Top 10 Mistakes Sports Ministers Make For 20 plus years CEDE Sports has been committed to coming alongside Local Churches to catalyze a vigorous and effective pursuit of their mission to use the tool of sports to reach their communities. One of the ways we accomplish this is by mentoring Sports Ministers. In the…
I might say this to someone I think has too high an opinion of themselves or their abilities. “Get a grip” would be my reminder that they aren’t or can’t. My exhortation would be a call to come back to reality. Someone else might use it for someone who seems to be lost in fear…
Two years ago one of our team members Ken Cross did a survey of existing sports chaplains, he asked them one simple question? What is your biggest challenge? The answers came back consistently time and time again – isolation and finance. Chaplains reported to be often misunderstood in their churches, the congregation not having a…
We are very excited about the future God has for us at CEDE Partners. In the light of that excitement, we have designed a new website. We have even changed our name to reflect more who we are and where we are going. With all these changes, some very core components of what…
We are excited to start this new chapter in our ministry to churches. Since 1996, our ministry mission has been to mobilize churches and chaplains through sports. During that time, the initiative of our ministry to Churches – most recently referred to as Church Sports Outreach (CSO) – has worked with Local Churches both in…
Often times, we use numbers as ways to measure success in ministry. Numbers tell a part of the story but certainly not all of the story…