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By Ralph Drollinge r newly appointed global sports consultant for Cooperative Atlanta Conference Approaches Services International, DeVoss Each year Sports Outreach will be helping to link sports America organi zes a 3-day conresources- including athletes, ference that enables people who coaches, volunteers, and organiare working in sports mini stries zations-with people who like across the country to get togethsports and need to know about er to discuss strategy, make the love of Jesus Christ. plans, and share DeVoss has already ideas. This year' s involved in sports been conference will ministries in Central be held from America, where he April 29 to May worked with Expos I in Marietta, pitcher John Wetteland; Georgia. in South Korea, where he Speakers for the taught seminars on how convention to conduct sports clinics; include widely in Kazakhstan (a repubknown evangelist lic of the Confederation Luis Palau and of Independent States), Campus Crusade where he conducted footpresident Bill ball and baseball clinics; Bright. If you are inter- 1 - - - - - - - - - i and in Kentucky, where he played college baseested in using ball. sports as a minAnd now the bridgeistry tool through building continues as DeVoss special events, through a church, uses the uni versal language of through traveling teams, through sports to address the uni versal colleges, or through women' s need of salvation in Jesus Christ. sports, this conference can give For information on sports minyou plenty of ideas. istl)' opportunities, write to For more information about Steve DeVoss this conference, coli/act Cooperative Se1vices lnt'l Sports Outreach America PO Box6841 1610 Elizabeth Street Richmond, VA 23230-0767 Pasadena, CA 91104 Phone: 8/8-398-2378 • Sports Ministry Fax: 818-398-2471
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Global Sports Consultant From Central America to South Korea, from Kazakhstan to Kentucky, Steve DeVoss has discovered that "sports is a common denominator throughout the world. II builds bridges." Now DeVoss, a Murray State University alumnus, will be building bridges between sports ministries and the people they help around the world. As the
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Last fall we presented a list of many ministries that are using sports as a way of helping people and of spreading the gospel. We want to continue to update that list and to add new efforts to the growing list of "Teams to Watch." If you know of one we have not listed, let us know. Following are some corrected addresses as well as other ministries that were not listed in that original group.
Overseas Teams News Release Basketball 7157 Townsend Drive Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 Contact: Steve Sorenson Phone: 303-470-0763 Discipleship Champions for Christ PO Box 26341 Austin, TX 78755-0341 Phone: 512-338-0433 Fax: 512-338-0451 Motor Racing Motorsports Ministries PO Box 2737 Rohnert Park, CA 94927 Phone: 707-586-3834
• MRO Moves Into the Water Motor Racing Outreach, which is a support ministry for the drivers and crew members on the NASCA R circuit, is now offering its assistance to the Intern ational Outboard Grand Prix (IOGP) circuit. Handling this new venture in helping people will be Ron and Jackie Pegram of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In addition to giving the IOGP drivers and team members an opportunity to have a Sunday worship service, the Pegrams will also be available to lead Bible study groups and to offer counseling for those who desire it. For info rmation about either MRO or its new JOCP ow reach, write to: Max Helton Smith TowedSuire 336 Highway 29 North Harrisburg, NC 28075
S P ORTS SPECTRUM • M ARCH/APR IL 1993
• HMI Ventures South Hockey Ministries International is now truly international. Having recently opened a US office, this ministry that works with hockey players through camps, now has offices in both Quebec and llli nois. For information about the efforts of HMI, including its sched ule of camps for 1993, write to either the Canadian or the US address:
Canada Don Liesemer PO Box36 Beaconsfield, Quebec Canada, H9W 5T6
us Mark Kapsalis 669 Hillside Avenue Elmh urst, IL 60126