Tournaments
Big Shot Cricket – Golf Day
Big Shot Cricket are holding a Golf Day on May 9th.
Check out the flyer for more details.
More Than Gold Medals & Trophies
More Than Gold Medals & Trophies – Brilliant to make your events that extra bit special and remain in the memory every time the winners see their medals and trophies. For tournaments, festivals and fun events.
Medals
Special Gold, Silver & Bronze Medals with the More Than Gold logo in the centre and matching Gold, Silver & Bronze lanyards with the medals.
Cost £1.75 each
Trophies
Gold 5” with More Than Gold logo centre £7.50
Gold 6” with More Than Gold logo centre £8.00
Gold 7” with More Than Gold logo centre £8.50
Engraved plates on the front if required £3.25 each
Delivery Costs
Up to 10KG by Courier £8.50 (Approx 10 Trophies & 200 medals or 300 Medals max)
Up to 25KG by Courier £11.50 (approx 25 Trophies & 500 medals or 800 medals max)
Over 25KG on application
Delivery target 10 working days
Orders by email to:
Mark Blythe mark@mccfc.org.uk
By post to: Mark Blythe, 1 Merton Way, West Molesey, Surrey KT8 1PG
Cheques payable to “Sportsforce International Ltd” in full please.
Any questions do contact by email preferably or call Mark on 07885 778501
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Tournaments
Outreach Tournaments – A guideline
What? A sport or leisure tournament designed to be part of a church’s outreach strategy.
Why? To reach the local community for Christ by staging well organised fun events.
Where? The type of activity will often determine where the event will take place. Events like cards evenings, quizzes etc can be held on Church premises or in secular locations. Sometimes secular locations can be less threatening to non-believers.
When? Before approaching your chosen site owner for permission make two checks:
a) Make sure all your key personnel are available on your chosen date, there’s no point booking a date to then find that half your organising team are away on holiday!
b) Check that the date doesn’t clash with another major event. You may struggle to attract people to a sports quiz on the same night as an England International or if the local team is playing at home.
How? What we all want to know, how do we stage an outreach tournament? Firstly by setting up a team, we call them a Community Sports Team (CST). To prevent burn out and disaster we recommend joining forces with other people and other Churches – the success of the event is far more important than who is in charge! Checkout www.worldsportministries.org to see how to set up a CST and for further details about event management.
Evangelism? That word that excites some and strikes fear into others! Decide at the outset what the aims of your event are. Options include:
- Bronze: introducing your Church/Churches to the community by staging a fun event but with no Gospel message at all, aims are to develop awareness and friendships
- Silver: have Christian literature available and reference to other Church activities
- Gold: have a speaker with a Christian message
Evangelism Tips: Don’t go Gold without letting people know what they are coming to, ie warn them that there will be a Christian talk. Do the message before the end, create a break during the event otherwise folks will go home and not hear the Good News. Don’t make the message too long. Encourage the Speaker to participate in the activity so people get to know them before the talk.
Health & Safety – boring but essential! Ask around to see who is First Aid qualified at their work then invite them to be your 1st Aider at the event. For larger sporting events you may wish to book St Johns, the Red Cross or other First Aid businesses to be present – they usually need plenty of notice, ie over 6 months. Check age categories relevant to the activity ie Children should not play football against others 2 or more years older than them.
Scheduling: Ensure you finish at or before the published time. Build some gaps/catch up times into the schedule. Start the set up earlier than you think you need to and invite more helpers than you think you need. It’s good to be relaxed and ready when people turn up and they often arrive early!
Food: If appropriate including food in an event can break down barriers and create great opportunities to chat with people.
Support: The UK Sports Ministry organisations stage large and small tournaments all the time and they are available to support you. Check out www.uksportsministries.org and contact the sports ministry of your choice.
Actions: Define your reason for staging a tournament
Invite members of your and other local churches to form a Community Sports Team (CST) to arrange the event. Email cst@worldsportministries.org for info
Empower the team to run with an event of their choice
Ensure the team and the event is covered with prayer support.
Ask the team to produce a budget straight away
Download useful items from the More Than Gold website
Purchase special More Than Gold Medals and Trophies from the Resources page of this website.
Contact Mark Blythe on mark@mccfc.org.uk with specific questions
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National Christian Cricket Festival
The National Christian Cricket Festival is run by World Sport Ministries (www.worldsportministries.com) and for 2012 will be held at Keynsham with accommodation arranged at nearby Bristol.
The event is for Church based teams and comprises an 8-A-Side Competition on Sunday 10th June for the Festival Cup. There will also be games arranged on Saturday 9th June for teams who want to stay over and make a weekend of it.
Roehampton Community Church from West London won the first Festival in 2009, beating Gospel Hall Church from Bristol in the final. They retained their trophy in 2010 too, but last year in 2011 All Nations from Bristol won to stop them making the hat-trick!
All teams must represent a Church or Christian organisation and an appropriate Christian message is shared during the lunchtime break.
Contact info@worldsportministries.com for more information and details of this year’s event. Of course all matches will be completed in time to watch the football Euro Championships in the evening!
This is great fun and competitive event for players of all ability levels.
Spectators welcome.
The London Churches Football Tournament
This fabulous tournament is now in it’s 8th year. The Olympics have meant a change in venue from the famous Regent’s Park and for 2012 we will be staging the tournament at the Soccerdome by the O2.
The event will be held on Bank Holiday Monday 7th May 2012.
The event is provided for Church based teams by Ambassadors in Sport, Kick London, All Souls Church, Trinity Church Islington and Founders ‘Church on the Corner’. It is a 6-a-side Men only competition held on 3G Astroturf.
Due to the change in venue and lack of space compared to Regent’s Park, sadly this year there are NO youth or Ladies categories. We hope to restart these categories next year.
All teams must represent a Church and entry is on a first come first served basis so make contact soon. Last year 11 Church teams missed out because they were too late to enter!
Contact Mark Blythe on mark@mccfc.org.uk
The National Christian Football Festival
This is a fabulous football festival for church based teams from all over the UK. Teams enter from Sunderland to Stockport, from Essex to Birmingham and from Bristol to Surrey, a great mix of sides playing with great spirit and skill. The Festival has been running for over 10 years now!
The 2012 Festival has a new venue and is a two day 11-a-side tournament on grass at Loughborough and will be on 14-15 July. Entry Form here to download and apply.
The 2011 festival had a 5-a-side tournament on day one at Goals Bristol and was followed by an 11-a-side comp the next day at the Frys Club, Keynsham on grass. Eden Hattersley won the 5-a-side tournament with Potters House Church coming second. Bethany Baptist Church from Wales won the Fairplay Trophy. Jared Dickenson of Cheam was the Player of the day.
In the 11-a-side the next day Bristol Sanctuary pipped Cheam Baptist (Surrey) 1-0 in the final. Molesey Community Church won the fairplay trophy and Otis Thomas from Eden Openshaw was player of the Festival.
Contact Ambassadors in Sport by emailing Festival Co-ordinator Mark Blythe on mark@mccfc.org.uk for further information.
Accomm Booking form Shire Sports 2012
11s Player of the Festival Otis Thomas
11s Winners Bristol Sanctuary
Fair Play Trophy Winners Molesey Community Church
Player of Fest 5s Jared Dickenson Cheam