As a Ministry with a "Holistic" approach, we value Sports Programs because through these, we are able to minister to the various aspects of the people's needs.
We are in the process of launching the CML Sports Evangelism Program, a multi-faceted strategy we plan to use to facilitate the young people’s social, physical, spiritual, emotional and talent development, through organized Soccer tournaments, bringing together institutional teams and local community youth clubs. In the process, we get the opportunity to have a preaching/teaching session before every match.
To support this program, we have secured a partnership with SoccerGrow, a US-based Soccer Charity Organization to help with the supply of Sports Equipment. SoccerGrow has the mission committed “to support and grow positive change in the world by changing lives through the power of Soccer”. The first consignment of Soccer Equipment to facilitate the launching has already been dispatched on the 10th of September 2008 and we are awaiting receipt of the same. We appreciative and are excited about this partnership!
For more information about SoccerGrow check this link:http://www.soccergrow.org/about
Apart from availing the opportunity to have the Gospel of Christ preached to the participants (including the spectators) during the tournaments, we have seen Sports Evangelism to have the following impact:
1. Young people's talents get to be identified and nurtured.
2. The people's Social growth gets facilitated as they interact during the tournaments.
3. The participants' physical development is facilitated as they engage in physical exercise.
4. All the participants get to be nourished spiritually as the Gospel of Christ is preached and taught. We have witnessed young people's lives transformed as they receive Christ as their Lord and Saviour.
5. We have witnessed behaviour change in terms of reduction in crime, drunkenness and idleness amongst the youth in the community, during and after the tournaments.
6. We have found Physical exercise and time to socialize helping reduce stress and facilitate focus amongst students.
At this initial stage, we expect 11 teams to participate in the Community Tournament, 14 High School Teams and 8 Primary School Teams to participate in the Schools Tournaments - a total of 33 Teams. However, the magnitude of actual participation may increase as already indicated in update reports by our organizing committee on the ground.
We are planning to start with the Community Tournament and the Primary Schools Tournament (under -15 years of age). The High School Tournament will commence early next year since the High Schools get very reluctant to participate in extracurricular activities during this 3rd term of the academic year.
As an incentive, we plan to give each participating team a ball for their training sessions. After the finals, we would also plan to give some awards to the 3 best teams and individual players in each tournament.
Tentatively, we plan to kick off the tournaments in the last weekend of September 2008. The launching is scheduled for Saturday the 27th September, 2008 at the Kitere Technical School Sports ground in Rongo District.
We expect wonderful testimonies of lives transformed through this program. Kindly pray and believe with us! You are also welcome to support this program financially or by donating Sports Equipment.
God bless you.
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