preparing for readysetgo handbook (nov 2014)

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Contents A Wonderful Moment ................................................................................................... 3 What will not change? .................................................................................................. 5 Making disciples who make disciples .................................................................... 6 Every city every community ................................................................................... 7 The Heart of the Movement .................................................................................. 9 What we do: Proclaim the Gospel .............................................................. 10 What we do: Make Disciples ....................................................................... 11 What we do: Obey the Bible ....................................................................... 12 Where we serve: In and through the Local Church ..................................... 13 Where we serve: In and through Sport ....................................................... 14 Where we serve: In every country and every city ....................................... 15 How we do it: We live as servants ............................................................... 16 How we do it: We work in teams ................................................................ 17 How we do it: We partner ........................................................................... 18 The Ethos of the Movement ................................................................................ 19 What does Open Source mean? .................................................................. 23 What will change and why? ........................................................................................ 25 Why do we need change? .................................................................................... 26 Roles that Serve Disciple‐making ......................................................................... 27 As simple as Ready Set and GO ............................................................................ 29 How ReadySetGO helps ....................................................................................... 30 ReadySetGO Tools................................................................................................ 31 New understanding on teams ............................................................................. 32 So What Happens to Mini‐Regions? .................................................................... 33 What if? Implications for every community ....................................................... 34 Work to be done .......................................................................................................... 35 Strategic Program Tasks....................................................................................... 36 Regional Tasks ...................................................................................................... 39 ReadySetGO Equipping Framework ..................................................................... 40

READY tools to help research, gathering and envision .............................. 40 SET tools to train and equip in the Heart of the Movement ..................... 40 GO tools to empower leaders to GO and make disciples .......................... 41

Go Strategies ........................................................................................................ 42 Translation ........................................................................................................... 43 Video and Photos ................................................................................................. 45 How to Take Better Video and Photos ................................................................ 46


A Wonderful Moment In November 2015 a simple change is coming that will impact the sports movement worldwide.

“For many years we have looked by faith to the day when the sports movement was prepared to serve every city, town and village. This is a wonderful moment in the sports movement where we are at this remarkable time. Serving every city, town and village is possible.

To help this to happen, we are simplifying many explanations in the movement. This will help us all to explain to pastors, church and agency leaders how they can partner to expand the sports training and impact where we live and through pioneering surrounding new locations.” ‐ EW

From now until November 2015 (and beyond), you have a part to play in making this happen.

This is a document and a process that is still developing. Please give your input on anything you read or hear. This is a combined effort across the whole movement.

This booklet has been given to you as a key leader to help you participate in making this simplification task a reality. The booklet answers three questions:

1. What is NOT changing in the movement? 2. What is expected to change and why? 3. What can we all do to help this to happen?

A huge amount of work is yet to be done – writing, editing, translating, videoing, training, preparing, etc. As you read through this booklet, please look at tasks that are needed and volunteer to do them for your language, for your strategic program or for your geographic region.


What will not change? There are many things that will never change. Especially the Biblical foundations that drive the sports movement everywhere.

We are a movement of leaders across the whole world. We are not an organization in the typical sense of the world, but a Jesus‐focused partnering family passionate about sport.

The two not‐negotiable foundations that hold us together are the Heart of the Movement and the ‘Ethos’ or way we serve each other. We first highlight two parts of the Heart that are of particular importance at the moment:

1 Making disciples Our purpose is to be a disciple and make disciples of Jesus Christ in and through the world of sport.

2 Every Country Every City Every Community

We are seeking to live out Jesus’ command to make disciples of every nation. We push out to every possible large and small grouping of people in the whole world knowing that sport is one of the most powerful tools God has given his Body to accomplish the Great Commission.

3 The Heart of the Movement

9 core actions that have defined the sports movement for 40 years.

4 The ethos and spirit of how we serve

A number of hard‐learned lessons from many decades that help us understand what works in a Kingdom‐minded partnering family.


Making disciples who make disciples We are disciples of Jesus Christ. A ‘disciple’ literally means ‘a learner’ and usually a learner from a Master Teacher.

Jesus is our Master Teacher. Our lives are defined by what we have learnt from Jesus and how we put His words into practice daily. It is Jesus who showed who God really is and Jesus who showed that the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is fulfilled in Himself (see Luke 24:27 and Matthew 5:17).

Our purpose is to be a disciple and make disciples of Jesus Christ in and through the world of sport.

Summarizing that from the Heart of the Movement it means:

1. We live as disciples of Jesus Christ 2. We make disciples of Jesus Christ 3. We make disciples who make disciples

This is a continuing cycle of raising up disciples of Jesus who are passionate and equipped to do the same.

