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"Striving to make the world a better place one push-up at a time." - Coach G.
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Last updated August 5, 2020.
Hello! Welcome to our FCA WY Blog.
We hope that the stories and updates here give insight into what God is doing in our square state. We want to engage, equip, and empower our WY athletes and coaches, along with connecting our amazing FCA community of volunteers and supporters.
That’s why…
We would like to share with you in this post how FCA WY wants to minister to our WY coaches and share our interview with a coach who went to Camp this past June (2019):
- Interview with WY Coach
- To and Through the Coach Strategy
- FCA Coaches' Ministry
Camp Impact on Coaches
If you have been praying for a way to impact and influence WY Sports culture, you have to come to the right place! FCA provides the opportunity, tools and resources for our Volunteers to lead others into a relationship with Jesus and grow in their Sport.
This past June (2019), around our country and the world, Fellowship of Christian Athletes held Camps for athletes and coaches under the banner theme of Let's Go! from Matthew 28:18-20. This Camp theme challenged Campers to see that "True competitors encourage each other to greatness."At our Black Hills Sports Camp in Spearfish, Dakota, the theme was certainly apparent. With five days of intense competition and athletic training and coaching, athletes were asked to push themselves out of their comfort zones, show true TEAMWORK and play for God's glory.
The sweat, the exhaustion, the competition...
It was all amazing to watch play out for athletes, huddles and even the Camp Coaches that week.
About Camp Coaches
Camp Coaches serve as a huge role in making Camp an impact on Athletes and Campers. At our Black Hills Sports Camp, we strive to provide safe, healthy environments for our Campers. Furthermore, our Camp Coaches give exceptional coaching and instruction to challenge student athletes in their Sport and Faith at Camp.
All in all, each Sport activity (swimming, basketball, tennis, volleyball, golf, wrestling, track and field, cross country, soccer, and football) presented Camp Coaches with the opportunity to minister to Campers in a way like no other. Camp is an amazing time!
Interview with a Camp Coach
During the Black Hills Camp, Coaches and Football Campers, ranging from middle school to High school, met on the Lyle Hare Stadium Field. Despite the hot summer weather, they gathered together under the rally cry "Let's Go!" and continuously gave their all as individuals and teams.
One of the football Camp Coaches was Coach Darin Gilbertson, a football coach from WY.
Check out what he says about his experience as a Camp Coach:
"FCA camp provided an opportunity to coach the hearts of our athletes with a Christian and biblical foundation. It was an amazing week of faith, family, friends, and football!
Coaching at an FCA camp is such a tremendous opportunity to surround yourself with strong people who share your love and passion for teaching things the right way and backing it all up through scripture, testimony and prayer. It’s an unbelievably powerful experience!"
Hearing how Coach G. was impacted at Camp gets us pumped up and not just for Camp - but also for post-camp when Coaches go back to their Teams and Sport to go big, go bold, go build, and go beyond in their faith!
AND in the same way...
Campers are transformed at Camp through their Coaches!
"I learned how to do sports Gods way." - Camper
"This camp has helped me spiritually and athletically because it has taught me and showed me how to not find all my identity through sports. It also showed me that we were all meant to use our talent in helping someone else throughout life, that God didn’t just save us FROM something but saved us FOR something." - Camper
If you would like to read more about FCA Camp, Coaches, and Campers, go HERE.
To and Through the Coach
In other words, we want to engage, empower and equip Wyoming Coaches just like Coach G. who have a heart for Jesus and Sport. Also, we want to meet other and all coaches wherever they are in their faith journey and throughout our square state.
And while this can and does happen at Camp, transformation and impact can also happen to Coaches back home, in their own communities and through their local FCA.
How does this work?
Our Strategy
Billy Graham once said, “A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.”
With the influence of a Coach, FCA recognizes that the most strategic way to reach more athletes comes from ministering to and through the Coach. This means we want to first minster and serve Coaches hearts, marriages and families. Then, when ready, we minister through these transformed Coaches to their fellow coaches, teams and athlete leaders.
In return, FCA Wyoming believes that this strategy will impact the over 34,000 athletes and coaches
in Wyoming!!
FCA WY Coaches Ministry
FCA Wyoming provides several opportunities to minister and serve to the Coach. Take a look below at some of what we do:
Coaches Huddle
A Coaches Huddle is a certified small Bible Study. Becoming a Huddle Coach, a Coach can lead a Bible study. Take for example, our Pinedale Coaches Bible Study meets regularly each week, reading the 3D book and praying together.
FCA Coaches Academy
FCA provides world-class training to come alongside you and serve you as you seek to become a transformational coach for your athletes. FCA has been granted a license as a “ Level 3 Partner ” of the 3D Institute. This allows FCA to take their 3Dimensional Coaching academic curriculum and create a faith-based version for our coaches ministry.
Task Force Teams and Churches
Volunteers for Task Force Teams and from local churches serve on a Coaches Committee specifically focused on ways to serve Coaches and their families which include Coaches breakfasts and lunches, Night out and taking the lead on events to get student athletes into a Huddle and go to Camps.
If you would like to learn more about WHAT WE DO, go HERE.
There you have it....
FCA WY desires to impact the hearts, lives and families of our Coaches. We hope that you will join us in that ministry through prayer, serving, leading and giving!
We also would love to hear more stories like Coach G. to share and encourage our Sports community and culture in Wyoming.
Thank you for reading. And, thank you to Coach G. for sharing your Camp story with FCA!
God Bless,
FCA Wyoming
Help us see the world AND WYOMING transformed by Jesus Christ
through the influence of coaches and athletes.
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