming: Jesus knew that he was not raising individuals but the greatest team of disciples

and from what we see the disciples were together with Jesus most of the time as iron sharpens

iron the disciples were sharpening each other and Jesus was their teacher who was helping them

to understand the truth of Being one (John 17:21-24) community living together impacting the

bigger community.

5. Sending: Jesus sent the disciples together with a vision for a great future founded on: “Going”

into “All Nations” and “Discipling” the multitudes in truth and baptizing them

Dimensions of Growth

within any team:

Team never grow unintentionally, every team leadership can help their teams to grow by

focusing on 4 dimensions of growth:

1. Growing as one family because we are all the sons and daughters of God and within the

family the key value here is intimacy and acceptance

2. Growing together as one working team where each one has a responsibility and role to

be done and this demonstrate being servant leaders serving each other and building His

Kingdom

3. Growing as together as disciples in one school … the school of Christ learning and

growing in truth and sharpening each other

4. Growing as one body, the temple made of living stones united in Christ alone in prayer

and intercession

A simple exercise that can be done every 3 months to grow practically as a team together in all

those 4 directions is:

1. Let all the team choose the highest 2 values in each dimension that can help them to

grow into this dimension

2. Write a clear and shared definition on each value

3. Put actions to each value that can lead towards growing in these values

4. Make members of the team taking roles in leading the growth within those values by

making sure that actions are done in the right timing.

5. Review those values and actions every 3 months and make the required changes.


This exercise will create the right team culture that can carry this team towards multiplication

while the team’s vision, mission, goals and objectives are focusing on Jesus great commission of

discipling all nations and multiplying disciples in all nations.

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Partnering

Ephesians 4:1-7 (Key Word - Resilience)

Managing Change

1. Understand that Change is inevitable

“Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be

transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be

able to determine what God's will is—what is proper, pleasing,

and perfect.” Romans 12:2 (ISV)

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly

sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are

like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just

an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

C. S. Lewis

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the

circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change

yourself. That is something you have charge of. Jim

Rohn

Seek God’s wisdom & guidance through prayer and His

Word

Seek clarity and open communication with all on the team

Seek confirmation through the team

2. Bring partners along in the process of change as much as possible

“Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be

transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be

able to determine what God's will is—what is proper, pleasing,

and perfect.” Romans 12:2 (ISV)

Prepare for change (examine together the need for

change)

Plan for the change (explore together the necessary steps

to bring the change)

Provide helps for the change (equip all with relevant tools

for the change)

Progress needs to be monitored & studied (encourage

feedback to the change)

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3. Communicate the change to all

”For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not

think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of

yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God

has distributed to each of you.” Romans 12:3

Understand our audience (where they are at?)

Understand what we are communicating (what we are

trying to accomplish?)

Understand when we are saying it (sharing the right

message at the right time)

4. Explain the rationale for the change

”For just as each of us has one body with many members, and

these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ

we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to

all the others.” Romans 12:4-5

We are all different (do not have the same function &

passions)

We all understand differently (do not see things in the

same way)

We all called to different arenas for ministry (may not see

relevance for the change)

So we need to take time to explain not only the ‘what’ & ‘how’

but the ‘why’ for the change. Show how the proposed changes

are beneficial to the larger body of the movement or team.

5. Allow for feedback

”We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of

us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with

your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then

teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is

giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is

to show mercy, do it cheerfully.” Romans 12:6-8

Important to hear from everyone

Important to understand where each is coming from

Important to appreciate the contribution and perspectives

of all

Important to integrate good and helpful ideas to the

change process

Disagreements are not necessary bad or unhealthy if it is

properly dealt with. Take time to listen, understand & work

through issues of conflict or resistance. Resistant management

is as important as conflict management.


Collecting data, feedback & the analysis of these together with

new proposed amendments to the changes will go a long way.

6. Refine the propose change from feedback given that are helpful

”We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each

of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance

with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then




Invest time to better the proposed change (active

engagement with partners)

Involve key partners in the process of rewriting (for great

ownership)

Integrate good & helpful ideas to the change (respect for

partner’s contribution)

The journey together must never be underestimate, the bond

and friendship developed through the process builds trust and

willingness to change as “One”.

7. Re-communicate to all again

”We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of

us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with

your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then




Doing it many times

Doing it in many ways

Doing it at all levels

Communicate, communicate & communicate!

2 8 | M a n a g i n g C o n f l i c t

Managing Conflict

(Ephesians 4:1-7)

1. Humble ourselves before God

Acknowledge that we need help

Believe that God can help

Continually depend on God for help

2. Be open to the fact that we can be wrong

Allow God to open our eyes

Allow ourselves to be wrong

Allow others to show us our mistake

3. Be patient and listen to other opinion

Don’t be insecure (or defensive)

Don’t be insincere (or flippant)

Don’t be insensitive (or indifferent)

4. Interpret through the lenses of love

Consider others better than yourself

Consider how God sees us

Consider the bigger picture

5. Take time and make effort to understand the conflicting issue

Requires willingness to listen

Requires willingness to dialogue

Requires will power to change where necessary

6. Keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace

Understand that this unity is not optional (we are one

body)

Understand that this unity is precious (bought at a price)

Understand that this requires effort (to keep the spirit of

unity)

7. All eyes on Christ, return to His calling (Common Vision for the

partnering)

Focus on what unites (Love the Lord and others)

Focus on what’s required (Go Make Disciples)

Focus on what’s on the Father’s heart (Be his ambassadors

in every arena)

2 9 | M a n a g i n g C o n f l i c t

Keep Relationship and trust strong

1. Keep praying for one another

2. Make efforts in learning about what others are doing

3. Looking out for opportunities to serve the other

4. Connect others to appropriate resources that will help them

5. Ask for help from a position of strength (allow others to serve

alongside a stronger partner)

6. Open and transparent communication (no hidden agendas)

Seek clarification when in doubt

7. Build strong relationships that can take difference of opinion

Training

Steps to move people from the unknown to the known is

needed.

What does the Bible teaches?

Why do we need to get involved with working with one

another?

What's needed to manage change?

Who are others that need to be on this team & how do we

integrate them on this endeavor? (those already doing it

and have the expertise to help us all)

When & how will we commit ourselves to being involved

with this? Whether it's

change management, conflict resolution or building strong

relationships & trust.

Who are those in our circle of influence that we can

motivate to get involved with this?

3 0 | E C E C E v e r y C o u n t r y E v e r y C i t y C o n f e r e n c e s

ECEC Every Country Every City

Conferences

VISION

In this sports movement, the passion for the gospel and for sport is what brings us together – our

vision together is growing disciples in all nations for Christ, in an through the world of sport.

ECEC Conferences are an opportunity for the multiplication of our vision, to every country and

every city! The ECEC conference aims to multiply sports ministry teams in every country and

every city. Each ECEC conference engages in the process of sports ministry development in vision

casting, training leaders, networking, strategic planning and celebration.

Each ECEC conference is unique and accentuates these goals according to the context and needs

in the specific nation either on a national or city level. Therefore some ECEC conferences may

focus more on training than on the other goals. The ECEC conference can help expand local

ministry involvement and train people in new ways to serve in sports ministry.

IMPLEMENTING

The next topics are a simple checklist to help you as you plan an ECEC Conference at any level

(regional, national, state/provincial, city/town or church level).

Why

The purpose/goal behind each conference is the most critical question one can make as a

starting point for planning an ECEC Conference. These can be:

Vision Casting

Networking – Connecting People

Training Leaders

Strategic Planning for Multiplication

Celebrate in and through Sports

To know and to be clear about the purpose of any activity are prime directives for clarity, creative

development, and cooperation.

The principles/values as will be outlined later in this document will provide the parameters of

action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

What/Who or Who/What

In parallel to “why do we do this conference?” two other questions may arise: “who should be in

this conference?” and “what will be delivered in this conference?”. As you plan a conference you

must decide which question you want to answer first, knowing that the second question will be

definitively dependent on the first.

If the conference is to be implemented to fill a gap (a training need; a resource produced, etc.)

then the team need to decide who are the best people to bring together to achieve the goal. On

the other end, if the conference is intentionally directed to a specific audience (church leaders in

3 1 | E C E C E v e r y C o u n t r y E v e r y C i t y C o n f e r e n c e s

a city, a ministry team, etc.) then the team need to decide what is the content that needs to be

delivered to fulfill the needs of the group.

Outcome Visioning – what is success

What does a successful conference look like? How do you see the final result? What do you

expect to happen to participants as they leave the conference and go back to their normal lives?

A clear understanding of what is expected, will help planners and implementers to work hard

towards the outcomes, and gives a great framework for evaluation after the event. A successful

conference is more than providing good food, good facilities and good resources, the evidence is

seen in what the delegates do after they return home with clear vision, purpose, strategies and

tools to achieve their desired outcomes. Outcomes should be S.M.A.R.T (Specific, Measurable,

Achievable, Relevant, Time-bounded)

Brainstorming – capturing the ideas

A conference planning team doesn’t want to miss anything that will prevent the participants

from being fully engaged in the program and benefit from any delivered content/resource.

A good practice in conference planning is to have plenty of time for brainstorming on the

different “ingredients” that need to be put together in order to deliver an excellent experience to

all participants. This will provide the space for capturing ideas, and later organize into main

categories or areas of responsibility.

A good and effective technique for brainstorming is to do a mindmap (can be a drawing on a

paper where you write all your ideas) that will help the team to build into the big picture of the

conference they are about to plan and organize.

Organizing - grouping ideas into categories and subcategories

Once the organizing team captured what they think are the main ideas for the implementation of

a conference, these need to be organized into main categories or areas of responsibility, and

then, broken down into subcategories as many times as needed until all action steps are

identified.

The following example identifies the 6 main categories we usually use when organizing an ECEC

Conference at Global Level. Each category can have other sub-categories, and sub-sub-categories

as needed. Please note this is an example only, and some of the categories may not be applicable

in every case.

1 - Program

2 - Administration

3 - Travel

4 - Accommodation

5 - Food

6 - Meetings

Next Actions- identifying actions to move and implement

Once the team finishes the organization of different tasks into categories and sub-categories,

responsibilities should be delegated among the team, and next actions should be identified in

each area. Note that some tasks are inter-dependent requiring a careful communication between

the different areas of the conference planning.

Remarks:

These two pages are a simple and quick view of what it looks like in the process of planning

and implementing an ECEC Conference. For a detailed explanation of each area refer to the

complete ISC Conference Administrative Manual.

3 2 | S p o r t s E v e n t 1 . 2 . 3

Sports Event 1.2.3

The Sports Event 1.2.3 is intended to initiate or expand sustainable sports ministry develop in

host locations for small or large sports events. Almost every village, town or city annually hosts

sports events. The 1.2.3 plan provides an opportunity to initiate or expand sports ministry

trainings and strategies for the churches.

The 1.2.3 plan is simple and is intended to accomplish three phases consecutively. If your 1.2.3 is

only for your host location churches and partners than you can spread out the phases over

consecutive weekends, each night or whatever schedule makes the most sense for your

participants.

With good advance planning many sports events can take place for two years or longer. This

allows for annual 1.2.3 opportunities for the host location churches to be more successful in

developing sustainable sports ministry.

There are both open source trainings and strategies that should be used for each 1.2.3. Your local

sports facilitation team should determine which trainings and strategies make the most sense for

your one time or multi-year 1.2.3 opportunity. Each 1.2.3 participant should have an

understanding of each strategic sports program when a 1.2.3 is completed.

Major Sports Event 1.2.3

Considerations

Because the host location of these four major events are announced 7 years ahead of time you

have a unique opportunity to train and practice strategies in the years prior. The

recommendation is that you use the 1.2.3 strategy every year prior to the major event. Train as

many church and agency leaders as far ahead as possible. The churches should begin putting into

practice the legacy strategies and continuing to repeat them annually. When this is done what

has been practiced in the years prior to the sports event will provide ongoing legacy ministry

outcomes.

The four major global sports events always are important to the entire host country and not just

the host cities. In several recent host countries many 1.2.3 plans took place in cities and towns

across the countries. These four events are opportunities to help the churches of an entire

country.

The host location planning committee should always have in mind how the 1.2.3 will provide the

means to develop and grow ongoing church sports ministry with all cooperating churches.

All 1.2.3's are intended to have a conference training phase followed by an actual KidsGames and

Coaching for Life training experience and actual sports event outreach.

Phase 1 trainings phase options relating to desired legacy outcomes

CYCAS

In Sport

ISLT

SSP

3 3 | S p o r t s E v e n t 1 . 2 . 3

Phase 2 strategy experiential training relating to desired legacy outcomes

Primary

KidsGames

Coaching for Life

Multiyear 1.2.3's Additional Strategies to Consider

Community Cup

Church & Community Sports League (Incorporating life skills)

EdgeGames

FamilyGames

KidsGames

Sports Festivals

TeenGames

Phase 3 Sports Event Outreach Experiential Training

Big and small screens

Chaplaincy for all levels of sports and teams

Sports Camps

Sports Clinics - Coaching for Life

Youth Sports Leadership Development Training.

