Happy beautiful Monday, CSports family! I was told that all went well Saturday and that the happy shouts and smiles were abundant during soccer games. My wife and I were with friends for the weekend at Dauphin Island and I sat in a chair with my iPad in my lap on a deck overlooking the water waiting for texts and videos from the soccer games. You guys were in my heart big time!
This week is CSports Week here at Christ United Methodist. Please be looking for our pastors and representatives during the week who will be greeting folks and inviting all to attend one of our worship services this coming Sunday (8:00am, 9:15am, or 10:40am) to be recognized during the service. The ministry provided through your service and through the participation of the hundreds of families who are here each week is a blessing to our congregation and leadership and they, in turn, want to thank you in person. PLEASE encourage all of your families to come to one of our five services, players wear their shirts, and stand to be recognized during the service when the announcement is made. Those who will be going to their own churches can come to one of our early services and make it back to their own church even if they have to slip out early.
This morning I was in our gym making a video to be shown Sunday explaining (in 60 seconds) what CSports is about. There is something about verbalizing a purpose that seems to make it even more real. In 1 Corinthians 2:4 Paul tells the people of the church in Corinth, “My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.” If you go back and study the history of this letter you will see that the church in Corinth was being changed more by the world than the world was being changed by the church. We see that over and over each day on the news. As I was talking about CSports it became even more real to me how our presentation of sports activities is having a greater affect on the community than we may know; not just through our words, but through our actions. Because our coaches and leaders focus, not only on fundamentals, strategies, and skills, but on sportsmanship, fairness, teamwork, and grace, as these young ones move into the “world” of school or travel sports, they will make a difference; a good difference. Anywhere you have led one, they will lead another. You, through faith and perseverance, will have made the world a better place. You will have made a better mom or dad for future generations; a better CSports or even All Star Coach for future athletes. That’s why we do what we do the way we do it.
Please be sure to get your families here Sunday morning. We’ve already gotten some great reports about Team Service Projects. Soon we will be doing Celebration Banners. We have a busy few weeks! Thank you all for everything you do to make this ministry effective. See you Sunday!
In His Service,
Steve Ellisor, Recreation Minister
Christ United Methodist Church
251-706-3326
“In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:6