Disciple‐making or Proclaiming the Gospel?

We do both. Always, often and everywhere.

Sometimes our proclamation of the gospel leads to discipling and sometimes discipling leads to proclaiming the gospel. All is done in obedience to the Bible.

It is in the implementation together of all nine parts of the Heart of the Movement that the best outcomes emerge.


Every city every community The sports movement has always been a vision of locally driven discipling, that could be multiplied anywhere. Imagine if it spread to every single community on earth.

From the very start of this movement, the vision has been to raise up sports teams locally. No decision has been made on behalf of someone else, it has always been about bringing the right people around the table from all over the world and letting them shape the movement and serve their country.

“Global” meetings, starting with the one in Hong Kong in 1982, have been gatherings of local people from different countries talking about serving their countries and cities.

When the Mini‐region strategy began in 2003, it was about replicating this same model in a region. One ‘stronger’ country serving as a facilitator to bring together leaders from different countries to help them serve their nations.

As mini‐regions achieve that goal, it moves to the next stage of countries taking on the vision for every city in their nation. One city may be better equipped at this time to bring leaders together to see the other cities start.

As each city is equipped, they replicate the model for every region, district and community in their city.

Every role in the movement is a serving role, not a title. Are there countries around me with nothing happening? I serve them until they are able to multiply on their own. Are their cities near me that have nothing? I serve them and help them get started.

My Bible, my prayers, my eyes and my heart drive me and not my title.

This journey towards every country, every city, every community (every corner, every church, etc.) is continuing as the Lord leads and raises up faithful workers for His harvest field.


The Heart of the Movement The Heart of the sports movement is the not‐negotiable foundation that drives every decision and every action.

What we do

Proclaim the Gospel

Make Disciples

Obey the Bible

Where we serve

In and through the Local Church

In and through Sport

In every country and every city

How we do it

We live as servants

We work in teams

We partner


What we do: Proclaim the Gospel

1. We know, live, and tell the Gospel in the world of sport and through the universal language of sport (Colossians 1:6).

2. The Gospel is the powerful good news of salvation (Romans 1:16) that motivates us to live ‘life to the full’ now (John 10:10) and gives hope for eternity (Ephesians 1:13‐14, Philippians 3:20‐21).

3. All of us are messengers of the Gospel and need to go with boldness and confidence in God (Philippians 1:27‐28, Acts 19:8). We are called to be vulnerable and humble, watching and listening for the responsive person of peace (Luke 10:5‐7, Philippians 2:3‐4).

Go deeper ‐ Bible references

Colossians 1:6, Romans 1:16, John 10:10, Ephesians 1:13‐14, Philippians 3:20‐21, Philippians 1:27‐28, Acts 19:8, Matthew 9‐10, Luke 10, Philippians 2:3‐4, Hebrews 4:12


What we do: Make Disciples

1. We are commanded by Jesus to go and make disciples who desire to follow Him in all of life and invest in the lives of others so that they also become disciples who make disciples (Matthew 28:18‐20, 2 Timothy 2:2).

2. Disciple making teaches others to love and obey all that Jesus commanded (1 John 2:3‐6).

3. Disciple making is best when it is intentional and relational, and often begins before someone becomes a follower of Christ (Philippians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:2‐8).


Matthew 28:18‐20, 2 Timothy 2:2, 1 John 2:3‐6, Philippians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:2‐8, Matthew 9:35‐10:1


What we do: Obey the Bible

1. Everything we need to know about God and His desire for our lives is in the Bible (2 Timothy 3:16).

2. We study, teach and preach the Bible and together discover what it says so that it shapes our attitudes, plans and actions (2 Timothy 4:2, Colossians 1:28).

3. God transforms us as we obey the Bible (2 Timothy 3:14‐17, 1 Thessalonians 4:1‐3, Colossians 1:9‐10).


2 Timothy 4:2, Colossians 1:28, 2 Timothy 3:14‐17, 1 Thessalonians 4:1‐3, Colossians 1:9‐10, Hebrews 1:1‐2a, Psalm 119:105, Hebrews 4:12


Where we serve: In and through the Local Church

1. The Church is at the center of what God is doing; his primary tool for mission ‐ the expression of the Gospel on earth (Matthew 16:18‐20, Ephesians 1:22‐23).

2. The Church is His unstoppable, universal body of believers who gather locally for encouragement and evangelism ‐ a fellowship and a force (Ephesians 1:18‐23, Ephesians 2:19‐22).

