One of the Most Important Skills You Need as a Ministry Leader
One of the most important skills you need as a ministry leader–especially a sports ministry leader–is follow-up. Anybody in ministry who recruits people needs to do this…
Recruiting Volunteers
Recruiting volunteers in sports ministry often proves difficult. Every church and every ministry has their own strategies for recruiting volunteers. Listen to what Ritchie Miller, Senior Pastor of Avalon Church in McDonough, Georgia says about recruiting volunteers…
Evangelism is a Team Sport
The above excerpt is from a training called Organic Outreach. Bob Schindler discusses the need for people to see evangelism as a group effort.
“Why don’t you kill yourself?”
In 2009, Bill Maher made a movie, Religulous, where he asks a man who believes he will go to be with God when he dies, “Then why don’t you kill yourself?”
How Should You Handle a Blowout?
The question of how to handle a blowout as a winning coach is relevant at almost any level of basketball…
Becoming a Better Conversationalist
If you seek to be a good evangelist, then you need to be a good conversationalist…
The Value Of Trusting Others On Your Team
So if you are choosing people to be part of your team or looking for someone new to give you a different perspective, don’t just look for someone you have things in common with or that you like. Instead, choose someone you TRUST that isn’t afraid to challenge you or push you to grow beyond your current, self-imposed, borders…
The Truth: It Hurts, It Helps, or Both?
It’s better to walk in the freedom of the truth than agonize in the disappointment of a loss! I know as an athlete you HATE to admit that anyone is better than you, but sometimes that is the case, and it is liberating when you are able to bury the pride and admit it…
It’s the Hard that Makes It Great
But, who wouldn’t want to feel the way many coaches feel at the end? If you truly understand the mission and vision… if you put in the extra effort… if you view your role as “more than just a coach…
Does Winning Matter?
Unfortunately, what happens many times is that ministry teaches us to do the opposite. We want to be so different than “those other places” that we shy away from anything competitive. We make our leagues more about fun than competing…