F.C.A. Chaplain Models

A) Full-time Chaplain on a university campus. (100% in chaplain role)
a. 1 or more sports per season.
b. Coaches Ministry:
i. Mentoring coaches
ii. Studies with coaches
iii. Assist the staff with the team
c. Campus Ministry:
i. Lead the campus huddle
ii. Attend practices and games as permitted/assigned
iii. Team chapels
iv. Player studies / meetings
v. Roles of service to the team as assigned
vi. Travel with team as assigned by coaching staff
d. Community:
i. FCA events
ii. Game Days, etc…
e. Camps:
i. Serve as Camp staff
ii. Network players to camps as huddle leaders
iii. Network coaches to camps as staff / clinicians

B) Area Representative / Director and Part-time Chaplain (50% in chaplain role)
a. 1 or more sports per season. (Similar opportunities, but with less time invested.)
b. Coaches Ministry:
i. Mentoring coaches
ii. Studies with coaches
iii. Assist the staff with the team
c. Campus Ministry:
i. Lead the campus huddle
ii. Attend practices and games as permitted/assigned
iii. Team chapels
iv. Player studies / meetings
v. Roles of service to the team as assigned
vi. Travel with team as assigned by coaching staff
d. Community:
i. FCA events
ii. Game Days, etc…
e. Camps:
i. Serve as Camp staff
ii. Network players to camps as huddle leaders
iii. Network coaches to camps as staff / clinicians

C) Area Representative / Director and Chaplain (10% of time in chaplain role)
a. 1 sport per season.
b. Coaches Ministry:
i. Mentoring coaches
ii. Studies with coaches
iii. Assist the staff with the team
c. Campus Ministry:
i. Lead the campus huddle
ii. Attend practices and games as permitted/assigned
iii. Team chapels
iv. Player studies / meetings
d. Community:
i. FCA events
ii. Game Days, etc…
e. Camps:
i. Serve as Camp staff
ii. Network players to camps as huddle leaders
iii. Network coaches to camps as staff / clinicians

Note: All opportunities, strategies and resources must be shaped by the chaplain’s gifts, passions, and personality as well as by the Head Coach’s level of interest, values, the amount of access granted, the Athletic Director and NCAA compliance officer’s attitudes, the local culture and more…

2008 Chaplain’s Roundtable Ministry

The Chaplain’s Roundtable Ministry desires to encourage, train and provide networking opportunities for sports chaplains and sports ministry leaders. This is accomplished through one day annual conferences featuring workshops, panel discussions, resource materials and of course, prayer.

Good Morning,

I trust your summer is going well. If you are like me, you have said on numerous occasions…”I can’t believe how quickly these months are passing by!”
Well, with that in mind, I thought I should get some information off to you about this year’s Roundtable events. Our first annual Charlotte Roundtable will be held October 15th at Joe Gibbs Racing. JGR chaplain Bob Dyar will be our keynote speaker. You will not want to miss his challenge from God’s Word.

The Lansing and Indianapolis events are set as God has certainly provided some wonderful speakers for us. Among our guests in Indy will be Olympic gold medalist Shelby Wilson. Lansing will welcome for the first time Robby Richardson as a featured speaker. Robby is the son of former Yankee great Bobby Richardson. We’ll also have the privilege of hearing from Larry Patton of Hurdling Handicaps Ministry. You’ll be blessed and challenged from Larry’s story and heart for our Lord.

As always, there is no cost to attend a Chaplain’s Roundtable event. You can register on line by visiting http://www.geocities.com/chaplainsroundtable/welcome.html
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give me a ring or shoot me an email. Enjoy your summer but please do no forget to register for the 2008 Chaplain’s Roundtable.

By His Grace,
Bill Houston
Sports Spectrum Radio
Chaplain’s Roundtable Ministry
616-974-2583-office #
616-648-3564-cell #

Sport Chaplain Training in Jamaica

All this week I’ve been in Jamaica working with Percival Palmer of Caribbean Sports Reach and Andre Virtue of Whole Life Sports for a series of Sport Chaplain and Sport Mentor training sessions. We did one-day sessions on Monday in Kingston, Tuesday in Montego Bay, Wednesday in Mandeville and Thursday again in Kingston.

After church on Sunday I watched cricket all afternoon on television. That was more cricket than I had seen in my 52 years previously, combined. Wednesday afternoon we stopped by a football pitch and observed the Reggae Boyz (Jamaican National Football Team) U17 and U20 teams working out. We enjoyed good conversation with several of their coaches and players as well.

We have been thrilled at the participants’ responses to the simple principles for this sort of ministry and their ability to immediately translate them to their particular relationships with teams, coaches and competitors.

We would be pleased to do similar workshops with people in your corner of the world. If you have interest in such, simply email me and we’ll discuss the possibilities.

Jill Perry - UGA Sport Chaplain

Last week I enjoyed a conversation with Jill Perry who serves as a sport chaplain with women’s sports at the University of Georgia in the USA. She has done a great job there for years and has both broadened her influence with an increasing number of sports and has deepened it with greater impact within each one.

She has recently found opportunities with members of the swimming and diving community and we discussed some unique characteristics of that group of sportspeople. Jill is doing a number of things to grow her understanding of swimming technique and strategy, of swimmers’ approach to their sport and their spiritual influences.
· She’s reading books about swimming.
· She’s taking lessons on swimming technique – in the pool getting a feel for it.
· She’s spending more time with swimmers and asking good questions.
· She’s building relationships of trust with the coaching staff.

For Jill, a volleyball player at heart, it’s not easy to make these adjustments, but she’s doing the right things to learn and to connect with the swimmers. The results of her diligence will no doubt be transformational.