Sport-Specific Ministries
FCA has experienced significant growth through our Sport-Specific Ministries in the past 5 years. Currently, we have six Sport-Specific Ministries: golf, lacrosse, baseball, fitness, motocross, and endurance. This has allowed us to go expand our ministry as we minister more effectively to the coaches and athletes in each of these sports.
The vision of FCA's Sport-Specific Ministries is to minister to a community of people who are united around a particular sport. FCA Sport-Specific Ministries desire to reach and serve athletes, coaches, and volunteers to expand God’s Kingdom.
The need today is even greater to reach athletes and coaches different ways.
- A study shows that 41 million youth ages 6-18 participated in organized youth sports and just over 7 million participated in high school sports.
- The impact opportunity is to reach more of the remaining 34 million youth who participate outside of high school sports and that we are not reaching in our Campus or Camps Ministries.
- Our goal is to have 12 Sport-Specific Ministries in the next five years so that we can better reach the 34 million athletes that we can not reach through our other ministries. (Source: National Council of Youth Sports Membership Survey 2005, and the National Federation of State High School Associations, 2004-05)
We feel that Sport-Specific Ministry is a powerful way to do ministry, because the philosophy that people of sport best reach people of their sport is a focused approach. Sport-Specific Ministries partner with local FCA offices to have a greater impact.
Over the past thirty years, we have seen Sport-Specific Ministry work, because it combines three passions in a person's heart:
- A passion for Jesus Christ
- A passion for their Sport
- A passion to reach people in their Sport
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Golf
est. 1977
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Lacrosse
est. 1988
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Baseball
est. 2003
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Health and Fitness
est. 2004
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Motocross
est. 2004
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Endurance
est. 2005
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