I have been absent from this space for over a month as I was traveling to Ukraine and then up to my eyeballs in running FCA Power Camps in my area. Four of our six camps are now completed and I am coming up for air today. I would like to share with you the tremendous success we enjoyed at the Sports Chaplaincy School in Kyiv, Ukraine at the beginning of June. Sara Hurst of FCA at the University of Illinois (USA) and I shared the presentation responsibilities with the fifty people who had come from all across Ukraine for this training. Our colleagues of FCA Ukraine had received and translated into Russian, all the material on the web at www.globalsportschaplaincy.org and they translated the PowerPoint presentations I had created for the training. This work was done with excellence and fidelity. We delivered the material as it appears on the web site, but with much more depth as we engaged them in many small group discussions to help them process and to enculturate the concepts...
This is a blog for my colleagues who are engaged in ministry with people of sport. In particular it is for those of us who refer to our roles as "Character Coach" or “Sports Chaplain."