Big Hopes for 2018

January 31, 2018

2018 is SportQuest’s 20th anniversary, and we’ve probably never been more excited about what God is doing in and through… Read more Big Hopes for 2018

2018 is SportQuest’s 20th anniversary, and we’ve probably never been more excited about what God is doing in and through this ministry.  SportQuest is positioned to make a great impact this year in the lives of many youth and families around the world.  Here are some of our goals and “big hopes” for 2018:

  • Develop effective Disciple-Making Teams in 16 SQ cities by 2020
  • Launch 30 discipleship groups in 2018 and multiply this to 90 by 2020
  • Reach 2,000 kids in Generation Z worldwide through SQ programs in 2018
  • Send 75 short-term mission participants to 12 different cities around the world to engage the lost through sports camps in 2018
  • Pilot a new internship program for college students in 2018
  • Train 2 pilot churches in 2018 to start sport ministry in their communities using our sport camp strategy and expand this to 5 new churches by 2020
  • Our staff will serve the global sport ministry movement to develop a fully revised and updated sport ministry training manual that will be translated and distributed freely to thousands of sport ministry leaders around the world by May 2019

This is just some of what we expect God to do in and through SportQuest this year!  Will you pray with us for God to open doors and give us the grace and power to make disciples who make disciples through the tool of sport?  That is our heart’s cry, and we can’t do it without people like you who pray, give, and get involved.  Thank you!

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