The strategies that result in churches working together in partnership and often include

community groups are:

Community Cup

KidsGames

Sports Festivals

Legacy and Follow up

Sports events programmes generate lots of energy and people tend to prepare for them. The

biggest risk in sports event ministry is not that you will fail to run lots of ministry, but that all the

activity, all the money, all the energy, all the use of people’s time fails to make any difference in

the long run. In other words, you must “start with the end in mind”, and have a plan for legacy

and follow up as that’s the main goal you’re really driving towards.

It is helpful if you are forming a steering group or executive committee to plan as follows. All

persons on a steering or executive group should make a commitment that extends 6 months, 1

year or 2 years beyond the conclusion of the sports event. If the steering group is only committed

to the conclusion of a sports event then the mind set reflects a lack of commitment and vision for

sustaining a long term legacy for the churches and agencies in your location.

In addition to the desired outcome of churches implementing sustainable sports trainings and

strategies your 1.2.3 should begin to expand the number of trained local sports facilitation

teams. Your 1.2.3 participants can together determine if one or more local sports facilitation

teams are needed to serve the churches in different size host locations.

3 4 | I n t e r n a t i o n a l S p o r t s L e a d e r s h i p T r a i n i n g - I S L T

International Sports

Leadership Training - ISLT

Background

The International Sports Leadership Training known as ISLT, is one strategy of nine strategic

programs under the International Sports Coalition network, the biggest and most impacting

sports ministry network in the world, in terms of number of countries participating (200+) and in

terms of the ministry programs serving a wide variety of people in the world of sport, from

novice to high profile and from ministry leaders to people who don’t know Christ at all.

The nine strategic programs are designed to serve the needs of each segment of the people of

sport, from evangelism to chaplaincy and from discipleship to leadership. In December 1998, the

ISC facilitation team recognized that the initial pioneering phase in sports should be followed by a

second phase, which would make use of previously acquired knowledge and further develop

sports ethics, sports management and sports methods. To this end the International Sports

Leadership School (ISLS) was formed in 1999 to train a worldwide-web of new generation

leaders, in a thirteen-week residential course in South Africa. Now the training opportunities are

extended to national and regional levels as follows:

Level 1: takes place within churches, cities and countries (6-7 days).

Level 2: takes place through the different regions (9 - 28 days).

Level 3: takes place at ISLS located in South Africa (3 months).

Aims of ISLT

To serve the need for national and regional training.

To share the newest training methodology and content.

To facilitate partnerships between the regional schools.

To train two leaders from each country at ISLS to an advanced level so that they are equipped

to coordinate sports opportunities.

To provide a unique, culturally diverse learning environment consisting of trainers and

participants from a variety of countries.

To provide opportunities for ISLT leaders from many countries to form friendships leading to

cross cultural partnerships.

Links to other Strategic Programs

All leaders in training are introduced to the whole spectrum of global sports opportunities

through the nine Strategic Programs of the ISC. They are taught how to integrate these nine

Strategic Programs into a contextually relevant plan. The leaders are equipped to serve all

Strategic Programs in their Strategic Regional Council (SRC) mini-regions.


ISLT Content

Videos available on the resource DVD and on the online website (www.traininginsport.com)

provide an introduction and explanation to each module taught at ISLT Level 1 and ISLT Level 2 as

well as explaining the values of the ISC.

ISLT Modules

Modules ISLT Level 1 Sessions ISLT Level 2 Sessions

1 Effective Teams Building Effective Teams

4 Leading Effective Teams 1

2 Bible and Sport Bible and Sport 1 4 Bible and Sport 2A *Handling the Bible 2B

2

3 Explaining the Gospel Explaining the Gospel 1

4 Explaining the Gospel 2 3

4 Influential Leadership Servant Leadership 4 Captaining the Ship 4

5 Understanding Sport Understanding Sport

2 Valuing Sport 5

6 Sports Partnerships Strategic Sports Partnership 1 2 Strategic Sports Partnership 2 6

7 Uncovering Culture - 0 Uncovering Culture 7

8 ISC Strategies ISC Strategies 4 ISC Strategies 8

ISC 9 Strategic Programs

At Level 1, 4 sessions should be allocated for the introduction of the 9 Strategic Programs of the

ISC. This can be split over the course. One hour should be given for each of the mission strategies

of Proclamation by Sports People (PSP), Serving the People of Sport (SPS), Church Sport (CS),

CYCAS & Major Sports Event (MSE). In the remaining time you should cover the strategies of ISLT,

ASC, and SRC. (Please note that Strategic Sports Partnerships (SPS) is already covered as core

module 6.)

At Level 2, 9 sessions should be given over to the Strategic Programs of the ISC with 3 sessions

allocated to Church Sport (CS). Additionally there should be specialized training on 1 or 2 of the

following mission strategic programs: CYCAS, Serving the People of Sport (SPS), Proclamation by

Sports People (PSP) and Major Sports Events (MSE). (Please note that Strategic Sports

Partnerships (SPS) is already covered as core module 6.)

At a Level 2 school at least one day should be spent on Church Sport (CS). Additionally, a

minimum of two days should be spent on at least 3 of the 4 mission strategic programs, taken

from Proclamation by Sports People (PSP), Serving the People of Sport (SPS), CYCAS & Major

Sports Event (MSE).

The Sport in Ministry Map

A single session should also be timetabled to present The Sport in Ministry Map by Lowrie

McCown. More information about the map can be found in ‘Focus on Sport in Ministry’ by Lowrie


McCown & Valerie Gin (2003) or e-mail [email protected]© 2011 - ISLT Level I Manual

Page # 5

LEVEL 2 School

If running a 3-4 week ISLT Level 2 School the following additional features should be incorporated

into the schedule:

Sports coaching on selected sports

Regular fitness training

On-going team building through experiential learning activities

Outreaches

ISLT Level 3

This advanced level is only taught at ISLS – International Sports Leadership School – It is a 3-

month invitational residential school in South Africa. It takes the basic principles of all the

modules taught at level 1 and 2 and develops them as the leaders are trained and equipped for

global leadership in the sport mission movement.

Suggested Daily Schedule

Here is one model for the daily schedule of the ISLT courses. You may adapt this to suit your

context:

07:00-07:45 Devotions

07:45-08:45 Breakfast

08:45-10:15 Session 1

10:15-10:45 Break

10:45-12:15 Session 2

12:15-12:45 Break

12:45-14:00 Session 3

14:00-18:00 Time for fitness/sport/rest

18:00-19:15 Session 4

19:15-20:15 Supper

20:15-21:45 Session 5

Towards the end of all ISLT Level 1 and 2 courses there should be a session entitled ‘What do I do

now? – Assessment, application and review. This will be linked to the assessment, details of

which can be found at the end of this introduction.© 2011 - ISLT Level I Manual Page # 6


ISLT Methodology

Learning to be community: The ISLT training courses are designed to meet the participants’

needs which are: knowledge (to know), skills (to do) and attitude change (to be). In addition

there is a fourth dimension which is for the participants to learn how to become a transformed

community, living by God’s word, the Bible. When they return to their communities and countries they

should be able to impact their contexts, having a clear picture in mind of a preferred future,

represented in a transformed community.

Multi-cultural participants: All activities are designed to involve the participants together in a

variety of situations where they can learn how to live together and stretch each other using the

diversity of cultures and languages represented.

Active learning: All sessions are interactive, giving the opportunity for the participants to grasp

the learning, reflect on it, and channel this learning towards the practical applications of this

learning in their different cultural contexts.

Pragmatic: At the end of each module the trainers conclude their trainings with practical

applications for the participants to connect the learning to their own ministries and for them to

come up with practical questions to know how to make this learning work. In addition, each one

of the participants needs to prepare a ministry project plan during the training period. In this plan

the participants will include what he/she will be practically doing when they return back to their

context.

Experiential: The participants learn a lot through experiential learning activities like high and low

ropes courses, experiential learning games and outdoor team activities. Experiential learning is

the best way to meet the needs of the different learning styles whether the participants are

activists, reflectors, theorists or pragmatists. This can be seen in the following diagram:

ADD DIAGRAM

Experiencing Activity, Game or Challenge Debriefing / Reflection Sharing feelings and reactions

towards the game Theory / Conclusion Extracting concepts and meanings Application / Practice

Applying what was learnt to similar or different situations Experiential Learning Cycle ©

3 8 | E x p l o r i n g t h e h e a r t

Set Overview

Intro to be written once we know what needs to be in the Set

section. At the moment the idea is to cover:

Going deeper into the Heart and Vision and learning to

live these every day (outlines of the Heart training

sessions)

Character of a leader/disciple-maker (outline of making

disciples)

Skills for mission and service (‘generic’ skills needed across

all strategies)

Exploring the heart8

Following is the expanded Heart material with self-reflection

and training ideas.

8 This is the expanded version of the Heart with ideas of how to go deeper. We need to decide where this goes?

3 9 | P r o c l a i m t h e G o s p e l

Proclaim the Gospel

We know, live, and tell the Gospel in the world of sport and through the universal language of

sport. (Colossians 1:6)

The Gospel is the powerful good news of salvation (Romans 1:16) that motivates us to live ‘life to

the full’ now (John 10:10) and gives hope for eternity. (Ephesians 1: 13-14, Philippians 3:20-21)

All of us are messengers of the Gospel and need to go with boldness and confidence in God

(Philippians 1:27-28, Acts 19:8). We are called be vulnerable and humble, watching and listening

for the responsive person of peace. (Luke 10:5-7, Philippians 2:3-4)

Go deeper- Bible references

Colossians 1:6, Romans 1:16, John 10:10, Ephesians 1: 13-14, Philippians 3:20-21, Philippians

1:27-28, Acts 19:8, Matthew 9-10, Luke 10, Philippians 2:3-4, Hebrews 4:12,

Questions to ask yourself

Am I bold and excited to share the Gospel or do I become hesitant? Why do you think this is

so? What will you do about this?

Pray for people you want to share the Gospel with. Who are you praying for?

What do you think is the Spirit’s role in people understanding the Gospel and responding?

Why is it important to listen and understand the situation and perspectives of another person

when we want to share the Gospel with them?

Activities to explore this

Explore the Bible

Find all the times that Paul explains the Gospel in his letters. Here are some of the references: Romans 3:21-26, 1 Corinthians 15 3-8, Ephesians 2:1-10, Colossian 1:15-23, Titus 3:3-7. How are they alike and how are they different? Why does he use different imagery to explain the Good News?

Write a 100 word testimony

Try and write a testimony of how you first came to understand the Gospel and become a follower of Jesus. Practice telling others.

Replace jargon words

Find new words to explain each of these truths about the Gospel so people will understand more easily. Salvation, sin, repentance, sanctification, redemption, eternal life, grace, Christ, Son of God.

Watch the Video ‘Parable of the Sower’

Discuss the different soils? What is implied in the story about the role of the farmer? What does Jesus say about hearing and responding to God’s Word?

Media and tools

Videos - Parable of the Sower - find on Max7.org

6 windows

4 0 | M a k e D i s c i p l e s

Make Disciples

We are commanded by Jesus to go and make disciples who desire to follow Him in all of life and

invest in the lives of others so that they also become disciples who make disciples. (Matthew

28:18-20, 2 Timothy 2:2)

Disciple making teaches others to love and obey all that Jesus commanded. (1 John 2:3-6)

Disciple making is best when it is intentional and relational, and often begins before someone

becomes a follower of Christ. (Philippians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:2-8)


Matthew 28:18-20, 2 Timothy 2:2, 1 John 2:3-6, Philippians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:2-8, Matthew

9:35- 10:1


How do I need to grow as a disciple of Jesus right now?

Who is discipling you? (Find a mature and accessible believer whom you trust)

Who are you discipling? (Find a younger person of the same gender whom you can connect

with, take an interest and meet regularly with to encourage in their faith walk)


Bible investigation- Study how Jesus nurtured the faith and practice of His disciples. Create a set

of principles from what you read together. Discuss as a team.

Media and tools

Diagram of the discipling process covering the issue that discipling doesn’t just begin after

conversion.

4 1 | O b e y t h e B i b l e

Obey the Bible

Everything we need to know about God and His desire for our lives is in the Bible. (2 Timothy

3:16)

We study, teach and preach the Bible and together discover what it says so that it shapes our

attitudes, plans and actions. (2 Timothy 4:2, Colossians 1:28)

God transforms us as we obey the Bible. (2 Timothy 3:14-17, 1 Thessalonians 4:1-3, Colossians

1:9-10)


2 Timothy 4:2, Colossians 1:28, 2 Timothy 3:14-17, 1 Thessalonians 4:1-3, Colossians 1:9-10,

Hebrews 1:1-2a, Psalm 119:105, Hebrews 4:12


What does the Bible say about itself? Do you act like you believe this?