3. Sport provides a global, strategic opportunity for His Church to grow.

4. The local church needs to be inspired and equipped to embrace and nurture sports people of all levels of experience.


Matthew 16:18‐20, Ephesians 1:18‐23, Ephesians 2:19‐22, Ephesians 3:10, 1 Corinthians 12:26‐28, Matthew 16:18, John 17:22, Ephesians 4:11‐13, 1 Peter 2:9


Where we serve: In and through Sport

1. God’s design is that all of our lives, including play and sport, can be used to worship Him (Romans 12:1,2).

2. Sport is a universal language that motivates and connects people everywhere.

3. While God gives some people greater talent in sport, we all have the ability to enjoy sport. Sport is one way we can get to know ourselves and God better. It provides a unique opportunity for God to make us more like Him (Romans 12:1‐8).

Go deeper ‐ Bible reference

Romans 12:1‐8


Where we serve: In every country and every city

1. The whole world is the Lord’s and His church is to be made up of people from every country, city, and community for His glory (Psalms 24:1, Romans 14:11).

2. Jesus commissioned us to go into His world to make disciples. Multiplication happens when these disciples make disciples (Matthew 28:19‐20).

3. Mission through sport and to athletes can connect with every culture and setting. It can be adapted to meet the needs of individuals and communities (1 Corinthians 9:22‐26).


Psalms 24:1, Romans 14:11, Matthew 28:19‐20, 1 Corinthians 9:22‐26


How we do it: We live as servants

1. Jesus shows us the Kingdom perspective of greatness through humility and obedience to His Father (Ephesians 4:1‐2, Philippians 2:1‐11).

2. God calls us to put the interests of others first even though it runs against self‐seeking human nature (Mark 10:45, Philippians 2:2‐3).


Ephesians 4:1‐2, Philippians 2:1‐11, Mark 10:45, Matthew 20:25‐28, Luke 9:23


How we do it: We work in teams

1. God is a team, working in total unity and purpose, as expressed through the Trinity (Genesis 1:26, 2:18).

2. The Church is the body of Christ and it works best when common purpose, motivated by humility, unites all the parts (Romans 12:3‐8).

3. Diversity in the team (culture, roles, spiritual gifts, maturity, personality styles and talents), increases the strength of the team, the potential for growth and multiplication (1 Corinthians 12:12).


Genesis 1:26, Genesis 2:18, Romans 12:3‐8, 1 Corinthians 12:12


How we do it: We partner

1. Partnering involves mutual submission to achieve common goals larger than either person alone can achieve. It grows out of a mutual respect for Jesus (Ephesians 5:21).

2. Partnering seeks to bring people into the unity that God desires (John 17:21‐23).

3. No one‐person, church, denomination, organization can fulfill the Great Commission on their own. We need each other to fulfill Jesus’ plan (Ephesians 4:11‐16).

4. Partnering is difficult and needs perseverance. As each focus on serving the Lord, trust grows and partnering will develop from simple connections to complex collaboration (Ephesians 6:6‐7).


Psalm 133, John 17:21‐23, 1 Corinthians 12 and 13, Ephesians 4:11‐16, Ephesians 5:21, Ephesians 6:6‐7


The Ethos of the Movement There is a way we serve in the movement that seeks to live out practical virtues of the Kingdom.

We stand at an amazing stage of the sports movement journey as the multiplication of the task of making disciples in and through the world of sport is reaching every corner of the globe.

When you ask one of the pioneers of sports ministry about the journey, they will likely share their weaknesses and mistakes. You will discover that it has grown out of mistakes, weakness, humility and having to learn lessons again and again and again.

What are some of these lessons learnt? They are principles to reflect on. The numbers are just there to help as we discuss these issues.

Titles, position and roles

1. We don’t have or need titles, only roles and ways to serve people, places and tasks.

2. We mentor others and give up our roles to multiply and empower others (in continual rotation). We also stay around and serve those we have raised up.

3. We surround ourselves with people more talented than ourselves.

4. We see a clearer picture when we have a breadth of ages, cultures, geographical regions, women and men involved.

5. We do the ministry without expecting any reward or funds or entitlements (with the attitude of Luke 17:7‐10).

6. I understand that a large percentage of my role might involve things I don’t like doing.

7. We don’t need comfort, control, rigid structure, politics, procedures, highly established traditions, gatekeepers who have to approve what happens. We don’t operate on guilt, fear, contracts, pledges – we base everything on trust and relationship and work at it.


