Sunday, 12 September 2010 23:51
What a great privilege it is to report to you about our first EXcompetition in Egypt August 2010. First let me give a little explanation of what EXcompetition is: Our mission, in conjunction with our University a few years ago began to look at sports as an official part of what they are doing worldwide, even though sports had been started many years ago by people such as Jimmy Stewart out of Hong Kong, Kevin Stark also out of Hong Kong and Montana, Keith Buzzard from Montana, Baher from Egypt, more recently, Coach Powers from Kona, and so many others. We began with a meeting of a few of us in Kansas City, trying to discern where we are with sports and its many facets around the world. From that meeting till now many sports schools, and people have been beginning to work together to further the Kingdom through sports. Affiliations have been recognized with groups such as global network of sports ministries, Athletes in Action (AIA), etc. our university has now recognized sports as part of one of its colleges, College of Arts and Sports, and has begun to set up seminars, courses and outreaches, and will hopefully offer a complete degree program in the near future.
One of those outreaches is EXcompetition, bringing together all ages in various sports activities to train, teach and share. The first one was just held in Alexandria, Egypt, with college students and others competing in sports competition such as basketball, table tennis, dodge ball, volleyball and soccer.
Not only did we have competition, but we had dramas, praying for the nations, challenges for young people to use sports as a tool for training and sharing, fellowship times, studies, and on and on.
A special thank you to Baher and his amazing staff who put the whole thing together!!
We are hoping to have other competitions over these next few years to further get the message of sports out, and challenge those in our mission, different organizations, and others to continue to use sport as a tool and to consider a degree from the university in the College of Arts and Sports to train many in coaching, reaching the un-reached, mercy ministries, reaching the homeless, street children through sports, extreme sports training, athletic performance enhancement instructor certification etc.
Please if you have any further questions visit www.ywamsports.org or send an e-mail to Baher Ghaly, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; Merja Ruokonen, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ；John LaDue, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
