Youth Sport - Update

NEWS AND VIEWS

Spring Sports Plus Conference: make sure you check out the dates and are able to come - there are still places left. 4 days of Bible teaching, PPS seminars, small group activities, and of course - sport! It's Sports Plus but in a conference! Find out more

Pray Play Say Groups - 193 of you attended in January - the most we've ever had. Check out the website to find your nearest one

One Day Sports Plus camps are coming up - details for Belfast, Lincoln, Perthshire and Oxfordshire are now online.

Academy retreat: Owen Broad says: "too hard to pick out my best moment - the week was just so good. Studies in Ephesians ch 2, the fellowship, the unity between the team, the fun, the banter, the sport and the place were all top notch. A great start to my Academy experience.

PLAYER PROFILE

Introducing the Academy 08...

Full Name: Robert Rushbrook
Nickname: Rob
Home town: Ipswich
Top Sport: football
Why the Academy?: I have a passion for sport and a passion for Christ and know that Christians in Sport is a perfect opportunity for me. I want to gain more skills with communicating to youth and not having shame in what I believe. I want to bring people to the Lord through sport and to be a stronger witness for God.

Want to appear in the Player Profiles? Send yours to: (sarah@christiansinsport.org.uk)

BIBLE BIT

Series: Do everything with all your heart

Colossians 3v23 says "whatever you do work at it with all your heart as working for the lord, not for men."

For the next couple of months we're going to have a look at what it means to do everything with all our hearts. We're going to look at what it means to play in a way that honours God above every worldly desire. We're going to take the ten big issues for young sportspeople to address as they seek to play their sport with all their heart. And so, we need your help.

WHAT ARE THE BIG ISSUES YOU HAVE TO THINK THROUGH/FIGHT AGAINST IN YOUR QUEST TO HONOUR GOD THROUGH PLAYING YOUR SPORT?

Please email your list of issues and we'll work through what God teaches about how we are to respond.

Paul in Colossians is quite clear that every area of our lives should be governed by the attitude of heart and he says that we should give our all to every situation that we find ourselves in. This might mean physically, it might mean mentally, but it always means wholeheartedly; and the key to it all is our motive and attitude.

I wonder if we really understood that God sees everything we do, and understood what an honour and privilege it is to give it all back to him, would we change?

Let's pray that God would change our desires, motives and attitudes so that all the time we will do everything with all our heart. Exciting to find out more!

DIARY

8 Feb Belfast PPS group
9 Feb London PPS group
9 Feb Oxford Night of Champions
10 Feb Cardiff PPS Group
11 Feb Oxford PPS group
17 Feb Liverpool PPS group
18 Feb Perth PPS group
19 Feb Cambridge PPS group
20 Feb Aberdeen PPS group
22 Feb Leeds PPS Group
23 Feb Bath PPS group
27 Feb Edinburgh PPS group

For more dates click here

PRAYER POINTS

Pray that God would change our hearts to enable us to give it all back to him.
Pray for 3 friends who you are trying to represent Jesus to, that they would see something different about your motivation and attitude.
Pray for the Pray Play Say groups, (see list above) that they would equip and encourage Pray Play Say-ers this week.
Pray for Rob Rushbrook as he settles into his church and school Academy placement in Bicester - that he would be an effective weapon for the Gospel!

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