8. Our role is to help grow shared vision and ownership. We often rely on non‐experts and lay leaders.

9. We think in short steps or ‘phases’ but with a long‐term (20‐30 year) mindset.

Partnering

10. We are a movement and not an organization.

11. We share the same dream of the great commission and the heart of the movement.

12. Our partnering is built on relationships and trust. Relationships and teamwork are the foundation for everything else.

13. We understand that partnering together is messy.

14. Our spirit is Jesus’ Kingdom first. Not my way or my outcome first.

15. We believe in giving away before receiving.

16. We don’t run away from uncertainty or conflict.

17. We work towards seeking consensus more than winning the argument.

18. We value process more than an outcome at times.

19. We talk up the church and don’t talk down to the church.

20. We value as much personal communication as possible and not corporate (face to face ideally).

21. We are ‘bottom up’ realizing that the local disciple‐making leader is the most important role in the movement.

Open source and free for all

See open source explanation at the end of the Ethos.

22. We are an open source movement. We value inclusion and a collaborative process ABOVE quality as we believe it gives greater empowerment throughout the movement. In many cases it ends with a better outcome in more contexts because of this approach.

23. We all participate in the creation of tools and resources.


24. We always share and give away our best creativity.

25. The movement’s materials only show logos that are owned by everyone together.

26. Because we value open source we don’t want to charge within the movement for any resource or invoice partners for use of open source strategies (particularly when coming from another country).

Organizations and logos

27. We don’t come to the movement seeking recognition for ourselves, our agencies, our logos, our ideas and even our movement’s sports programs.

28. We value all partners as equal and with something to offer the whole body.

29. We don’t promote any organization’s materials. The movement isn’t a ‘market place’ for agencies who have resources.

30. No agency is entitled to bypass the process of serving, building trust and relationship no matter what their size or importance might be.

Security and photos

31. We are sensitive to the information age that we live in and the many partners that operate in challenging situations. Our decisions are based on what will affect others and not just on what we want or need.

32. We are cautious about what we share online. We don’t state the name of the movement and we avoid sharing pictures of people or events that might cause problems now or in the future.

33. We do not share photos of global meetings on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any website.

Some things that are surprising

34. Go slow at first to go faster later.

35. Focus on the few (or one) to win many.

36. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear and obey. Share only when and where people are ready to hear.


37. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained outsider.

38. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result.

39. Addition does not add up to multiplication.

40. The least likely people may be exactly the ones God is preparing.

41. Look for people of character, commitment, chemistry and only then competence.

42. Movements are counter‐intuitive. They do not fit management theory or organizational development.

43. Structure kills movements.


What does Open Source mean? In ReadySetGO the term ‘Open Source’ means:

1. It does not cost anything to access and use

All materials that are made are shared freely across the movement. The material has been created so that it can be accessed and used at no cost. That does not mean they are low quality. The resources are some of the best sports ministry tools in the world.

2. They have no copyright restriction

The materials are created by the movement to be free of any copyright restriction for you to use. The materials cannot be sold or used for commercial purposes. (NOTE: In the case of music and some video and photos that have been purchased from websites cannot be reused or copied into other productions.)

3. In many cases they can be used as a basis for new materials

Often the written materials are given in a form that will allow you to improve and adapt the materials for your context. This can only be done in line with the Heart of the Movement and the Ethos. We often use file formats like Microsoft WORD to make it easier to translate or edit.

4. They belong to everyone in the Movement

The materials are created for the movement and ‘belong’ to everyone in the movement.

5. They are free of organizations logos and branding

To help everyone, all the ReadySetGO materials are created with no church, denomination or agency logos. These groups contribute a lot of time, money and energy into resources and then donate them to the movement without their name on the resource. The purpose is to highlight that these belong to everyone and not just one group.


What will change and why? There are some things that are changing as we take the next step of the journey of the sports movement together.

The following five points are the major areas and changes that are being explored. Please read them and then feedback your thoughts and suggestions. Please pray about all these things:

1 Why do we need change?

The changes are designed to enable greater multiplication of disciple‐making and to be able to better serve in and through the church.

2 ReadySetGO ReadySetGO is a way to explain the whole movement in simple terms.

3 Priority on translation & ReadySetGO tools

To help in multiplication the core training and tools of the movement need to be in many more languages. To help this, some refining and editing needs to happen.

4 New understanding on teams and mini‐regions

As the movement grows and multiplies, new types of teams and a new understanding of our roles are needed.

5 Implications once every country every city is realized

There will be changes in global meetings in the future. Greater responsibility will be on local, country and regional relationships to carry the vision of the movement.


Why do we need change? The Heart is easy to understand and powerful to communicate. However the structure and the strategy of the movement is quite complex.

