This is an exciting summer of collaboration in the Philippines. This summer, Sports Ambassadors, Philippine Challenge, and our Taiwan team are working together to use sports camps as a tool for planting new churches and revitalizing existing churches. Some training and camps have already happened and there are three more camps coming this summer.
Through an innovative new program, leaders are trained to plant new churches in the local basketball gyms. Filipinos love basketball and you can find covered gyms in every community. This provides a location for people to gather for worship, discipleship, and evangelism. Several churches are already involved with more to come. Over one hundred church planters have been trained already and now they are working on new curriculum to scale the project for growth and reproduction in the Philippines and beyond.
OC's Sports Ambassadors (SA) serve alongside many of our teams in different locations. Sports has become a natural channel for developing meaningful relationships which lead to opportunities to share about Jesus Christ. SA is a great resource to assist local ministries and churches to develop their own sports ministries.