After a Bible study or sermon are you more likely to say ‘Excellent, that was a good message!’

or are you more likely to say, ‘What will I obey and who will keep me accountable to this?’

Why?


Practice Discovery Bible study:

Discover what the verses say

Discover what the verses mean

Discover how the principles work in our lives, make a commitment and obey

Media and tools

Discovery Bible Study Method/ Inductive Bible study

4 2 | I n a n d t h r o u g h t h e L o c a l C h u r c h


The Church is at the center of what God is doing; his primary tool for mission - the expression of

the Gospel on earth. (Matthew 16: 18-20, Ephesians 1:22-23)

The Church is His unstoppable, universal body of believers who gather locally for encouragement

and evangelism - a fellowship and a force. (Ephesians 1: 18-23, Ephesians 2: 19-22)

Sport provides a global, strategic opportunity for His Church to grow.

The local church needs to be inspired and equipped to embrace and nurture sports people of all

levels of experience.


Matthew 16: 18-20, Ephesians 1: 18-23, Ephesians 2: 19-22, Ephesians 3:10, 1 Corinthians 12:26-

28, Matthew 16:18, John 17:22, Ephesians 4:11-13, 1 Peter 2:9


How can you help the church to understand Sports ministry better? Can you explain sports

ministry in 30 seconds? Try it!

When you think of your ministry in sport, do you see yourself as serving from outside the local

church or serving as part of it? Why?

How is Church a ‘fellowship’ and how is it a ‘force’? Is your local church balanced in these?


Local church ideas brainstorm- Who specifically in the broader community or within the

church community does your local church concentrate their efforts on? Why?

How could your local church reach out and help sports people in your community better?

The importance of the church- List the reasons that the church is at the very centre of what

God is doing in the World?

Media and tools

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God’s design is that all of our lives, including play and sport, can be used to worship Him.

(Romans 12:1,2)

Sport is a universal language that motivates and connects people everywhere.

While God gives some people greater talent in sport, we all have the ability to enjoy sport. Sport

is one way we can get to know ourselves and God better. It provides a unique opportunity for

God to make us more like Him. (Romans 12:1-8)

Go deeper- Bible reference

Romans 12:1-8


How do you see worship? What has sport got to do with this?

What activities do most people associate worship with?

How is God using sport to shape your character? Give examples.

How and what has sport taught you about life and God?


Investigate the McCown map9 - take time to understand the diagram and place yourself and

your focus group on the map. Where do you fit on the McCown map?

Athlete’s needs explored- Work out the particular needs of each type of athlete on the

McCown map continuum. Gather in small groups and share ideas. Work out how the church

can help meet these needs.

Media and tools

‘Focus on sport and ministry’ book by L. McCown and V. Gin.10

9 McCown map or Sports Ministry Map 10 Do we want to put anyone’s name or any non-open source materials?

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Sports Ministry Map

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The whole world is the Lord’s and His church is to be made up of people from every country, city,

and community for His glory. (Psalms 24:1, Romans 14:11)

Jesus commissioned us to go into His world to make disciples. Multiplication happens when these

disciples make disciples. (Matthew 28:19-20)

Mission through sport and to athletes can connect with every culture and setting. It can be

adapted to meet the needs of individuals and communities. (1 Corinthians 9:22-26)


Psalms 24:1, Romans 14:11, Matthew 28:19-20, 1 Corinthians 9:22-26


What neighboring region, city or village can you help start sports ministry in?

How might their needs be different from your own? How are they similar?

What tools would work best for them?


Make a world map with people and pray- Give each person a name of a country. Explain that

we are going to create a map of the world by standing in certain positions in the room. Ask

one person to start (eg The person holding India might stand in the middle of the room).

Others then find their positions. In small groups now share what you know about the current

situation in that country and pray together.

Make a map of your country- draw it on large paper. Investigate which areas have sports

ministry and which do not. Pray and strategize together.

Media and tools

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We live as servants

Jesus shows us the Kingdom perspective of greatness through humility and obedience to His

Father. (Ephesians 4:1-2, Philippians 2:1-11)

God calls us to put the interests of others first even though it runs against self-seeking human

nature. (Mark 10:45, Philippians 2:2-3)

God is in charge of the results of our labor. We are called to be obedient servants and trust in His

ways. (Proverbs 3:4-5)


Ephesians 4:1-2, Philippians 2:1-11, Mark 10:45, Matthew 20: 25-28, Luke 9:23


In what way did Jesus redefine what it means to be great? (Mark 10: 35-45)

How did Jesus serve? List all the ways.

How can you be sure that you really am serving with the right motives and not just hoping or

imagining that you are?


Self-assessment- read Galatians 3:23 to understand the characteristics of the servant attitude.

How do you rate yourself in each of the 9 fruit of the spirit? Where do you need to allow God

to work? Who will you tell and be accountable to in this?

Secret servant game-

Media and tools

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We work in teams

God is a team, working in total unity and purpose, as expressed through the Trinity. (Genesis

1:26, 2:18)

The Church is the body of Christ and it works best when common purpose, motivated by

humility, unites all the parts. Teamwork means giving unconditionally. (Romans 12:3-8)

Diversity in the team (culture, roles, spiritual gifts, maturity, personality styles and talents),

increases the strength of the team, the potential for growth and multiplication. (1 Corinthians

12:12)


Genesis 1:26, 2:18, Romans 12:3-8, 1 Corinthians 12:12


What is the difference between a group and a team?

What is the difference between ‘the body’ and a team?

How should a body function? What can we learn from this analogy?

How can you successfully multiplying teams?


Create a big organic machine- Ask the group to stand in a big circle. One person is asked to

come to the middle to be the first part of a machine by doing a certain action that they invent.

Another joins them and does a different action that somehow connects with the first person’s.

other join the ‘machine ‘ in this manner.

Create a simple team vision statement- make sure everyone can remember it and say it

regularly.

Media and tools

Team diagnostics – DISC, Birkman,

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Partnering involves mutual submission to achieve common goals larger than either person alone

can achieve. It grows out of a mutual respect for Jesus. (Ephesians 5:21)

Partnering seeks to bring people into the unity that God desires. (John 17:21-23)

No one-person, church, denomination, organization can fulfill the Great Commission on their

own. We need each other to fulfill Jesus’ plan. (Ephesians 4:11-16)

Partnering is difficult and needs perseverance. As each focus on serving the Lord, trust grows and

partnering will develop from simple connections to complex collaboration. (Ephesians 6:6-7)


Psalm 133, John 17:21-23, 1 Corinthians 12 and 13, Ephesians 4:11-16, Ephesians 5:21, Ephesians

6:6-7


What are the things that stop effective partnering?

What can I learn from the partnership mistakes in the past?

What models of effective partnering have you seen?


Four person pulling experiential game- Four people hold hands and try to get as many points

as possible by dragging the others to their own corner. Play game a second time to investigate

partnering.

Media and tools

Partnering Continuum

Aim Lower Video

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A guide to making disciples

introduction to make disciples

Counter Intuitives:

Through the next study your intuition or common sense will indicate the following differences

from what you would expect:

That it is about obedience not knowledge

That you Disciple to conversion

That the Gospel starts at Creation

That it is the ordinary not the ordained

Great Commission

Read Mat. 4:19 and Mat. 28:19-29 with the intention to answer the question: Why has God

reached out to us?

The Bible teaches us that God has created us to be followers of Jesus and fishers of men. All

believers should learn 3 things from the Great Commission:

Go, not come – we must go where the lost people are, and not just wait for people to attend

our program.

Share with everybody, not just some – share with everyone because you never know who God

will choose.

Make trainers, not simply church members – train every believer to obey what he learns and

pass it on (to be a trainer).

The goal is to obey the Great Commission and not just be excited about it. Conviction does not

equal obedience.

process of making disciples

Prayer Strategy

Making disciples should start with prayer and goes with prayer. The Holy Spirit plays the most

important and active role. We need to be filled with the Spirit through prayer in order to join Him

and cooperate with Him.

The Bible teaches us about the importance of prayer and collaboration with the Holy Spirit in

making disciples. Lets take a look at 2 examples:

Jesus and the disciples – Mat. 9:36-28; 10:1,5. What do we learn about God? What is our

responsibility? What happens after we pray?

Cornelius and Peter – Acts 10:1-2,9,44. Who was the connecter between the lost household

and the disciple-maker? How did they find each other?

Many times, Jesus rebuked the disciples for little or lack of faith. Our faith will grow, if we trust

and pray by pronouncing the many promises about multiplication and the power of the Holy

Spirit that are in the Bible.

Write down the names/circles and pray – write down all the names of people in your circle of

influence. Think about people you meet regularly in sports circles – clubs, leagues, sports events,

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gyms, etc. Take time to pray that God will open up the hearts of these people and create

opportunities in the coming days as you go to witness to them.

Sow Generously To Find a Good Soil

The goal is to catalyze multi generational discipleship. Think about the example with seedless

grapes and grapes with seeds. Study Mat 13:1-23 by answering the questions: What is the most

fruitful soil? How many fruits does this soil bring? What should I do to discover the good soil?

How does this connect with discipleship?

A good soil is one that responds in obedience to the spiritual lesson to produce abundant

harvest. Mat. 10:5-20 and Luke 10:1-11,17 teaches us that Jesus calls this good soil - a son of

peace or a worthy person in the household. Next step in the discipleship making would be to

identify who is this worthy person of peace who can open the door or catalyze multigenerational

discipleship in the circle of influence.

Moving People Into Discipleship

The common mistake is that you think it is best to wait until the person of peace will come out of

the forest like a fearful animal and you will get it. Instead of that, Jesus recommends 3 P’s in

those 2 passages on how we can find them.

1. Presence - Engaging in the community and spending enough time with people.

2. Proclamation - Sharing your open spiritual life statements with people, testimonies,

stories, and the Gospel to see in whom has God been working and drawing himself to.

3. Power - Offering people to pray by faith for the problems they are facing, so they can be

witnesses of God’s power.

Your goal as a disciple-maker is to move people from being lost into discipleship. Some people

are ready for formal discipleship right away, for others it might take time “presence” to get ready.

The goal of discipleship is to help them to become self-feeders from the Word and obedient to

the Spirit.

Remember that our God is the Lord of the harvest. He is growing the spiritual desires in the

hearts of people and making them ready for the harvest. Our job is to pray that God will open our

spiritual eyes to see where people are at the moment, and what God wants us to do in order to

move them to the next point. It is important to establish Biblical DNA from the beginning.

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Discovery Bible Study

Two models

Model 1 represents the traditional approach of discipleship

where the teacher has a lesson and is in charge and only skillful

/ knowledgeable people can reproduce the lesson.

Model 2 is when the Word of God facilitates the discipleship

meeting, everyone is in charge, and it is easy to duplicate.

Establish DNA early by actions and repetition.

How to do Discovery Bible Study

We call Model 2 discipleship approach Discovery Bible Study or

DBS. DBS has 3 parts. Whether it is during dinnertime at

somebody’s place, or over a cup of coffee at the coffee shop, or

20 min break at work, you can divide your discipleship time in 3

parts.

LB: Member care – What happened in your life between now

and our last meeting?

LB: Worship – What was exciting in your life? What are

you thankful for?

LB: Loving Accountability – How did you obey the Scripture

from last meeting? With whom did you share the Gospel?

LB: Vision Casting – Share a short story that encourages

multigenerational discipleship.

LUp: New Lesson

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- The Scripture

- In my words

- I will statement

- With whom will I share it? Practice

retelling this story. Practice sharing the

Gospel

LF: Setting the goals – Who will I share it with? Who are 5

people that I will pray for and try to share the Gospel with

before next meeting?

LF: Prayer commissioning – Commission each other in

prayer to obey the Word and to proclaim the Gospel.

The best environment for the discipleship process is a group.

Groups multiply faster, remember more, learn quickly, and are

self-corrected. In most of the New Testament’s examples the

whole household or community were engaged in Scripture

discovery. If you begin with one person, try to ask him to repeat

it in a group or with his community / family for DBS.

Choose the Scripture Model according to the situation the

discipleship group is in. It is best to start from Creation and lead

to Christ. For those, who experience salvation, the suggestion is

to do a series of 6 meetings with passages on the subjects: #1

assurance of salvation; #2 baptism; #3 church; #4 communion:

the Lord’s supper; #5 perseverance in persecution; #6 great

commission.