Many parts of the movement have become quite complicated over time. We laugh at the number of acronyms – ACE, SSP, CYCAS, MR, MRC, BR, BRF, ISLS, ISLT, MSE, SRC‐C1, MTG, etc.

And this is just the beginning.

This is a movement that belongs to churches, sports people and local leaders. The complexity makes it harder to involve new people. As the movement spreads, the most important people communicating and training will be people we don’t know personally. They will be people who have been trained by trainers who were trained by trainers who some generations away may have been trained by you.

So why is it important to simplify the movement?

1. To make it easier for a local leader to access and understand all the resources and vision of the movement.

2. To enable greater growth and multiplication in a country, city or community.

3. To enable more decisions to be made at the local level.

4. To make it easier for translation into many more languages, which is a key for multiplication.

5. To be able to train better by streamlining the training processes across the movement and bringing the best training tools and thinking together.

6. To have greater impact across the sports continuum (in and through sport) by collaborating better across all the proclamation and disciple‐making strategies (now called GO Strategies). Everything will help to mobilize every sports leader to GO, rather than simply filling a role in a structure.


Roles that Serve Disciple-making The main reason for making changes is to re‐emphasize the main purpose of the movement, which is to make disciples in and through the world of sport.

This purpose has never changed, but structures and practices can leave people so busy with activity that there is no time left to make disciples.

The kinds of changes being discussed are simply to help you think through what needs to happen at the mini‐region, country, city and community level.

Nothing is being imposed on anyone. This is a movement wide discussion on what will help us all to become more effective disciple‐makers in obedience to Jesus’ call. How these issues are implemented is a local decision based on what is best and when.

We will ask ourselves:

How have things been in the past and what should they look like now?

Where has our time and energy been focused and where would be best to focus now?

How do we implement a vision of “not top down, but bottom only”?

How do we move from a position to a role?

How do we move from ministry activity to disciple‐making?

How do we move from global strategy to local action?


As simple as Ready Set and GO From November 2015, the whole of the sports movement will be able to be explained in three simple words ‐ Ready, Set and GO.

Ready, Set and GO are three simple words that describe the start of a running race. Over several years of prayer, work and discussion, we see that these 3 words carry the whole strategy of the sports movement.

One Race

A race is run when the runners turn up at the starting blocks. They move into a starting position. They launch into the race appropriately at the starter’s signal and run down the track to the finish line according to the rules of athletics. It might be 100 meters, 400 meters, 42 kilometers, with hurdles, a relay race with other runners or something else. Whatever the race, the runner will do it thousands of times in practice and hundreds of times in competition, each time seeking to improve their race.

Ready

In the sports movement, the race is ready when you have gathered people together and given them a vision to join the ‘race’. This will involve prayer, encouraging partnering, researching needs and vision sharing. Once they are envisioned, they are ready.

Set

Set is the stage in the race to train and equip people in the Heart of the Movement. The outcome is a group of runners with their hearts set on making disciples in and through the world of sport.

GO!

GO is the time to empower people to GO and make disciples using one or more of the strategies of the movement.


How ReadySetGO helps ReadySetGO puts the emphasis onto the ‘GO and make disciples’. It helps the whole movement work as one team towards this outcome.

When the Strategic Programs were set up in 2003, it was a way to help develop every part of the sports movement. This has been an extremely successful process. When all the parts of the movement work together, you see tremendous results.

There has been a tendency to see the parts move apart from each other into what we call ‘silos’. Partly because of the complexity and size of the movement, it is easy for someone to focus in their area and not know what is happening in another area.

ReadySetGO is a way to put the focus back onto the combined purpose of making disciples. Each strategic program has a part to play in this, and to do it in harmony with each other.

Instead of having to explain to someone each Strategic Program, what they do, how they operate, what tools they have, etc., we can explain the movement in 30 seconds.

ReadySetGO in 30 seconds

The sports movement here in our city wants to serve the vision of the church to make disciples. We are ready to partner and gather people together to give them a vision of how sport is one of the best ways for making disciples. We can get them set with a heart for the gospel, for discipling, for the Bible and more. We then empower them to GO and make disciples using one of the effective sports strategies that have been developed and shared freely across the world.

This is just a taste of how easy it is to explain the sports movement and how the focus moves from explaining a complex structure to empowering local disciple‐making. Try making up a version in your language that suits your context.


ReadySetGO Tools The sports movement now has thousands of ministry tools, documents, videos, training sessions and more. ReadySetGO will help us simplify the tools too.

Over the coming 12 months, we are all helping to consolidate, refine and edit all the most important written, video and audio resources of the sports movement.

