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FGA Family Sports Carnival 2008

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Since the very beginning of KidsGames and all GCG the need to follow-through after events has been a clear goal. It is through relationships that long term fruit grows. Now 8 years later we have seen huge response to the message and the need to follow-through is greater than ever. Because of this need, Max7 was developed as a GCG strategy to gather and make available, completely free, great resources to help leaders and churches help kids and teens grow in their faith.

Max7 is not a one set program, but an online library of many ideas gathered from around the world. Go to www.max7.org and download a resource! There have been 68,000 downloads from the site to 128 countries so far.

YOUR SKILLS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED BY GCG - the Max7 part of GCG needs your skills to ensure that enough material is available this year for the millions that will participate in GCG across the world.

Can you help volunteer by:

1. Offering to translate the website interface into your language
(takes approximately 32 hours and can be done online)?

2. Take one or more of the existing resources on the website and
translate it? Even one document will help?

3. Giving a lesson or resource that can go into the library and be
shared across the world? (Must be yours and free of anyone’s name or
free for people to make copies)

Date: 28th August till 31st August (plus 2 days for post-conference event)
Conference Fees: S$80.00 (before 30th June)
Venue: Praisehaven, The Salvation Army, 500 Upper Bukit Timah Road, Singapore
Speakers: 13 speakers from 11 countries
Spills and Thrills: Archery, Geo-Tracking, Mountain Biking, Rock-Climbing/Abseiling, Bukit Timah Hike
Post-Conference: Wilderness First Aid, Leave No Trace, Sports Climbing Level 1&2
To register: www.christianadventureasia.org

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Do you ever get a little frustrated with people who don’t want to keep score? I have friends who want to go play golf, but not keep score. I don’t want to play with those guys. I tell them, “Just go to the driving range and don’t clutter up the golf course.” What’s the point in playing the game if you don’t compete?

So what’s the big deal with competition? Is it, as some think, for one to show his superiority over another? For some this is probably true. For most of us however, the point is to test ourselves. That’s exactly the point in golf, as each one is competing primarily against the course. It is a test of one’s skills, not just a competition with one’s opponent.

How does competition test us? Let’s make a brief list:

• Competition tests us physically – technique, talent and fitness.
• Competition tests us mentally – focus, knowledge and insight.
• Competition tests us spiritually – self-control, faith and love.

Why compete? To compete well is to test oneself against an ascending scale of standards of achievement. This list of standards is borrowed from Dr. Jim Rimmer of Erie, Pennsylvania.

• Competing against the elements of the sport. (Fundamentals)
• Competing against one’s opponent. (To beat that person or team)
• Competing against an objective standard. (Statistics)
• Competing against one’s personal best. (Personal records)
• Competing to a mental image. (Like a video of the sport’s best)
• Competing “in the zone.” (Being in the flow)

Competition tests us in ways that move us beyond mediocrity and it challenges us to become all we are capable of being. Don’t let the test intimidate you, rather step up, play your heart out and feel the satisfaction of having done your level best in pursuit of an honorable victory. Win or lose, you have made progress in the life-long process of developing as a complete person.

For more of Roger’s material
1 Email him and ask him to send you his weekly email – it is almost as good as mine!! lipe@earthlink.net
2 Read his book Transforming Lives in Sport – A Guide for Sport Chaplains and Sport Mentors. (Available through www.crosstrainingpublishing.com.)
3 See his blog http://sportchaplainsportmentor.blogspot.com/
4 See www.wired4sport.com.

Stuart Weir
www.veritesport.org