Make the Winter Olympics outreach a local event

If you can’t make it to Vancouver, use the Games as a focus for congregational community outreach events!

Olympic “fever” will spread across Canada as the torch run begins the countdown to the Opening Ceremonies of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. The Olympics provides us with an excellent opportunity to connect with our communities and share the Good News of our Lord! 

How can the Olympic Games provide your congregation with local outreach opportunities in your own community?

• Host a sports outreach event (i.e. block party) at your local park or your gym.
• Host an open crowd and big screen community festival (e.g. the Opening Ceremonies and/or the Gold Medal hockey game might be projected on a large screen in your gym or fellowship hall)
• Organize a weekend sports camp for kids, similar to a VBS;
• Distribute sports specific Christian literature in your community.
• Buy and distribute copies of the sports-oriented DVD Struggle and Triumph (www.tobiascom.com/lcc )
• If the Olympic Torch is going through your area, think of ways you can serve those lining the torch route (http://tinyurl.com/n4rfds)

To help you organize local events, More Than Gold, a Christian church network focusing connecting with people at the Vancouver Olympics, has produced a helpful “How to” manual which you can download for free at: http://tinyurl.com/nkk5bx

More Than Gold (www.morethangold.ca  is looking for people to serve in the area of creative and performing arts or on mission teams, in Internet cafés, at sports camps or in social ministry initiatives. More Than Gold can also provide you with ideas/resources of how to organize and host local outreach events.Sign up on the More Than Gold (www.morethangold.ca/content/churches ) website as a participating church and then request information. More Than Gold has inexpensive outreach resources that you can purchase (E.g. a Gospel of Mark is $1; a copy of the New Testament is $2).

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