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Skills

Useful skills across the whole

movement

Through discussion in Orlando, we need to decide on what core skills we might want to highlight and

elaborate on in the RSG Book. Here are some possibilities:

Foundational Skills and understandings

Speaking and living the Gospel in the world of sport

(Pray.Play.Say)

Working in Teams

Learning through games

Facilitating small groups and teams

Knowing and communicating the Gospel to sports people,

youth and children

Creative communication skills

Writing a lesson

Leading Discovery Bible Studies (DBS)

Teachable moments

Mentoring leaders

Biblical discipling

Coaching a team

Organizing a conference, festival or training event

Father studies

Bible and Sport (InSport- IS)

Church and Sport (IS)

World of Sport (IS)

Sport cultures and religions (IS)

Heart of the athlete (IS)

TOT

Online training

Internships

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RSG Training package Ideas

Structure of the whole course

Ready

Vision

Heart

Set

Skills and understandings

Strategies

Go

Community consultation

Implementation

Evaluation and redirection

Vision session

AIM: Inspire people to see sport in the light of kingdom

opportunities. They will understand its potential and see

examples from around the world of how communities have

used and adapted these strategies.

What is the need in our world?

To reach all (many) Look at the scale of world population

growth, age groups, Esther’s dots etc…

To reach every group (every culture, subculture, team,

sport…)

What opportunities do we have?

Jesus said of the harvest…’it is plentiful but the workers

are few.’

Opportunities in the world of sport. Articulate InSport and

ThruSport concept.

Unique opportunities in this present age. (MSE, internet,

technology, travel, language)

Snapshots of RSG in action

Show and tell stories where people are embracing sport to

fulfill the Great commission. Good models of InSport and


ThruSport. (video examples and sharing from effective

local models)

Brief history of sports ministry

RSG as a Network verses organization

Point to the Heart of movement session.

Heart session

AIM: Introduce people to the ‘Heart of the Movement’ by

allowing the group to wrestle with 3 questions about the

activities of the ISC: what, where and how we do it?

Intro

What we do?

We proclaim the Gospel, make disciples and obey the Bible.

Where we do it?

In local churches and sports teams in every country and every

city.

How we do it?

We serve in teams and partner willingly.

Wrap-up

Foundational Skills and

understandings

AIM: Identify the generic skills that are needed across the

movement and train people in them.

See examples on the previous pages with the aim to cover

key sessions of ISLT, CYCAS, CS, SSP, etc.


Strategies

AIM: Briefly outline the distinctiveness and approach of each

strategy. Point to further and deeper training in any of these

areas structured in increasing complexity. (eg Ubabalo level 1-4)

InSport

Chaplaincy and sports mentoring

Value integrated training

Sports academies

Others

Through Sport

GCG strategies

Ubabalo

YSLD

Festivals

Max7Kids

KidsHubs

MSE

Community Consultation

AIM: How to go through a process of consultation, listening,

vision casting and local ownership to ensure that the best

approach in sports ministry is chosen for a particular context.

Implementation

AIM: How to adapt strategies to best apply the principles to a

local context.

Evaluation and redirection

AIM: How to evaluate the effectiveness of a strategy and go

through a process of constant adaption for the future.


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Go Overview

To be added is an introduction to the GO strategies followed by

single pages (like in the Big Book 2013 and on the pages

following) of diagrams covering all of the GO strategies by:

By Sports Level

By Age Group

By Context

By Time and Resources

This will be done last once the GO strategies are finalized and in

the final order as below:

1 Introduction

2 Sports level SM map and resources mapped onto the diagram

3 Age group Age diagram and tools mapped on

4 Variety of Contexts Examples of using the tools in cities, villages, jungles, MSE, prisons, clubs, schools, etc.

5 Time and Resource options

Diagram of one day events through to long term strategies

Diagram of high resource down to low resource needs

6 25 ways 2 page x 25 summaries of each sub-strategy of INsport (10), CYCAS (10 or so?) and MSE (5?). These will then NOT be listed in the 3 SPs, but as 25 ways to GO.

7 Going further and creating new ideas

How to continue and develop

Evaluation Tools

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GO Strategies diagrams

Following are sample disgrams from the November Big Book. These will need to be adapted to

include all the GO strategies in the RSG book. They are just here for the discussions:



Notes and diagrams


Notes and diagrams


Notes and diagrams


Notes and diagrams


1. Governing Bodies of Sport

Introduction

One of the most important and influential people in the world of sports is the Governing Bodies

of Sport.

They are often the decision makers. Whenever they go bad, they affect the whole sport and that

has caused a lot of problems in many countries and has also affected the athletes. Whenever it

goes well, it positively influences the sport and many individuals.

Problems identified in the Governing Bodies of Sport

Struggling for power / politics

Corruption

Immorality / cheating

Abuse of Drugs

Organizational issues

Infighting

Needs identified in the Governing Bodies of Sport

Prayer

Support

Encouragement

Godly Wisdom

Good team

Our Vision

To serve, influence and develop relationships with the Governing Bodies of Sport

Our Mission

To work with Men and Women of Peace representing the Governing Bodies of Sport to be a voice

for the redemption and transformation in the World of Sport.

Long Term Outcomes

Serving the Christians in their positions.

Christian community as a valuable partner.

A change in the culture of sport.

An increase in the number of Christians in the Governing Bodies of Sport.

Guidelines for people who serve the Men of Peace

Pray for the identification of Men of Peace in the Governing Bodies of Sport.

Establish relationship with them.

Develop partnership.

Training and equipping the Men of Peace to serve.

Assist/help the Men of Peace in their service.

Continue to keep praying for these Men of Peace.


2. High Profile Athletes

Mission Statement

To serve, support, disciple, mentor, envision, train and encourage High Profile Athletes to share

their faith and proclaim the gospel.

Vision Statement

To see multitudes of High Profile Athletes – in every culture and every country – reflecting the

glory and character of God in the world of sport through their talents, skills and a lifestyle that

will encourage their peers and fans to become followers of Jesus Christ, thus reaching the world

for Christ through the universal language of sport.

Who we serve

High Profile Athletes, and those called to serve and disciple High Profile Athletes for Christ.

Strategy

To identify and train mature believers who love the Lord, the gift of sport, and the lost.

Teach them to become disciplers, servants, and mentors of athletes.

Encourage them to become trainers of trainers, committed to passionately multiplying and

evolving the next generation of HPA’s, with the purpose of proclaiming the gospel and serving

the world of sport. (2 Timothy 2:2)

Resources currently available

Serving the People of Sport Manual

Proclamation by Sports People Manual and ppt.

Chaplaincy ppt by Alex Ribeiro

Focus on Sport in Ministry by Lowrie McCown and Valerie Gin

God’s Game Plan - FCA

Who won the World Cup? by Alex Ribeiro (English, Spanish and Portuguese).

Atletas de Cristo – Alex Ribeiro (Portuguese)

Cambia de Ritmo – Jaime Fernandez Garrido (Spanish, Portuguese, English

Useful Weblinks

www.thegoal.com

Who can I contact

Paul Kobylarz, Sports Pastor -Traders Point Christian Church (tpcc.org), Olympic Chaplain


3. Sports Centers

The Need

In almost every country of the world the top-level athletes will spend weeks, months or even the

entire year training at some kind of National Sport Center. The athletes will be provided the best

possible conditions for physical training. Even opportunities for mental conditioning will be

made available. But in very few cases will there be a provision for the nurture and care of their

spiritual lives. Many Christian athletes will feel isolated and lonely - without fellowship. The non-

Christian athletes will not have an opportunity to hear about the difference that Jesus Christ can

make in their lives and in their competition.

There are also millions of men, women and children participating in recreational sport every

week at local community centers.

The Opportunity

We believe that this is a mission field that needs to be attended to. We also believe that the

doors could easily be opened to minister to the professional and Olympic athletes who train and

live at these Official Sport Centers.

We also believe that other Christians can be encouraged to start their own sports centers by

hearing about and learning from existing successful models that can be multiplied.

The Vision

Our vision is to see at least one person working and ministering at each of the hundreds of

training centers around the world. We want to see every high-level athlete in the world have the

opportunity to get to know a man or woman of God and discover the difference that Jesus Christ

can make in their lives - especially in the area of sport. We are looking at three models of

ministry venues:

An existing National or Olympic training center

An unofficial training location frequented by many high-level athletes. In recent years

excellent models have been developed in Kenya and Switzerland.

A Christian owned and/or operated recreational facility.

The Challenge

Would YOU consider stepping into a role such as this? Or would you, at least, consider looking

for someone in your country who would be willing to take advantage of an opportunity like this?

Those of us serving on this “Sport Center” track of the International Sport Coalition will help

facilitate the opening of the door to this training center. In addition we will provide training in

how to minister in such an environment.

Your Role

Although each country and each sport center may operate slightly differently, we would envision

that your role would have the following basic elements:

You would be accepted by the organization as a “spiritual counselor” or “chaplain”.

You would spend time just getting to know as many of the athletes and coaches as possible.

Eventually you would have a weekly (daily?) Bible study for athletes and coaches.

You would be a servant to the sport world - helping new athletes get to know the city and feel

comfortable in their new environment. Helping with transportation needs, or family needs.


You would also be available to serve (and minister to) every international team that comes

for extended periods of training.

Contact information

Scott Joy - [email protected]

4. Coaches and Teachers

Mission Statement

To build a network of trainers to provide training and mentoring to disciple, support and

encourage coaches and teachers, in every city and every country.

Vision Statement

To see coaches/teachers living as followers of Jesus Christ and being the living Gospel to people

in and around their sports context (e.g. athletes, students, families, sport clubs, communities).

Who we serve

We serve Christian coaches/teachers to develop and enhance their coaching skills. We focus on

holistic training with a special focus on encouraging coaches in their own faith journeys as well as

how to be a Kingdom coach. In the long term we want reach out to non-Christian

coaches/teachers. We believe that each coach/teacher is of value!

Strategy

Short-term goals:

Research and examine existing educational programs of coaches around the world and to find

those that align with our mission statement. This includes: life skill coaching, value integrated

training, development of the coach as a disciple maker, empowering the coach as a follower

of Jesus Christ.

Recruit and build up a global database of coaches with a Kingdom mindset.

Research of “in country representatives” for coaches. We are looking for a local (city or

country) contact person who has information/access on coaches/teachers in their

city/country.

Long-term goals:

Set up of a database of up to ten coaching programs, which focus on coaching philosophy,

behaviors, player support and spiritual needs, not simply tactical and technical aspects of

coaching.

Connect coaches with existing coaching programs and TOTs

Connect coaches and chaplains.

Through our work the following things should be achieved:

To encourage and support each coach and sports teacher to grow towards and in a personal

walk with Jesus Christ

To help coaches and teachers live out their faith in their sport context

mailto:[email protected]


To help him/her to understand his/her impact in the lives of athletes, parents, officials…

To encourage/model in building/growing relationships with Non Christians coaches.


Established trainings for coaches (religion & non-religion based) (e.g. trainings offered by

FCA(www.fcacoachesacademy.com), Coaching for Life Manual (www.ubabalo.com) ,

TREC training by Ambassadors in Football www.ambassadorsfootball.org)

ISC ISLTs schedules from different regions, applied for coaches/teachers.

Resources to be made available

A prototype of training resources for coaches as a result of research on existing educational

programs of coaches on a world-wide scale (see on short term goals)

The website of the Coaches/Teachers track: www.coachesinsport.com

Regionally small groups for coaches-cities/countries networks for coaches/teachers according

with the database we want to establish worldwide.

Useful Weblinks

www.fcacoachesacademy.com

www.ubabalo.com

www.r12coach.com

5. Sports Camps

Mission Statement

Definition: ‘A Sports Camp can be a residential or non-residential period of time with high quality

sports coaching and competition aimed at development participation or performance players

with opportunities to teach the good news of Jesus and grow disciples.

Vision Statement

To see Sports Camps impact young sports people with the good news of Jesus and make

disciples in every country and every city.

Who we serve

We seek to serve and equip potential Sports Camps Directors who have the desire to

deliver a Sports Camp in their community and context.

Strategy

The work can be broken down into two areas:

1. Resources:

a) Sports Camp Manual ‘How to guide’

b) Sports Camp Directors Workbook

c) Online Library of Appendices including ‘Best Practice’ examples and past models .

http://www.fcacoachesacademy.com/

http://www.ubabalo.com/

http://www.ambassadorsfootball.org/


2. Training: In order to pursue the vision of multiplication the training of leaders and Sports Camp Directors is crucial. We want to create a number of training modules and opportunities that suit the needs and wants of the global leader

Identified 5 Key platforms of Training

1. Provide some basic online talking heads ‘How to guides’ of pre-camp, during camp and post camp considerations. These video downloads take the leader through the simple ABC of the manual.

2. Produce a four x1 hour of face to face training package that can be rolled out at ISLT schools and other training forums around the world

3. Provide opportunities for key leaders to receive onsite experience and training through an invitation to attend identified established Sports Camps around the world

4. Establish a Training of Trainers team to travel around the world and deliver to train leaders directing Sports Camps in their country and contexts. This would ideally be in follow up to point 3.

Establish a mentoring partnership between experienced leader and potential future Sports Camp

director with regular communication.


a) Sports Camp Manual ‘How to guide’

b) Sports Camp Directors Workbook


a) Version of the Sports Camp Manual ‘How to guide’ for a closed country context

b) Translation of the current resources into different languages

c) Establish a platform to load - Online Library of Appendices including ‘Best Practice’ examples

and past models.

d) Online Training Talking heads video downloads

e) 4x1 hour training curriculum

Who can I contact

Facilitator for Planning Team:

Ian Lancaster - [email protected]

6. Clubs and Teams

Vision

Christ followers in every club and every team in every country to reflect God’s glory and grow

disciples in the world of sport.


