Home - Ministries - Sports Ministries - News - Why Sports Ministries? Because sports and recreation offer the church unique tools to accomplish the following tasks:

• A means of forming friendships and building relationships
• A means of promoting "body life" (internal church fellowship)
• Facilitates life-style and the proclamation of evangelism
• Creates a bridge to the lost in the community. . . even to the resistant
• A means of helping someone grow in his or her faith. . . a tool for discipleship within the sporting environment
• A door of service for those who are not involved in ministry to the body
• A means of "closing the back door" through small group discipleship and accountability
• A ministry servant to the other ministries of the church (Children, Youth, Adult, Singles, Seniors, etc.)
• A ministry that contributes to leadership training
• A means of building "stepping stones" from the field/gym to the worship center

Sports is culturally relevant and, therefore, a strategic way to introduce people to the church and to the person of Jesus Christ. It doesn’t matter if I am interested in sports; the key is to recognize that lost people are interested and that is where they congregate. Where would Jesus be?