We aim to have a set of training tools, GO strategy tools and videos that are as short, simple and useable as possible and then have them translated initially into 30 languages.

Why?

1. Without translation, multiplication cannot happen in many cities and communities.

2. There are too many resources now to translate them all.

3. The resources are good, but have been developed over many years. This has led to considerable overlap in some areas and in other areas it is time for an update.

4. In training, several strategic programs have developed excellent materials, but they would be even better if they were brought together into a simple consolidated training kit.

5. There are GO strategies for children, youth, communities, camps, chaplains, academies, Action sports, all‐ability athletes, etc. (see longer list later in this handbook). By creating a simple toolbox of all the GO strategies it will make them easier to understand, easier to access the resources and easier to implement any of these strategies.


New understanding on teams This new season of multiplication will have a lot of implications on how teams and strategic programs operate, and what they look like.

The area of teams is being discussed a lot across the movement and much is yet to be discovered. In this handbook we are not giving any suggestions yet on how teams might need to change in the next season of the sports movement.

The questions being discussed widely, and ones you might like to discuss with your city or country team are:

What is the most helpful way to structure our team to serve the multiplication of disciple‐making and disciple‐makers?

How do we help our teams to make other teams, so creating a multiplying effect towards every community?

With the focus of ReadySetGO being a 3 stage process towards seeing people GO and make disciples, how do we help move our strategic program‐focused thinking towards the 3‐stage approach? How do we have these stages work together in a simple flow?

The results of these discussions will be brought together and shared across the movement from November 2015.


So What Happens to Mini-Regions? This movement is driven by what is needed locally. So the local needs drive the way the movement multiplies.

This is an upside down movement. The global is the least important and the local is the most important. Any global gathering or work is driven by local outcomes. The better the movement multiplies, the less global meetings will be needed.

The same is true at the Big Region and Mini Region level. The more successful a mini‐region is, the less it will be needed in the future.

Make good decisions as a Big Region and Mini Region team based on the principles outlined here:

That the task of the Big Region or Mini Region is to serve every country in their region. Then it is to support these countries to take responsibility to do the same for every city in their country.

This is how these roles are seen as servant roles.

However once the work has grown enough to make the big region and mini region roles less necessary, there is still the need to encourage the sports movement body to pray for each other, carry each other burdens and help in times of need.

We never lose the responsibility to love and serve each other. How we do it will vary depending on the need. This is a relational movement, so the relationships and trust will help you make good decisions.

You will never cease to have a role to play in this movement. The more it multiplies, the more serving roles are needed.


What if? Implications for every community

The further the movement multiplies towards every city and every community, the less ‘control’ we have over it. What do we need to consider now in the light of this?

As we multiply more and more, we will need to be prepared for some changes in how things happen. Consider these possibilities by yourself and also in your team discussions:

Questions to explore

1. What if the people training the movement in a city were trained by someone who was trained by someone who was trained by you? What would you need to do in your training to help someone 4 ‘generations’ away from you to stay true to the Heart of the Movement?

2. In the situation listed above, when in passing from generation to generation to generation, complex ideas get lost (like in Chinese Whispers game), what would be the simple most important message you would want to pass on about sports that would keep being passed on?

3. What if wars or epidemics (like Ebola) closed borders and stopped people from being able to travel in the future? How would you prepare country, city or local teams to continue multiplying without any help from outside?

4. What if key leaders died or left the country? How would you help a team to think now to prepare for continually raising up new leaders and continuing to multiply?

5. When every city and thousands of communities are involved in your country, how important is a mini‐region, big region or global role then? How would they be needed?

6. What would happen if there were no global meetings? What would you need to do differently in your country or region?


Work to be done There is a lot of work to be done. There is something for everyone to do. ReadySetGO is a movement‐wide initiative.

This table summarizes a few of the tasks needed. This is not the total list. Your facilitators will be able to help with greater detail:

1 Personal reflection and preparation

Please pray through all the things you read in this document. Explore how God would have you serve the multiplication of His work of making disciples in and through the world of sport.

2 Strategic program tasks

1. Asset Map 2. New or edited resources 3. Exploring SP role in ReadySetGO

3 Regional Tasks 1. Discussion on ReadySetGO 2. Choose the list of priority languages 3. Find translators

4 Tool‐making tasks and needs

1. Completing ReadySetGO Tools Framework 2. Translation team 3. Video & Photo needs

5 ReadySetGO Timeline

Timeline from November 2014 onwards


Strategic Program Tasks Each strategic program has the task of looking at their whole library of resources, putting them into an Asset Map and then prioritizing their importance.