Mission

Equip, empower and train people of sport to influence others on their team or club and in

their community for Christ.

Help the local church to see clubs and teams in their community as a mission field.

Club

Organized system of teams that can include recreational, developmental, amateur and high level

competitive teams. The organization must be registered with the sports association or governing

body in their country. They have leaders, by-laws, constitution, training programs, contracts, etc.

Clubs can include different sports (individual sports and team sports), various levels of skill and

an organizational structure.

Team

Team is a group of players or athletes who want to play the same sport, training to compete.

They can be part of a church, university, school, company or community. The goal is to improve

their skills through training and competition. This can include individual sports (tennis, golf, etc)

and team sports.

Why Clubs and Teams:

Popularity of sports around the world – millions of young people and adults play sport in clubs

and teams

Opportunity to impact people of sport for Christ

Help people of sport deal with pressures

Train Christian sports people to live their faith on their club or team

Encouragement, mentoring, coaching, discipleship

What we do:

Identify and modify existing training modules

Design new training modules

Cast vision for churches to see the clubs and teams in their community as a mission field

Identify existing mentoring networks and connect them to clubs and teams

Develop and train new mentors and chaplains

Encourage churches to pray for their local teams and clubs

Serve the clubs and teams (team building, experiential learning, etc.)

Two key approaches

Minister to people of sport on clubs and teams

Encourage churches to minister to people of sport on clubs and teams in their community

Outcomes

Christian sports people glorify God as they worship God in sport

Minimum of 2 Christians in each team

Churches in every region of the world begin to see clubs and teams as a mission field

Church support sport person (bible studies, chapels, mentoring, etc.)

Resources (to be developed):

Envisioning DVD for churches about the need to minister to teams and clubs

Training manual for those who will minister to sports people

Training for athletes who want to impact their team or club for Christ


For more information, please contact:

(insert contact information for Big Region Facilitators)

Contact person for Clubs and Teams: Andre Virtue

[email protected]

7. Academies

Mission Statement

To facilitate and support Christian based sports academies functioning at different levels, sports

and countries so as to holistically develop and disciple dedicated young players under the age of

21 to fulfill their God given potential both on and off the sports field.

Vision Statement

To see sports academies in every country and city supported by a global network to produce

dedicated players who are disciples of Jesus Christ and agents of transformation in their sport

and community.

Who we serve

The sports academy track serves the people who are working intensively with dedicated sports

minded children and young people including sports coaches, managers, administrators as well as

the players themselves who are under the age of 21.

Strategy

The plan for success will be based around 3 strategic anchors for each academy:

1. Specialisation in one sport that is appropriate for its locality and develop expertise in that

sport so as to both meet local needs but also contribute to the global network

2. Being a community of faith with clear evidence that Jesus Christ is the foundation,

message and the reason for the academy

3. Unlocking the potential in each child/youth attending both on and off the sports field

through a holistic approach to create hope of a better future.

By November 2014 to complete research of existing academy models, resource storage areas,

criteria for membership of the global network, discovery of best practice and best people to

add value to a global sports academy network.

By November 2015 to launch the Sports Academy global network and complete training

targets for manuals and delivery of materials.

By November 2016 to support the establishment of regional training bases globally and

facilitate the launch of an international prototype sports academy.

By end of 2020 to have facilitated the establishment of internationally renowned regional

sports academies and support academies established in 170 countries.




Any current resources are contained within the 28 examples of academies that have been

discovered globally in 2013. Through these academies information can be found on support,

connections, communication, development, access, facilitation, recruitment, placements,

opportunities, events, best practice and training. Please contact Jon Hamilton on

[email protected] for further details.


The aim is to more fully research existing academies and create a storage area so as to start to

share resources and develop learning. Therefore in this interim research period training will very

much be linked to these existing academies and making contact with them to see, experience

and learn from them in how their academy is run.

Useful Weblinks

Examples of academies include:

ASD CapeTown http://www.africasoccerdevelopments.com/

Ambassadors Football http://ambassadorsfootball.org/

Who can I contact

If you wish to know more about sports academies and the potential global network please

contact David Oakley on [email protected]

8. All Abilities Sports

Mission Statement

To champion a ministry to, through and around All Ability Sport in reaching out, sharing the

Gospel and serving with the love of Christ the disabled communities in every country and city of

the world.

Vision

To champion All Ability sports ministry by:

Awakening the local church pertaining to the needs and Father`s heart concerning people

with disabilities, to develop their faith and become involved with the local church;

Training and equipping church leaders in reaching out, ministering to and disciplining people

with disabilities in their community in and through sport;

Reaching and serving people with disabilities in and through sport through the many channels

and strategies of the ISC.

Who we Serve

The local church and the leaders thereof;

People with disabilities in all communities worldwide in and through sport;

Elite sportspeople with disabilities;

Participants in sport for people with disabilities on all levels;


Coaches, team managers, trainers, teachers and other role-players on administrative level

within the ambit of sport for people with disabilities.

Strategy

Identifying and building on what has already been accomplished through the movement and

existing ministries;

Seeking the expertise, resources & partnership of those working with people with disabilities

in the community;

To understand, enhance through dialogue and disseminate a Biblical theology of disability and

fundamentals of disability training together with those who are acquainted with it, teaching

and practising it (Joni and Friends, BMS World Mission etc);

Liaise with regional and national sporting bodies that are organizing sporting events for

athletes with disabilities and enquire on need for involvement;

Revisit existing outreach manuals to ascertain where there is a need to include sport for

disabled ;

Liaise with institutions/schools for people with disabilities (programmes, coaching,

rehabilitation);

Arrange for sport and recreation days at local church;

Produce a template (suggested order and content) for a Church service entitled: “ A Christian

Celebration of All-Ability Sport”, for giving to churches to use strategically/ periodically and

thus aid in the awareness-raising process;

Helping meet the spiritual needs of athletes with disabilities in and through sport; e.g.

chaplaincy ( pastoral care/ devotional encouragement/ bible study /prayer with Christian

Para-sport athletes)

Serving athletes with disabilities in national teams to establish long-term relationships;

Developing new, relevant and specific modules and strategies to implement the vision,

thereby extending the Christ`s Kingdom in obedience to the Great Commission.;

Integrating the In Sport track with the whole sport movement – International All-Ability Sports

Coalition;

Partnering to be more effective in executing our vision;

All-Ability Ministry Training: In other words, an All-ability-sports world-focused missiology .

(The Kingdom of God is wider than just the able-bodied and the able-minded. All-ability sports

ministry rather than one-dimensional able-bodied sports ministry exclusively or mainly.) ;

Prioritizing serving at as many Para-sport major events (MSEs) as possible (at least at as many

as at able-bodied MSEs );

Training and empowering elite sportspeople with disabilities to be involved in our vision since

they can more easily identify and associate with people with disabilities in order to reach out

and build relationships (seeking “men /women of peace “ to disciple).

Resources and Weblinks

Resources on the theme of disability advocacy/disability sport/theology of disability/disability

ministry training as well as Major Sport Events:

www.bmsworldmission.org

www.joniandfriends.org

www.bethesdainstitute.org

www.disabled-world.com/sports/

www.biblesociety.org

www.max7.org/search.aspx?s=disability&creatinguser=1


www.kidsgames.com/en/resourcecollection..aspx?id=18

Who to Contact

Niel Louw: [email protected] or [email protected]

9. Proclamation –

Sending and Receiving Teams

Definition

Proclamation through sport begins with obedience to the great commission by sharing the

Gospel of Jesus Christ, making disciples, that will grow and strengthen the local church

5 Principles about Proclamation:

1. Compassion for the lost

2. Obedience to the great commission

3. Meet specific needs to preach the Gospel and make disciples

4. Culturally sensitive

5. Maximizing opportunities with your talents

Sending & Receiving Statement

The purpose of sending and receiving is to motivate and equip the body of Christ, and make

disciples, to grow the local church.

Principles of Sending and Receiving

WHY SEND?

Mandate – We are called to be His ambassadors.

Biblical Foundation - 2 Corinthians 5:20,Exodus 3:10, Acts 13, Ezekiel 2:3, 2 Chronicles 2:13,

Exodus 23:20, Jeremiah 42:6, Matthew 10:16,John 20:21

THINGS TO CONSIDER

Specific mission – Serving, Partnership, Modeling - What is long-term strategy?

Logistics Preparation – Preparations of Senders and Receivers

Pre-departure Setup- Finances, Ministry Equipment, Prayer Support, Orientation

Post short-term – Team Evaluations, Debrief, Challenge for future, Follow-up on Team

Members

WHY RECEIVE?

Biblical Foundation – Eph. 3:6, 1 Thes. 2:13, 1Thes. 3:2, Rom. 16:1-2, Eph. 6:21, Phil. 17 & 22,

1Cor. 10-12, Col. 4:10

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+3:10&version=NIV

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+2:13&version=NASB

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+23:20&version=NIV

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+42:6&version=NIV

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10:16&version=NIV

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+20:21&version=NIV


THINGS TO CONSIDER

1. Pre-team setup

Clear Communication, Clear Vision/Strategy/Location/Activities, Recruit & Train Volunteers,

Establish Budget, Schedule, Arrange Housing/Food/Transportation, acquire Ministry

Materials, Secure Orientation Materials for arriving team

2. In Country Setup

Pick-up & Welcome, Orientation, Meet Leaders & Volunteers, Assignments for Team &

Volunteers, Evaluation & Celebration, Prayer & Send Team Off

3. Post Setup

Follow-up With new Believers/Seekers/Bible study groups, On-going Relationship w/

Partnering Members, Evaluate Accomplishment & Move Forward

10. Chaplaincy

Mission Statement

Sports Chaplains represent the Lord Jesus’ presence with and compassion for sports people.

Their ministry combines both the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.

Vision Statement

Our vision for sports chaplaincy is to see pastoral care provided wherever sports are played in

every country and every city of the world.

Who we serve

Sports Chaplains seek to serve all sports people, providing pastoral and spiritual care wherever

sports are played to people of all faiths and to people of no faith.

Strategy

We see Sports Chaplains as serving in these areas of sport:

Teams (of every sport, both genders, and at every level of competition)

Major Sporting Events (of every sport, local, national, regional, and global in scope)

Individual Mentoring (one to one relationships with sportspeople)

Touring Sports (e.g. motor racing, golf, tennis, surfing, etc…)

We seek to develop Sports Chaplaincy via these equipping channels:

Training (On line, in print, in person, in seminars, etc…)

Sports Chaplaincy Entities (various sports ministries who train sports chaplains in their spheres

of influence)

A Sports Chaplain is not essentially:

A Sports Fan

A Sports Psychologist


A Sports Coach

A Counselor


Training materials available from agencies which have developed Sports Chaplaincy in their

regions:

Sport Chaplaincy (Australia/New Zealand/UK/ Caribbean)

Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Athletes in Action


A Global approach to Sports Chaplaincy training is in the process of being developed.

Useful Weblinks

http://servingthepeopleofsport.net

http://www.sportschaplaincy.com.au

http://www.sportschaplaincy.org.uk

http://nz.sportschaplaincy.com

http://www.fcachaplains.org/

http://www.sportschaplains.org/

http://sportchaplainsportmentor.blogspot.com/

Who can I contact

Roger D. Lipe – [email protected]

Ross Georgiou – [email protected]

Richard Gamble – [email protected]

Bernd Breitmaier - [email protected]

11. Action Sports

What how and who?

Vision

To make disciples amongst a unique action sports tribes who don't conform to society, authority

and the status quo: in and through the sports

to make disciples of Jesus in and through all action sports cultures.

Definition: Action Sports

- what is it and what it's not? (values above?).

List of different types of action sports:

slacklining back country, urban boarding


skydiving

BASE jumping

wingsuit flying

paragliding

paramotoring

hang gliding

windsurfing

kitesurfing

surfing

skimboarding

diving

wakeboarding

white water kayaking

snowboarding - freestyle, extreme lines,

skiing - freestyle, extreme lines, back country, urban skiing

snow kiting.

mt. biking - trail, downhill

mt. boarding

kiteboarding

dune boarding

ice/downhill skating

rock climbing, bouldering

Ice climbing

BMX

skateboarding, long boarding

parkour

and more.

What are our objectives?

1. to build partnerships

2. to share resources

3. to multiply action sports ministries globally

4. to develop understanding

5. to develop training

What are the values/culture?

Fear/risk

Passion- joy to life - CS SA John 10:10 I came to give life and to the full (MAX)!

creativity - carving lines

community/tribe

Spiritually open - seeking, looking

non-conformists

participatory

noncompetitive but encouraging

Who are the target?

