Thank you to everyone who
prayed for our work in Indianapolis last week. We were privileged to gather a
great team of men and women from India, New Zealand, Sweden, Canada, Australia,
and from the USA they came in from Missouri, Michigan, North Carolina, Indiana,
and Illinois. We worked long hours and experienced a tremendous amount of unity
as we collaborated on a basic, introductory training course for sports
chaplains that will be delivered in six one hour sessions. I am forever
indebted to this excellent set of men and women for their excellent contributions
and their loving partnership.
We received tremendous contributions from these organizations as
well:
Traders Point Christian
Church – Indianapolis, IN – our hosts
Sports Chaplaincy Australia
Sports Chaplains Network -
USA
Sports Chaplaincy New Zealand
Sport for Life – Sweden
Sports Chaplaincy United
Kingdom
RBC Ministries and www.sport.org – USA
The Pentecostal Assemblies of
Canada
Fellowship of Christian
Athletes
The training will be
comprised of a pdf to download which has the strong content of the training, an
approximately five minute video to watch that will illustrate the main points
of the session, and on screen instructions for the trainee. We worked hard to
keep the language very basic as we believe most of our trainees will be second
language English speakers. We also aim to keep the documents brief and the
video short in duration, being mindful that not everyone on the planet has high
speed Internet. We aimed to be user friendly for our friends who are working at
old school, dial up Internet speeds.
As we outlined last week, the
training consists of these primary categories to be delivered in one hour
sessions:
1.
Introduction
/ Profile of Sportspeople
2.
A
Biblical Foundation for Sport Chaplain Ministry
3.
Profile
of a Sport Chaplain / Code of Conduct for Sport Chaplains
4.
A
Sport Chaplain’s Relationships
5.
Serving
as a Sport Chaplain in Critical Incidents and Crises
6.
A
Sport Chaplain’s Strategies, Methods, Resources, and a Process for Beginning
A little bit of final editing
will be done over the next few weeks to gain continuity of format, page design,
etc. and to check spelling, grammar, and other items of detail. We aim to do
this with excellence.
I will be presenting the
content of our work during the InSport meetings of our Sports Ministry network
during meetings in Orlando, FL in November. Once it is finalized, approved, and
then loaded onto the website, I will be sure to inform you of the address. We
would then be thrilled to have you include it in your training, to link to it
from your web site, and to use it in other ways that benefit the growth of this
sort of ministry around the world.
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