We would like to invite you to our first Sports Chaplaincy Seminar in our leader up to the Commonwealth Games.

The seminar on Friday 22nd July at Ashmore Uniting Church 144 Cotlew Street, Ashmore 6.00pm-9.00. There will be an intermission for light refreshments.

There is no cost for the seminar.

Our guest speaker is Steve Stubbings, National Ministry director for Sports Chaplaincy Australia. Steve is based at their head offices at Docklands in Melbourne.

This seminar is an introduction to Sports Chaplaincy and is their Level 1 Community Sports Chaplaincy Certificate (CBT & CSC L1) This is a free introduction to Community Sports chaplaincy which helps you understand the role and function of a community sports chaplain.  The training is 2.5 hours and you will learn:

*   Who SCA is

*   What a sports chaplain is and what they do

*   What qualities are required

*   The need, opportunity and response

*   The 2 critical success factors of getting sports chaplaincy right Imagine what your local community would look like with a chaplain serving in every sports club – that footy, tennis, cricket and netball club around the corner with a man or woman serving Christ wholeheartedly as a chaplain?

This 2.5 hour FREE course (Community Sports Chaplaincy Certificate Level 1) is for anyone contemplating sports chaplaincy or interested in helping it grow in their sport or community.

Register with your details to info@beyondgoldgc.com.au

Here’s what Steve says about himself….

Steve is a 60 year old Jesus follower who finds joy in diversity and change. He has a wife (Sue) whom he remains passionately in love with after 37 years of marriage, and they have four children, three “children-in-law”, and 3 grandchildren.

Steve is an accredited Baptist minister who is also a qualified architect. He served as a sports chaplain to the Penrith Panthers for 17 years and for a period was co-ordinating Sports Chaplaincy Australia’s network in NSW. In 2013 he relocated to Melbourne to be a part of SCA’s national team. His role is National Ministry Development Director, which has a priority of working with small groups of enthusiastic people to place chaplains in local and regional sporting communities across Australia. A major component of that goal is to link local churches with local sporting communities for mutual benefit. He’s also currently the training coordinator. Check out our website: www.sportschaplaincy.com.au.

Up until his move to Victoria, Steve was part of the leadership team of a missional faith community called Limetree that was partnering with God and the people of the Narellan area (SW Sydney) to do little bits of kingdom stuff where they could. He and Sue now part of a small Baptist church near his home in Heidelberg that is engaging with a very diverse local community. He believes that God’s calling on his life is to participate in connecting the church to the wider community in ways that make most sense to that wider community. Hence sports chaplaincy.

For several years he gave the rugby league wrap on Sydney’s Hope 103.2 radio station of a Monday morning. He believes that he has a great face for radio. It’s not helped by the ponytail. However, he is also a Collingwood supporter, and along with a couple of missing teeth, it works for Aussie rules!

Oh – and his interests – apart from Jesus, and church / community connections – are family, sport, really good and strong coffee, sport, Lego (yes, Lego), reading (particularly fantasy novels), some of the television shows on the Lifestyle Channel (provided there’s no sport on), and ….. sport (which he acknowledges is his actual religion, because his faith is determinedly not so).