Action Sports enthusiasts are people with:

A passion for living and experience.

A passion for pushing the limits.

their own species. We should not try to domesticate them.

Action sports enthusiasts are very community oriented. It's a lifestyle. We want to disciple

them into Christ's tribe but not out of their own

Four most important longings of the youngest generation:

1. to be recognised as an individual. yet want to belong to a certain group.

2. longing for unconditional love. in our society people have to earn love by performance.

3. To belong somewhere. to know where is home. people are homeless/fatherless.

4. longing for orientation. boundaries. no compass in life.


extreme sports gives individual recognition, yet belongs to a group. It provides

orientation/boundaries/direction. But as Christians, where is our foundation/reference point?

(Archimedes, "gives me a fixed point and I will move the world"). Christ is our fixed point.

God has created all these (Mega Trend) longings to lead people to him. Christ answers all of

these.

Through/InSport handbook - min 5 max 8 pages max by 2015. A simple understanding to multiply

Action Sports ministries.

By 2015 we want - 10 or 15 adventure sports and groups of adventure sports that are similar and

have representatives for each group from each continent.

12. Church Services

Description

The program is designed to give suggestions, outlines, resources and information for sports-

theme service that can be adapted to a local church context. Create Church “sports-theme”

service during the Sundays of major events. Learn how to include prayer, sports-based sermons,

create a sports theme environment celebrating the diversity of Christian faith. Suggestions

should be adapted to own church environment, creative way to achieve final goal, namely

celebrate the diversity in the Christian faith when planning a Major Event.

Objectives

Church being the body of Christ, it must show the world God’s heart to mankind, recognizing that

the world is diverse with different cultures, creeds, traditions, skin colors, values and practices.

Church must use mediums of communications that transcend religious, cultural, and

geographical barriers to penetrate all these barriers with the Message of love and forgiveness

which God through Jesus has communicated to the world.

Target Audience

Church members having a better appreciate for sports ministry and opportunity for members to

invite friend and guests.

How to Organize/Implement

Sport is a universal language. Church must take this opportunity to show, through sport” the

relevance of Christ to as many people as possible. It must be sensitive to others’ values and

beliefs and promote common values rather than differences following the example of Jesus

communication to non-believers as followed the apostle Paul. Practical ways suggestions:

Create the basic outline for the sermon using Scriptures.

Have available resource table in the foyer of the church with tracts, books or booklets of the

faith of the athletes.

Give members appropriate sport ministry resources to share with others.

Church hosts big screen parties for the opening r closing ceremonies or any other of the

evenings or weekend days.

Invite people on different nights providing food or snacks.


Get creative people together to brainstorm new and inventive ways of visually making the

service enjoyable and relax.

Practical ways to organize the event i.e. printed invitations, arrangements for local shops,

schools, sports clubs, display posters, usage of video, power point, prayer, prepare resource

packs, decoration of the venue e.g. Sport gear, flags, sport posters and other displays with

appropriate Moto.

Organization of drama, sketch on a sporting theme.

Sermon from Scripture emphasizing values relating to sports and competition.

Prayer focus.

Equipment/Resources Needed

People passionate about sports. These are those with special interests and gifts in particular

areas of the overall plan for the Church.

Extras Information

Churches can use the 5 Sunday’s worship services during the World Cup to run programs

Creativity models

1. Some churches in their sports Sunday's designed false front doors to resemble the

entrance to famous stadiums in their country or other countries and decorated other

parts of the church with sports gear.

2. Many Sports Sunday Services had youth or drama groups perform a short sketch on

sports themes.

3. Other churches sports Sunday's provided food that was from the culture of one of the

teams in those days matches.

4. In other churches sports Sunday's the pastor wore the jersey of their favorite team -

other churches all the elders or deacons wore different jerseys of their favorite national

teams or favorite World Cup team - other churches asked everyone attending to wear

the colors of their national team if they were one of the final 32 - others asked everyone

to wear the colors of one of the teams playing that day - other churches asked everyone

to wear socks that were the color of their favorite team etc.

5. Churches across the world included in their sports services prayer for the players and

officials.

6. Printing of a sports player’s testimony for the guests and members. Can be local, national

players and/or international players.

7. Opportunity to use the sports Sunday's to introduce the idea of ongoing sports ministry

for the church.

8. Many sports Sunday Services included a sports player in the church or a committed

sports player on a local team sharing their testimony.

9. Many sports Sunday Services included recruiting volunteers to serve KidsGames and

TeenGames. When the KidsGames and TeenGames had been completed prior to the

World Cup Sunday's the youth in the KG and TG were acknowledged and parents of the

youth were treated as special guests.

10. Some sports Sunday Services included a time to honor sports coaches and officials from

the neighborhood or city.


11. Normally the sports Sunday Churches printed invitation cards and arrange for these to be

handed out in local shops, schools, business and sports clubs, display posters and some

even placed an ad in the local newspaper.

12. Each sports Sunday the pastors would often present a sports-based sermon or read

Scriptures with a sports theme.

13. Public Sports Screens

Description

Watching sport on TV is great fun but there

is nothing quite like getting together to

watch a major event in a community

setting. Public sports screens may

incorporate a festival atmosphere and help

the church to move to the centre of the

community and provide an opportunity for

Christians to live and share their faith.

These events can be done on either small

scale (in your local church or community

center) or a large scale (in an outdoor

community venue). If you are incorporating

a community type festival with the public

sports screens, try to offer everything for free and make everything fun! Offer popular activities

such as face painting, balloon sculpturing, and jumping castles.

Objectives

Build bridges between the community and the church through creating a free, family-friendly

atmosphere

Through building the “open crowd” we are able to create opportunities for sharing the love of

Christ

Develop partnerships between local churches and ministries

Transforming the community through the Church running events that bring the community

together.

Target Audience

The target demographics for this event are all families in the community in which the event is to

take place. We want to have different events around the public sports screens to engage the

population that attends the event. This will allow more people to attend each year, if you make it

an annual event.

This is a very simple but yet great way to engage the community. Kids and families find this event

to be a lot of fun as they watch and visit with other families and friends. This also allows the

churches in the community to be known for doing community based events. This event could

allow for great follow up by the hosting parties, because you can have games and other prizes for

attending.



Develop partnerships with churches and groups to help participate, you will want to

communicate this event to all the churches and ministry teams in your area. Have a clear mission,

vision, and passion for the event, as you plan.

1. Share the vision and bring together a core group from various Churches who are willing

to make the event happen. You may also like to gather a group of people that are willing

to meet and pray for the event.

2. Decide on the nature of the event. Issues include; venue, size, legalities, permissions,

activities (food and festival choices – face painting etc), agreed approach to evangelism,

wet weather alternatives, equipment needs and availability

3. Be clear on goals of the event, roles required and shared values. Where possible seek to

make the event free to all those who come.

4. Delegate responsibilities and accountabilities-see green level how to build a team for

suggested job descriptions

5. Develop a time line of strategic next steps.

6. On-going monitoring of event development

7. Training for all volunteers

8. Hold the event

9. Develop and implement ongoing community transformation strategy


Essentials: TV screen for simple public sports screen or projector and sufficient size screen for

larger crowds; sound system, DVD of athlete’s testimonies, permit for outdoor gathering of

people if needed

Optional: Food vendors, security, lighting, seating, activities for children like, face painting,

clowns, balloon makers, games, radio personality and maybe a live show, transportation,

hospitality persons, finances or fundraising, sponsorships, outreach counselors, free health

checkups, coloring competition, etc

Extras

If you are doing a community festival style public screen, try to involve other community groups,

during break of game play an athlete’s testimony or someone share a testimony, have resources

to give away after the event is complete, plan for ways to gather information from those that are

attending so follow up can take place.


14. Resource Distribution

Description

It’s a strategy that encompass the production and distribution of

print, audio and video resources that are relevant and contextualized

for the needs of the target audiences of those either attending a

Major Sporting Event or taking part in a non-host partnership

initiative surrounding a MSE (MTG, TUG, The Way Forward, The

Winning Partnership). This can also be utilized during regional,

country, city, and village events.

There are multiple evangelistic tools in the ISC network from a variety

of resource providers. These tools help communicate and convey the

Gospel message by putting the testimonies of athletes into the hands

of fans in a variety of formats; print, audio, video.

Objectives

To bring people closer to a relationship with God by placing resources of athletes stories in their

hands.

Target Audience:

To reach out sports fans, athletes, coaches, officials, families and/or visitors and locals in your

city.


You can hand out print literature (pocket guide, player card, Bibles, magazines, etc.), video

resources (DVD’s) and audio resources (audio Bibles, CD’s), to fans who are attending MSE’s,

Festivals, Public sports screen showings, Fan Zones, on the streets, in stadiums, etc.

QR codes (Quick Response Codes) are allowing the distribution of print literature to link to video

and audio resources on the internet, and/or website promotion.

Volunteers from churches, Para-church organizations, Individuals, coaches, players, chaplains,

officials, etc.


Pocket guides, player cards, Bibles, magazines.

Video resources (DVD’s)

Audio resources (audio Bibles, CD’s)


15. Sports Camps (MSE)

Description

Sports camps have been an integral strategy implemented by churches and agencies for more

than 40 years. The strategy isn't new and doesn't need a lot of explanation. What makes a Sports

Camp more impactful is when it is held prior to, during or following the major sporting events.

Our opportunity is to maximize the interest in sports training because of the worldwide television

coverage.

Objectives

A Sports Camp can be either a residential or non-

residential period of time with sports coaching and

competition, and opportunities to teach about the

good news of Jesus.

Provide quality soccer skill development,

competition and spiritual nurture

Introduce churches to ongoing sports-related

ministry development

It's about soccer coaching- plus much more!

Target Audience

There are three distinct criteria when thinking about who to target the Sports Camp at:

Standard of the player - this dictates the level of coaching and tempo of competition. There

are three universal standards – 1- recreational/development 2-participation 3-

performance/elite

Background of belief - are the young people Christians, non-Christians or both together? This

dictates the Christian content.

Age of the young people: For coaching drills and serious competition it is important to

monitor the age range.


1. Identify a coach or coaches who are qualified to teach the sports skills

2. What age group are you best prepared to provide a sports camp

3. What number of participants can you accommodate in the sports camp

4. Is it best to provide the camp where the participants live or use an overnight facility

5. How many volunteers are needed to provide a quality camp

6. Who will provide high quality devotionals and or Bible teaching for the campers

7. Is this an opportunity to begin annual sports camps

8. What is your plan for follow up

9. Is the sports camp an opportunity to introduce ongoing Ubabalo Whole Life Skills


Camp facility, promotional materials, medical kit, sports equipment relevant to the sport ie. Core

football equipment, organisation aids: ground markers, coloured bibs, whistles, etc


Extras

In most countries a sports camp happens in the community where kids, youth or young adults

live. In some locations sports camps happen each Saturday for a number of weeks to fit school or

work schedules. In other locations sports camps happen during the school break week or weeks

and happen each morning or afternoon in the community. In some locations sports Camps have

overnight facilities where the participants stay for a number of days of training.

It is useful to get feedback from leaders and young people about the Sports Camp. This can then

be used for planning in the future. It is also crucial after the Sports Camp has finished that young

people are followed up and cared for away from the Sports Camp.

Encourage leaders to continue to communicate with the young people in their team. This means

that the communication is visible and parents can also be part of the communication process.

(refer also to CFL resources)

16. Sports Festivals

A sports festival is a celebration of sport and life and an opportunity to reach people in the community and bring them closer to Jesus. Festivals have the capacity to impact specific people groups or entire age ranges together.

Why a Sports Festival is for you: ‘A golf analogy’

1. Your church may have a desire to begin community engagement and a Sports Festival can enable you to play your ‘first shot’ and make a relevant launch into your community.

2. Your church may have taken some first steps to engage with your community, but you need something to ‘go deeper.’ A Sports Festival could be the ‘next shot’ that enables you to ‘get closer.’

3. Your church may be very active within the community but needs something to genuinely point people towards Christ and link them into church. A Sports Festival could be ‘the shot’that achieves such an aim

It gives an effective opportunity to invite people to play and enjoy life together. It brings communities together and it provides a means to make a strong first contact with a wide age range of people in your community … and Sports Festivals work!


There are Festivals that announce the Gospel during the event and other more community based Sports Festivals that demonstrate the Good News. Within the Sports Festival manual you will find outlined 6 models that have been used successfully around the world. By knowing your community and its resources and by praying and building a committed team, you will be able to find a festival model that best suits your needs.

Anyone with a heart to reach their community.

Some Sports Festivals target those who love anything to do with sport while others make it fun for all the family.

SportsFestivals manual

Training on Community Sports Festivals.

www.opencrowdfestivals.org/sportsfestivals

Marty - [email protected]

17. Community Cup*

PLEASE NOTE: Each Community Cup has its own logo and name. Each city creates it own new name.

This intentional act is to keep our brothers and sisters safe in countries where persecution exists.