Why?

In ReadySetGO we will have to make a choice on what documents and resources are widely translated. This is a big task when we currently have several thousand resources.

As we work towards simplifying everything, we need to know what is most important to each strategic program. What is most current, highest priority, etc.? The Asset Map will give a complete picture of the movement as it is today to help us make good decisions for the future.

How to choose? The choice will be based on what will be most helpful to achieving the purpose of the movement – to make disciples in and through the world of sport.

Part of the process towards creating the final list of the most resources

1. Asset Map

We are wanting to gather a complete picture of the following items for your strategic program resources. There is a template document to help gather the information:

1. Key Ideas and ‘SP DNA’ (that you don’t want to lose) 2. Training Sessions 3. Written Materials (curricula, manuals, etc.) 4. Audio Visual Tools 5. Other (anything that doesn’t fit other columns) 6. Items that are being worked on


2. New or edited resources

Following on from the Asset Map is the possibility that some new resources need to be created or existing resources could be edited or refined.

We know that a good pattern for any written resource is to try and create it in the following way:

1. OVERVIEW ‐ Create a summary that explains enough of the material that someone could do it (1 page or less).

2. COMPLETE TOOL ‐ Create the material in 3‐10 pages. Work hard to make the wording and concept simple, universal and principle driven (rather than completely prescriptive or telling people exactly what to do)

3. ADVANCED READING ‐ If needed, create an advanced version if there needs to be a large amount of background material.

3. Exploring SP role in ReadySetGO

There will be a need to explore how every strategic program (globally and in a region) can serve the ReadySetGO process.

Ready Set and GO are not 3 new strategic programs, they are 3 parts of one purpose of making disciples in every country, city and community.

The strategic programs are like the specialized servants that can serve in all these 3 parts.


Regional Tasks There is a greater importance on serving every community in ReadySetGO. This puts a big focus on how regions (big regions and mini regions) enable this to happen.

1. Discussion on ReadySetGO

Each region needs to understand this next stage of the sports movement journey well to know what to communicate now and what can wait until after November 2015.

In many ways, the change is not a big change at the local level. Leaders will continue being trained and continue to implement sports strategies.

However, it does mean seeing how best to empower each country and then each city with the vision and tools for multiplication. ReadySetGO will help any new city and help existing cities to grow new teams.

2. Choose the list of priority languages

As regions you will need to pray, think and strategize what the priority languages are to best multiply disciple‐making across the region. Ask questions like:

1. Are there places that have not started because we have never had resources in their language?

2. What are the biggest languages in our region? 3. What languages have training teams ready to go now? 4. What languages would be most strategic to translate in 2015

and what could wait until 2016 or 2017?

3. Find translators

We will need a translation facilitator and a translation checker for every language. If possible, find additional people for these teams to help. They will need to have the capacity to give a lot of time over the next 12 months.


ReadySetGO Equipping Framework

READY tools to help research, gathering and envision

OUTCOME ENVISIONING MATERIALS AND SESSIONS OTHER TOOLS

To have a group of envisioned leaders ready to participate.

Look and listen process Survey questions New printed brochure is being

developed to help in the envisioning process and to

explain ReadySetGO

Introduction to the Vision and Mission (90 minute session)

Introduction to the Heart (90 minute session)

SET tools to train and equip in the Heart of the Movement

OUTCOME CORE TRAINING SESSIONS ADDITIONAL TRAINING MATERIALS (including videos and written materials)

To grow servant leaders with Biblical understanding, godly character and practical skills to be able to GO and make disciples.

1 Proclaim the Gospel

2 Make Disciples

All these additional sessions that go deeper in the heart of the movement will be added

once the Asset Map is complete.

3 Obey the Bible

4 In and through the Local Church

5 In and through Sport

6 In every country and every city

7 We live as servants

8 We work in teams

9 We partner


GO tools to empower leaders to GO and make disciples

OUTCOME Core ways to go and make disciples EMPOWERING TO GO SESSIONS OTHER TOOLS

Empowered leaders GOing into their community and making disciples.

1. In the world of sport

Introduction to serving people in the world of sports (90 mins)

Training and doing the catalytic and disciple‐making strategies below.

Manuals, videos and training kit for all the strategies listed below.

