Our goal for the summer of 2007 is to work alongside 40 Churches to reach their community through sport. This means we need 16 church partnerships in Ontario, 16 in BC and 8 in Alberta.
We have been pleastanly surprised by the response that we have had so far. As of today we have tentativley booked 6 new church partnership camps. If these churches sign the dotted line, then this will bring us up to a total of 26 church camps so far (13 in Ontario, 8 in BC and 5 in Alberta). As you can see we still have a lot of work to do to reach our goal.
In order for us to adequately serve 40 churches we need to hire 20 coaches. Every summer we hire 4 coaches who travel from church to church, community to community. Their mission is to work alongside church volunteers to faciliate a succesful soccer camp ministry. Not only do they have opportunities to influence kids for Christ but church volunteers too.
In addition to our church based soccer camps, I am very excited to announce that basketball is beginning to initiate partnerships this August. Their goal is to work alongside 4 churches to run basketball camps in BC.
Please pray for the following:
- a total of 40 church partnership soccer camps
- 16 in ON and BC
- 8 in AB
- 20 soccer coaches
- 4 basketball partnerships in BC
- 4 basketball coaches
- that children and their families would come to Christ in new and profound ways.
If you want more information about AIA Church Partnership Camps please go to our NEW Church Partnership Camps website. All you have to do is go to AIA Canada's home page at www.athletesinaction.com and then click on the "Church Partnership Camps" banner (bottom left). Have fun learning about what we offer!
If you know a church or a coach who is interested in useing this great tool to build the body of Christ and engage communities through sport please send them to our CPC webpage to complete the Church Survey or Coach's Interest Form.
For His Kingdom!
Clarke Glover
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