By asking questions, you are not only validating your listening and understanding, you are inviting more participation…
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Written by Ken Cross, Church Mentor at CEDE Partners – an Initiative of CEDE Sports Our Present Reality We have all heard about making lemonade out of lemons. This phrase…
Written by Bob Schindler, Executive Director of CEDE Partners – an Initiative of CEDE Sports More Congregations are Utilizing SR&F Outreach Ministry* “Sports ministry in local churches is on…
If you’re a coach, a pastor, or a sports minister, you have the tall order of shaping people’s worldview on competition and winning…
Written by Bob Schindler, Executive Director of CEDE Partners – an Initiative of CEDE Sports This is not the way things are supposed to be! “Kobe Bryant and his daughter…
And it’s not even numbers, it’s much more than that. There’s a spiritual maturity issue as well. There is a large percentage of men in the local church are who…
I’ve been guilty of it. I’m still guilty of it. Almost everyone I know in sports ministry is guilty of it. We, in the sports ministry world, are slaves to…
There’s nothing wrong with feedback. The problem is most people are living FOR feedback, rather than FROM feedback…
Finding The Answer As I have searched myself and helped others along toward the answer to this “burning” question, I find it is important to know at least three things: 1) …
[return_button] As I begin, let me ask you some important questions: How is your Sports Ministry going? If you only have a one word answer like, “Fine” or “OK” this…
So what sport do you think we have played or play the most in the US? Is it one of the traditional big three – football, basketball, or baseball? Or…
I recently ran across a fascinating article on Barna.org entitled “Futball to Football:What Americans Think of Sports.” Over the next several posts, I will comment on aspects of this article…
Despite technological advances that make communications instant and far-reaching, Christians are becoming more spiritually isolated from non-Christians than was true a decade ago…
My understanding of how you reach a culture is Christians have to be extremely like the people around them, and yet at the same time extremely unlike them…
Here are some books that we would recommend any sports outreach leader read