See www.cupofnations.com for pictures etc.

SIMPLE DESCRIPTION

The Community Cup is a sports tournament and festival connecting people to make disciples that make disciples.

It is Catalytic. By that we mean:

The sports event is not an end in itself but fuels a movement that carries on after the event.

The ministry movement could be one of the following: o Disciple Making Movement (DMM) o Church Planting o Incarnate Evangelism



WHY WOULD SOMEONE

IMPLEMENT THIS STRATEGY?

Through the bridge of sport there is the opportunity to:

Serve the needs in your community

Understand your community

Birth new community based sports leadership teams

Ultimately this opens the doors for ministry like DMM but not exclusive to DMM.

PRACTICAL DESCRIPTION OF

HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

Two models currently exsist:

Model A is designed for cities with an international/ethnic diverse population.

Model B is designed for cities with different community groups united by something in common (schools, business, banks, etc.).

By determining your mini-communities and identifying their felt need you can design your Community Cup. Engage an Organizing Committee to pray, plan and execute your tournament and follow-through ministry strategies. You need a director of the tournament, of volunteers, of team recruitment and of follow-through.

Remember the event should take up 20% of the team’s resources (ex. Time and Money) and the follow-through should utilize 80% of the team’s time and money. Without the follow-through you only have an event. With excellent DMM follow-through you have a movement.

IMPLEMENTERS OF THIS

STRATEGY Any team passionate about sport and ministry.

TARGET OF THIS STRATEGY

Two models currently exsist:

Model A is designed for cities with an international/ethnic diverse population.

Model B is designed for cities with different community groups united by something in common (Universities, schools etc.)

MAJOR RESOURCES

NEEDED TO DO IT

EVENT:

ESSENTIALS: Tournament facility, promotional fliers and sport essentials (ex. Soccer ball, soccer goals etc.)

OPTIONAL: Trophies, website, tournament organizer (ex. Excel), volunteers, and festival essentials (food, music, etc.)

FOLLOW THROUGH:

DMM Team

WHERE TO FIND RESOURCES

www.max7sports.com

CONTACT EMAIL Dan Davis – [email protected]

http://www.max7sports.com/



18. KidsGames

KidsGames is a sports and learning program for 6-14 year olds where companies, churches, schools, community groups, sports organizations and local government can all work together to serve children. KidsGames is run on a local basis across a city, village or region involving hundreds up to many thousands of children.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE

IMPLEMENT THIS

STRATEGY?

KidsGames is primarily implemented as a way to get people started in sports ministry, to build an ongoing partnering initiative and to connect with children and families in a community. Because it is generally only done once a year or every two years, it is a great tool to get groups working together, often for the first time.

PRACTICAL DESCRIPTION

OF HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

KidsGames is an easy to run Sports and Games program. All you need are some teenage and adult leaders and some children. It can be done with no resources or with lots. All the written resources are free to download and use. Make sure you plan ahead and start reading the main resources listed below and you will find that KidsGames can make a big difference to your children.

The most common models of KidsGames have been 10-week programs meeting once a week, 5-week programs meeting twice a week or 5 day holiday programs meeting each day. Each organizing committee is free to adapt the model to their situation, while being expected to stay true to the values, principles and intention of KG. See the diagram below to get an overview of the program. It is very flexible and can be adapted to your situation.

Some KidsGames start with a handful of children while others start with a much larger number. Start with what you are able and grow from there. The important part is to grow a partnership of many groups. This is a key principle of KG. As you build trust and partnerships - KidsGames will grow naturally.

MAJOR RESOURCES

NEEDED TO DO IT

KG Introduction Manual

KG Curriculum – many to choose from on the website

Sports and Games Manual

KG World Promo video


Go to www.kidsgames.com. Register and login in (all free). Once you have logged in, go to the Downloads menu and then choose Manuals.

CONTACT EMAIL

For more details contact [email protected] or go to www.kidsgames.com

http://www.kidsgames.com/




19. FamilyGames

SIMPLE DESCRIPTION

FamilyGames is a worldwide movement serving the family in the areas of values, faith and communications through sports, games, the Bible, creativity and fun all integrated into an easy-to-run initiative. Families can be served through this strategy around the world, across a city, village, region or even neighborhood. Churches, schools, companies, community groups, sports and social organizations can easily and effectively run FamilyGames.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE


Everyone needs a family. In FamilyGames every people can feel that are part of a family and feel included in their own corporate family, with their close friends, or even extended to a church or community. Families can have fun, can play games or sports or have quality time. Everyone feels included in the first Godly institution, the family.


HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

FamilyGames in one part of the world will be different from FamilyGames in another part of the world. In fact, FamilyGames will be different when more than one FamilyGames occurs in the same city. The activities you organize will depend on your culture, your sporting interests, as well as the facilities and resources available.

People don´t need to make part of a family to participate. If someone is alone can still integrate in the activities (perhaps form their own family for the duration of FamilyGames) and enjoy the value of the family too.

FamilyGames uses the experiential learning as a tool to speak about values and Bible and can use some of these ideas: March In Parade, Torch Lighting, Athletes’ Pledge, Opening & Closing Ceremony of dance, drama, music, press corps, World Water Bucket Championship, one or more compassion projects, awards ceremony, putting out the Torch and declaring the FG closed.

The program can be adapted to different to how many hours or days are able and news ideas are always welcome to add into this strategy to improve the way of reaching families.

IMPLEMENTERS OF THIS STRATEGY

A willing partnership of adult Workers/Ministers and some volunteers with ages from 18 to 100 (or more) who can love families and want to disciple and serve them.

MAJOR RESOURCES

NEEDED TO DO IT

1. Refreshed Organizing Manual

2. A New 5 lessons Curriculum

3. Follow-up resources for families (e.g. Parental Education)

4. A promotional video and power point


www.thefamilygames.com

CONTACT EMAIL [email protected]

http://www.thefamilygames.com/



20. TeenGames

TeenGames is a sports and learning program for 12-18 year olds where companies, churches, schools, community groups, sports organizations and local government can all work together to serve Teenagers. TeenGames is run on a local basis across a city, village or region involving hundreds up to many thousands of teenagers. It’s a values based and sports initiated program so that it can speak to many Teens whether in open communities, or communities where Christians may not be permitted to speak openly about Jesus, but still want to serve teens.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE


TeenGames is suitable as a sports ministry for first contact with Christians. TeenGames is a way for Christian and non-Christian teens to participate in sports ministry event together. It is also a way to recruit people — whose ministry is Teen and Youth oriented — to sports ministry. The model helps to build an ongoing partnering initiatives; it helps to connect with youth and their families in a community. Because it is generally only done once a year or every two years, it is a great tool to get groups working together, often for the first time.


HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

TeenGames is a flexible model for running a Sports and Games program. TeenGames is most effective and has the greatest impact when run by a partnership team from a group of churches, organisation, etc. All you need are some teenage/youth and adult leaders and some teens to serve. It can be done with no resources or with lots. All the written resources are free to download and use.

Choose a model that best suits your community, common models of TeenGames have been 10-week programs meeting once a week, 5-week programs meeting twice a week or 5 day holiday programs meeting each day or a 2 week program meeting for 10 days over the 2 weeks. Each organizing committee is free to adapt the model to their situation, while being expected to stay true to the values, principles and intention of the strategy.


STRATEGY

A willing partnership of Youth Workers/Ministers who can draw a team of people who want to disciple and serve teens in the realm of sport.


Teenagers, youth between the ages of 12-18, but this needs to be flexible according to the needs of your teens and the programs available.

MAJOR RESOURCES

NEEDED TO DO IT

There are TeenGames logos, as well as an Introductory Manual, Organizing Manual as well as devotions, coaching, disability integration and a choice of values programs to run. There are videos to show to potential partners and photos of other TG around the world.


Go to www.theteengames.com or www.KidsGames.com register and click through to TeenGames to search and download all free TG resources.

CONTACT EMAIL [email protected]

http://www.theteengames.com/




21. EdgeGames

Edge Games is a values-based / pre-evangelistic / evangelistic unifying and leadership development strategy preparing young adults, 18 – 30 year olds, for life towards community transformation.

Edge Games is a gathering of single adults for a multi-day, weekend or a single day event which combines sports, creative arts, music, and media with character building, leadership training and community development.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE

IMPLEMENT THIS

STRATEGY?

The objective of EG is to prepare young adults for Life and for ‘survival’. E.g. it is the final stage of youth life before the next stage of adult responsibility. It is the first step into fulfilling their dreams, i.e. the point of launching, of flight/ exploration/ acceleration into young adulthood

PRACTICAL DESCRIPTION

OF HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

Edge Games is s a flexible, easy to run Sports and Games program. It is varied from being one day event to a multiday event. Edge Games can be prepared through 3 stages

preparation which include curriculum preparation, participant recruitment, sports activity preparation,& administrative preparations

implementation which include all sports & curriculum

follow up which can be in the form of a program, weakly meeting or one day gathering


STRATEGY

A willing partnership of adult Workers/Ministers who can draw a team of people who want to disciple and serve single adult in the realm of sport.


The single adults can be divided into two categories:

a) 18 to 21 years of age [campus students]

b) 22 to 30 years [working singles & young married couples] (age category can be extended)

MAJOR RESOURCES

NEEDED

1. Curriculum manual. 2. Sports& games manual 3. Media tools

WHERE TO FIND

RESOURCES

Go to www.theedgegames.net or www.kidsgames.com, register and click through to EdgeGames to search and download all free EG resources

CONTACT EMAIL

For more details contact [email protected]

http://www.theedgegames.net/




22. Coaching for Life

LOGO

NAME OF STRATEGY/MODEL

Coaching For Life (CFL)

PHOTOS OF THE STRATEGY

SIMPLE DESCRIPTION

CFL is a 16-session Ubabalo whole life coaching resource for soccer coaches to help young players discover ‘God the Father’ through sport, biblical values, and story-telling.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE


Ubabalo is a concept to utilise sport techniques/skills during sports coaching to transition to life skills, leadership and sound Biblical values. Ubabalo has been implemented in over 100 countries with thousands of coaches serving young players.


HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

Soccer coaches are trained in Whole Life Coaching principles and provided the CFL curriculum. The soccer coach uses sport as a microcosm of life to instil sound life values. Each sport skill is linked with a corresponding Biblical value which is taught as part of weekly sports coaching. The values operate as open doors to Bible-based discipleship.


Soccer / Football coach


Soccer players between 9-13 years old

MAJOR RESOURCES

NEEDED TO DO IT

CFL Trainer manual and powerpoint

CFL Coach manual (16 sessions)

CFL Player cards (16 cards)


www.ubabalo.com.

Select Coaching For Life in Ubabalo Whole Life Coaching Library

CONTACT EMAIL John Yip - [email protected],who will refer you to the relevant country coordinator

http://www.max7.org/resource.aspx?channel=ubabalo&creatinguser=1



23. Ubabalo Whole Life Coaching

Ubabalo is a whole life coaching and disciple-making resource for coaches to engage young sports people in values and worldview transformation.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE


Ubabalo is a concept to utilise sport techniques/skills during sports coaching to transition to life skills, leadership and sound Biblical values. As sport provides the best “language” to communicate with the young people, the training of sport coaches into Whole Life Coaches provides the most efficient transformative impact amongst young people.


HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

Sport coaches are trained in Whole Life Coaching principles and provided the Ubabalo curriculum. The sports coach uses sport as a microcosm of life to instil sound life values. Each sport skill is linked with a corresponding Biblical value which is taught as part of weekly sports training. The values operate as open doors to Bible-based discipleship.


STRATEGY Sports coach


Players in two age grouping: 5-11 years and 12-19 years old

MAJOR RESOURCES

NEEDED TO DO IT

Ubabalo Trainer resources - Level 1 training, Level 1 Discovery Groups (monthly mentoring), Level 2 training, Level 2 Discovery Groups (monthly mentoring)

Ubabalo Sports sessions for youth - 20 sports

Ubabalo Sports sessions for kids - invasion games, soccer

Ubabalo Videos and Ubabalo Audio

Mobile App: Max7 at iTunes store; Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.subsplash.thechurchapp.logosdor; iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/app/max7/id566634645?mt=8


www.ubabalo.com

CONTACT EMAIL John Yip - [email protected],who will refer you to the relevant country coordinator

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.subsplash.thechurchapp.logosdor

https://itunes.apple.com/app/max7/id566634645?mt=8




24. Ubabalo Kids

SIMPLE DESCRIPTION

Kids Ubabalo is a whole life coaching resource for sports coaches to help children grow in faith, and life through the application of Biblical principles. The Kids Ubabalo material uses the Games Centred Approach to develop both skills and games sense through small sided games.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE


Kids Ubabalo is a tool for coaches of young players to develop both sports and life skills based on sound Biblical values. It’s target audience is for the coaches of teams working with children under the age of 11. It provides coaching material based on the Games Centred approach and gives information on how to link both Life and Bible discussions.


HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

Ubabalo Kids is a whole life coaching series of sessions targeting primary aged children. It utilizes current “best practice” using the “Games Centred” approach. Sessions cover tactical concepts of sports (e.g. In invasion games 1 concept is maintaining possession), linked to a life skill and a Bible story/passage written as narratives. Using this approach, the sessions are designed to be re-visited over multiple training sessions, with the coach choosing the emphasis for each session based on what he wants to coach in any given training. Each session also includes an experiential learning activity to further reinforce the learning for the session.

It is written using the the “Interval Training” approach to coaching.

It has also been targeted to help an inexperienced coach to begin coaching sports. Rationale behind this is that if a parent takes their child along to register their child at a local club, and the club needs coaches, then this resource will help the average Mum or Dad (or teen) begin to coach from a whole life coaching perspective. While giving some technical information, it is not aimed at delivering a high level of technical information.


STRATEGY Sports Coaches


Sports Coach coaching players between 4 – 11 years of age (approx.). Coaches of children at the younger end may need to simplify some of the material.

MAJOR RESOURCES

NEEDED TO DO IT

Ubabalo Training Resources – Level 1: Why Ubabalo? And Role Play training sessions

Ubabalo Kids Training resources (3 sessions)

Kids Ubabalo Sports Sessions for kids


www.ubabalo.com

CONTACT EMAIL Sue Morris [email protected]




25. Youth Sports Leadership

Development

Youth Sports Leadership Development grew out of the success of Community, Youth, Children and Sport Strategic Programs. Millions of children around the world have been encouraged to lead as participants in KidsGames and other CYCAS programs and it is natural that they desire to lead when they grow older. From these youth will emerge the next generation community leader and in and through sport they have the unique opportunity to lead today in real and practical ways. Youth discovering faith, character, skills and mission through a growing understanding of the Bible; and sports leadership experiences as an outworking of their faith is the objective of Youth Sports Leadership Development.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE


It is estimated that 1/3 of the world’s population is under the age of 15. This represents one of the greatest under mobilized manpower in global evangelism. At no time in human history have youth between the ages of 13-23 have had more cultural influence and access to economic resources, unsupervised time and unrestricted information. The possibilities are endless and the opportunities are great. But the dangers are also real and devastating. This generation is being preyed upon and needs to be trained to be on the offense with faith.


HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

Youth today are looking for real responsibility and opportunities to lead with significance. YSLD is a process where you as a leader invite a small group of youth to join you in leading a mission project such as a KidsGames, community develop in an area of expressed need, Sports Camp or Sports League etc.. Equipped with YSLD curriculum you lead youth in scheduled discovery times of faith, character, skills and mission. The objective is to prepare them to implement the mission projects they develop throughout your time together. The training manual is the Bible. The training ground is the time between when you form as a team and the day you complete your mission projects throughout your time together. An end goal is to reach into the community in which they live to impact with the heart of Jesus and see how they can put into play the skills they have to share who they are as they develop in their faith, character and skill.


Implementing YSLD are Sports Coaches, Youth Pastors, Sports Ministry Leaders, Parents and anyone interested in investing in youth leadership development.


Recommended target audience is youth between 13-23 years old.

MAJOR RESOURCES

NEEDED TO DO IT

Youth Sports Leadership Development Level 1 Training 8-11 hrs.

Youth Sports Leadership Development Curriculum 10 Modules 38 Sessions.


Visit www.ysld.wikispaces.com to download resources or refer to the ISC Resource Disk

CONTACT EMAIL Dan Williams - [email protected], Grant Sheppard - [email protected], Cheri Shaver - [email protected]

http://www.ysld.wikispaces.com/





26. Max7 Kids

Max7Kids is a set of resources on Max7 website with active, sports and games based lessons. It includes lessons and videos to help disciple children aged 6 to 12. The lessons include BibleMAX, New Beginnings, KidsHubs and Living in the Kingdom. There are more than 200 lessons in all. Many lessons are in pack of 5 lessons and explore a theme. (eg Easter, Gospel, Sermon on the Mount)

Max7Kids also has training material in the CYCAS Global Training Package. A 7Ways training guide accompanies all the lessons as a library of ideas and a way to train leaders.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE


The person using this strategy would work with children aged 6 to 12 in a local church setting. They would be interested in using experiential and active learning techniques to help connect children and leaders to the truths of the Bible. These are great follow through tools after a KidsGames.


HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

BibleMAX is a flexible and creative program. A typical BibleMAX lesson involves a group of about 20 to 200 children in one area with a team of leaders. The lesson follows simple steps including playing experiential games, communicating the Bible creatively, small group discussion and practical application of the message. A lesson can go for 60mins or be stretched to 3 hours. Team of leaders can be any size with a range of expertise, depending on the size of the group.


Sunday School Teacher, Sports coach who disciples children or youth group leader.


Children of any culture aged between 6-12 years old.

MAJOR RESOURCES

NEEDED TO DO IT

Lessons: BibleMAX 7 Ways, New Beginnings, Living in the Kingdom and KidsHubs.

Videos: many including- Parable of Lost sheep, Parable of Sower, Parable of Talents, Easter Story, Christmas stories, The Good Samaritan….


Website: www.max7.org

Mobile App: Max7 at iTunes store

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.subsplash.thechurchapp.logosdor

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/app/max7/id566634645?mt=8

Disc: ‘2 fish 5 bread’ disc

CONTACT EMAIL [email protected] or [email protected]

http://www.max7.org/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.subsplash.thechurchapp.logosdor

https://itunes.apple.com/app/max7/id566634645?mt=8



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Going Further

Strategies not included in the 25 ways:

Kids Leadership

KidsHubs

Max7 website

ReadySetGo.ec website

MSE resources – Sports Spectrum etc.

Heart videos website

What else needs to be said on:

Evaluation

Getting connected with others (if someone picks up this

book cold)

Websites

Creating and sharing ideas

Next steps

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Notes for Orlando Discussions

Note from Si

Hi friends, sorry that I cannot be there to discuss this in person. I’m serving the process by helping to

bring this book together. Many people are writing the material. It’s been an excellent process

towards helping shape what Ready Set Go can do to help us refine the message and the movement

towards being able to multiply into every country, city, community, church and club.

The following pages outline the key points to raise in order to get this document into the simple and

powerful tool it needs to be by July (to be laid out, refined and translated for November).

This RSG book is intended to be the core handbook of the ISC movement for the next 5 years or

more. It is meant to replace the Heart Handbook. There will be other materials (like the Big Books)

that will have more detail, but this should make sense to a pastor or leader picking it up for the first

time.

In collating the material there are several points that are becoming clear:

1. It is a huge amount of text for anyone to read. It would help to have everything simpler and

shorter. The graphics will help, as it we can try to replace some things with diagrams and pictures.

2. We may need to have two books – one a simple summary and one the more complex version with

more detail.

3. This version is not properly edited. There is a mix of terminology depending on who wrote it. It

would be helpful to avoid “in-house jargon” both Biblical and words we use in the movement that

would not be understood by a new leader/pastor. Use simple words that will be translated easily. If

you notice any words or phrases that could be said in more simple words, please point them out.

4. Now that you can see it together, please look at any section you are involved in and responsible

for and see if it can be said better and with less words. The more discipline we can put in now, the

more useful a tool it will be.

5. Please use the pages following for self-reflection as well as the work done in the task groups.

Thank you.

Si

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Timetable

DATE TASK WHO

Feb 13 Agree to basic flow of the RSG Book GFs and working team

By March 15 All complete their writing tasks to get feedback from the group

All who are assigned sections

By March 30 Send completed version to Liz Groves ([email protected])

All who are assigned sections

By April 15 Collate and edit RSG Book into printable draft

Si

May 2 Deliver printed RSG Book draft to Florida Hotel

Liz & Jorge

May 5-9 Reflection, editing, changes and additions during the May meetings

All

By May 30 All final changes and additions added All who are assigned sections

June 1-30 Final layout, proofing and checking Si

July 1-15 Final signoff from GFs GFs

July 15-30 Automated translation process (20-30 languages?)

Liz

August 1-30 Translation Checking by volunteers (2 per language?)

Call on translation help from across the movement

Sept 1-Oct 30 Conversion into print-ready versions (including checking in each language)

Logosdor + translation volunteers

By Oct 30 Send to print Logosdor

By Nov 7 Deliver to Florida Hotel Printing company

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Key Issues to discuss

1. Outcome for May:

To carefully assess, suggest changes/additions/deletions of the draft version of the RSG book

with the intention that it will become the core handbook and "menu" of the movement for the

next 5 years.

2. Items to discuss:

A. The positioning - we discussed that this should be written from a position within the local

church (as opposed to something that sounds like coming from outside):

1. Have we achieved this?

2. What parts need to be introduced differently for this type

of audience?

3. What else would a local pastor need to read to be

interested in this?

B. The written style, mood and size – the book is designed to be useful for any ISC leader to be

able to multiply the movement to any church and community:

4. Discuss whether it feels too long or enough text?

5. If we had a few versions of the content – 4 pages, 20

pages, 128 pages and a BIG BOOK (300 pages). What

should we do?

6. Does this current book accurately convey the Heart, Style

and Substance of the ISC to a leader/pastor in every local

community on earth?

C. The RSG structure – RSG is mainly designed to be a simple way to explain the whole ISC

movement in three easy steps. It seeks to cover everything that the ISC does, but in the more

simple structure of Ready, Set and Go:

7. Are the elements of the ISC correctly placed and best

understood in the Ready section, the Set section and the

Go section?

8. What elements need to be refined or combined to avoid

confusion – ie. There is quite a lot of overlap in the various

training parts mentioned.

D. The content – this draft does not look good yet. It is simply all the content gathered and put

into an order (that might need to change):

9. Have we explained each element in the best way, with a

succinct number of words? Can any words be replaced

with pictures or diagrams and not lose meaning?

10. Have we captured the essence and core content of every

SP and their message and reason for existence?

11. Are there parts of this, though very good, might not be

needed in the RSG Book and would be better in the Big

Book?


12. How much do we want to refer to existing SPs? Or should

we avoid them, only talking about what they do and the

strategies that can be implemented? (Think of the local

leader reading this book)

13. Are there “in house” words or phrases that could be

explained in simple words that help new people and

translators?

14. Are there names of strategies in the ISC do we want to

keep only in English? Or in English with a translation in

brackets?

15. What other translation issues/implications do we need to

be aware of as we seek to get the RSG book into 50

languages in the next couple of years?

E. The GO Strategies – we picked 25 as a number of strategies. This can change if needed, but

does allow for most of the key ideas:

16. Is 25 strategies the right number?

17. Have we got the right GO strategies listed?

18. What order should they be in?

19. Should the GO strategies be grouped by IN and THROUGH

or some other groupings?

20. Are they all understandable by a local leader/pastor who

picks up this book? Would someone new to the movement

know what to do?

21. How do we avoid people being overwhelmed by the 25

ways and being left paralyzed?

22. Can we keep the wording of each strategy to one or even

half a page?

23. Can we simplify the contact and web details? (ie. Would it

help to have a one page website that redirects people to

what and who they need? In a printed book, what happens

when an email address changes, a website changes, a

person leaves, etc.) What is the best strategy?

F. The Gaps

24. What are the gaps in the book? (is Church Sports and the

local church covered effectively?)

25. When you think of the whole ISC, have we missed anything

important for a local leader to know?

26. Who will write the new sections (by the end of May)?

27. What would be worth adding to help a leader navigate

such a book?


secondary issues and

other questions

G. The look and feel – this version of the book is not laid out at all. It is simply the content. But

discuss any thoughts on what you would like to see in terms of look and feel and style.

H. The strategy of distribution - discussion on the May-November plan (especially translation

and checking of Sovee translations). How many languages? How many printed copies of which

languages? etc.

I. Follow On from the main RSG Book - what content needs to be linked to the book? What

media? Website strategy? Ongoing translation? Updating strategy?

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Your Comments

Write on these pages and tear out and give to Keith or Roy before you leave Orlando. The

following heading are described on the previous page. Or send comments to Si Hood on his new email address – [email protected].

What are your thoughts/comments on:

A. The positioning on the content – does it say what we want to say? Plus how would it be

received and understood by a local pastor or leader?

B. The written style, mood and size - does this accurately convey the Heart, Style and Substance

of the ISC to a leader/pastor in every local community on earth?

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C. The RSG structure - are the elements of the ISC correctly placed and best understood in the

Ready section, the Set section and the Go section?

D. The content - have we explained each element in the best way, with a succinct number of

words? Can any words be replaced with pictures or diagrams and not lose meaning? Have we

captured the essence and core content of every SP and their message and reason for existence?

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E. The GO Strategies - have we got the right GO strategies listed? Are they in the best order? Are

they understandable by a local leader/pastor? Can we keep the wording to one page?

F. The Gaps - what are the gaps in the book? Who will write them (by the end of May)?

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Other notes or comments on the book:

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