2. Through the world of sport

Introduction to ways that sport can serve the world (90 mins)

GO STRATEGIES

Ways to GO and make disciples in and through sport

Spectator and leisure sports Serious player and high profile sports

Spectator Novice Leisure Player Player Elite High Profile

MENTORING AND CHAPLAINCY

UBABALO BibleMAX

YOUTH/KIDS SPORTS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SPORTS CAMPS ACADEMIES VALUE INTEGRATED TRAINING

FESTIVALS GLOBAL COMMUNITY GAMES

COMMUNITY CUP SERVICE CENTERS

GUEST EVENTS (as spectators) GUEST EVENTS (as athletes) SENDING AND RECEIVING

BIG SCREEN EVENTS MAJOR SPORTS EVENT ACTIVITIES


Go Strategies The following is the draft list of GO Strategies for which resources are being developed or refined:

1. Governing Bodies of Sport 2. High Profile Athletes 3. Sports Centers 4. Coaches and Teachers 5. Sports Camps 6. Clubs and Teams 7. Academies 8. All Abilities Sports 9. Proclamation – Sending and Receiving Teams 10. Chaplaincy 11. Action Sports 12. Church Services 13. Public Sports Screens 14. Resource Distribution 15. Sports Camps (MSE) 16. Sports Festivals 17. Community Cup 18. KidsGames 19. FamilyGames 20. TeenGames 21. EdgeGames 22. Coaching for Life 23. Ubabalo Whole Life Coaching 24. Ubabalo Kids 25. Youth Sports Leadership Development 26. Max7 Kids


Translation We are building a team of translators and translation facilitators to help see the ReadySetGO tools in at least 30 languages in the next 12 months.

We are wanting to help every major language have the full set of tools available from November 2015. This is a very big task and will require everyone to help.

We are gathering the list of languages for which there is a priority need and which have translators able to serve. Please volunteer or find volunteers who can carry this role for your language or for languages in your region.

The Process

1. By early 2015 we will finalize the languages and the people who can serve those languages. We need a minimum of two people to serve each language, though the preference would be for more.

2. We have access to some of the world’s most advanced translation software. This doesn’t take the place of human translators and language checkers, but does have the ability to learn from our translation team and then translate documents faster and better over time. You will be surprised how much help this will be.

3. By May 2015, all the ReadySetGO tools will be completed and ready in English.

4. Around that time, the translation team will kick into action with approximately 40 key tools we want to translate.

5. With the help of the computer software, we will then start a process of translation and checking for all these tools.

What do you need to do?

The Big Regions will help choose the languages and the team to help serve the languages from their Big Region. Please talk with others in your Big Region to volunteer or suggest someone who could assist.


Video and Photos The ReadySetGO tools have been written by leaders all over the world. We want to be able to visualize them with images from around the world.

Please look at the video and photo instructions below to participate in creating the ReadySetGO tools. Please try and gather at least 2‐3 good photos and a couple of videos from your city. Choose the best to upload.

Email [email protected] for any help.

What we Need from Every Country

1. Photos or video of people doing the ‘ready, set, go’ actions in real life from all around the world.

Focus on individuals doing this in your location and ministry. It can be on any type of track, field, beach or ground. We want as many places and types of runners, ages and styles as possible. For example:

2. Photo and video of your sport ministry in action (see ‘how to get best video and photo).

3. Interviews with people about what ministry they are doing. We want to feature all the GO Strategies, hear about how any of the Heart of the Movement values are being lived out in your sports ministry.


How to Take Better Video and Photos Here are some ideas on how to improve your photos and videos.

1. Hold the camera steady (two hands at least, try and make a third point of contact if not using a tripod to keep the camera steady).

2. Try and get a variety of different shots. Try the following ideas:

Wide shot – showing the whole scene

Group shot – close up on a group of people

Individual faces and expressions – filming emotion is great. Smiles, frustration (like when missing a goal), thinking, crying with someone, laughter, etc.

From an interesting angle – film from grass level or from above or close to a ball or close up on hands holding a bat.

3. When filming sport action, try and follow people and not the ball, we want to see people on film!

4. If recording sound (i.e. an interview), make sure you record in a quiet place. Recording on to a smart phone with it in the pocket of the person being filmed can work while videoing. This then needs to be edited together or both uploaded so someone else can edit.

5. When filming children, have the camera at the same height as their eyes. It is better than looking down at the child.

Uploading your Photos and Video

1. When sending in any audio or video, it really helps if we know which event it is from and where it was filmed. If possible change the filename to say YourCountry‐City‐Event‐Year. For example “India‐Chennai‐SportsCamp‐2014”.

2. Also make sure that you have permission to share any photos and videos you do.) The higher quality you can give us the better!

3. Send photos to [email protected] and also use this email to get instructions on how and where to upload video.

preparing for readysetgo handbook (nov 2014)

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