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Program

Wed 18th Thurs 19th Fri 20th Sat 21st Sun 22nd Mon 23rd

7.00am Breakfast

8.00am Devotions (all together)

9.00am 1 Opening Plenary

SP Time Heart Writers

AV Team

City Teams InSport Team Heart Writers

AV Team


AV Team

Big Region Meeting

ReadySetGO Review

ReadySetGO Review

10.30am Break

11.00am 2 SP Time

Heart Writers AV Team

SP Time Heart Writers

AV Team


AV Team


AV Team

Big Region Meeting

ReadySetGO Review

ReadySetGO Review

12.30pm Lunch

2.00pm 3 SP Time



AV Team


AV Team


AV Team

Big Region Meeting

ReadySetGO Review

ReadySetGO Review

4.00pm Break

5.30pm 4 SP Time


City Teams Heart Writers

AV Team

Heart Values Presentations and feedback


AV Team

Big Region Meeting

ReadySetGO Review

ReadySetGO Review

7.00pm Dinner

Meeting with Dubai sports

teams

Meeting with Dubai pastors

IMPORTANT:

PLEASE NOTE that the elevators in the Gloria Hotel can be slow to

wait for. Please use the stairs or leave 10-15 minutes to arrive at any

meetings especially if in the main part of the hotel (9th-41st floors –

the dedicated conference elevators are quicker).

All meals on the 8th Floor at the La Terrasse Restaurant.

There is a pool and gym (8th floor) and sports facilities (small football

area and basketball) accessible from the 41st Floor.


Contents A Wonderful Moment .................................................................................................. 7

What will not change? ................................................................................................. 4

Making disciples who make disciples .................................................................... 5

Every city every community .................................................................................. 6

The Heart of the Movement ................................................................................. 7

What we do: Proclaim the Gospel ............................................................... 8

What we do: Make Disciples ......................................................................... 9

What we do: Obey the Bible ...................................................................... 10

Where we serve: In and through the Local Church ..................................... 11

Where we serve: In and through Sport ....................................................... 12

Where we serve: In every country and every city ....................................... 13

How we do it: We live as servants .............................................................. 14

How we do it: We work in teams ................................................................ 15

How we do it: We partner .......................................................................... 16

The Way we Serve Together ............................................................................... 17

What does Open Source mean? ................................................................. 21

What will change and why? ....................................................................................... 22

Why do we need change? ................................................................................... 23

Roles that Serve Disciple-making ........................................................................ 24

As simple as Ready Set and GO ........................................................................... 25

How ReadySetGO helps ...................................................................................... 26

ReadySetGO Tools .............................................................................................. 27

New understanding on teams ............................................................................. 28

So What Happens to Mini-Regions? ................................................................... 29

What if? Implications for every community ....................................................... 30

Work to be done ........................................................................................................ 31

Strategic Program Tasks...................................................................................... 32

Regional Tasks .................................................................................................... 34

ReadySetGO Equipping Framework .................................................................... 35

Go Strategies ...................................................................................................... 37

Translation .......................................................................................................... 38

Video and Photos ................................................................................................ 39

How to Take Better Video and Photos ................................................................ 40

The ABCDEF of Conflict Resolution

ReadySetGO Diagram

ReadySetGO Content Framework


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 Way we Serve Together (has been

called ‘the ethos’ in the past).

1 The Heart of the

Movement

9 core actions that have defined the

sports movement for 40 years.

2 The Way we Serve

Together

A number of hard-learned lessons

from many decades that help us

understand what works in a Kingdom-

minded partnering family.

There are two parts of the Heart that are of particular importance at

the moment:

Making disciples

Our purpose is to be a disciple and make

disciples of Jesus Christ in and through the

world of sport.

Every Country

Every City

Every Community

passionate to reach

into new places

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.


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.

We always desire and plan for our proclamation of the gospel to lead

to discipling and always our 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 facilitation 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.

This is a ‘bottom up’ movement driven by local sports leaders.

Even “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.

THE VISION STATEMENT

Making disciples in all nations for Christ

in and through the world of sport.

THE MISSION STATEMENT

Partnering to serve Christ’s Kingdom

in and through the world of sport.

THE HEART

What we do

Proclaim the Gospel

Make Disciples

Obey the Bible

Where we serve

In and through the Church

In and through Sport

In every country and every city

How we do it

We live as servants

We work in teams

By partnering


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 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 – a loving

and serving community living in obedience to the Bible. (Ephesians

1:18-23, Ephesians 2:19-22).

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

4. The 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 Way we Serve Together There is a way we serve in the movement that seeks to live out

practical virtues of the Kingdom.

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. Here are

some of those lessons. Think about how they apply to your team.

Leadership – more about serving, less about titles and position

We’ve discovered that leadership is about serving others and self-sacrifice,

just as Jesus modeled and explained. This will mean that there will often be

tasks that you need to do for the team that you don’t like doing. It means

focusing on others and not yourself. Our role is to grow a shared vision and

involve many people. Often the most important leaders will be volunteers

who have no qualifications. It is important to think in small steps and with

defined responsibilities, with a short, medium and long-term (20-30 year)

vision. Here are six ideas that you will see people try to live:

1. We don’t need titles and positions. We do want servant roles that

focus on people and places. We want tasks to do.

2. We realize that the local disciple-maker is the most important role in

the movement.

3. We actively mentor others and happily give up our roles to

reproduce and empower others. We also stay around as needed to

serve those we have raised up.

4. We like to grow our teams with people with more talent and ability

than ourselves. We are not threatened by the gifts of others.

5. We have a better understanding when we have women and men

involved and when there is a good mix of ages, cultures and

geographical regions represented.

6. We do the ministry without expecting any reward or funds or benefit

to us at all (with the attitude of Luke 17:7-10). We believe in giving

away before receiving.


Partnering – more about serving together, less about one person

We are a partnering movement and not a ‘normal’ organization. This

means that many churches, leaders, agencies and groups work together

and the movement is shared across all of them. What holds us together is

our commitment together to obey Jesus’ great commission and live by the

heart of the movement. Our partnering is built on relationships and trust.

No person, church or agency can bypass the foundation of trust and this

takes time. Eight ideas we have learnt on partnering:

7. We understand that partnering together is often complicated and

requires love and patience.

8. We seek Jesus’ Kingdom first, not ours. This also means we don’t

come to the movement seeking recognition for ourselves, our

agencies, our logos, our ideas and even our movement’s sports

programs. We come to serve the bigger Kingdom goals we discover

together.

9. We value all partners as equal and with something to offer the

whole body.

10. We work towards seeking consensus more than winning the

argument. We face uncertainty or conflict with love. Sometimes the

journey together is more important than achieving the final

outcome.

11. We always speak well of the church. It is Jesus’ body on earth.

12. We’re not operating on the basis of guilt, fear, contracts or pledges.

We avoid ungodly power and politics. We only create structures and

procedures that help people to serve effectively and willing to

change when needed.

13. We value as much personal communication as possible, and face to

face wherever possible, as this builds trust and reduces

misunderstanding.

14. Instead of having gatekeepers (‘powerful’ people who want to

control everything) we encourage teams to make decisions together.


Open source and free for all – it’s about doing it all as one

Even more than simply partnering, we are an ‘open-source’ movement.

This means that whatever we create and do in the movement is shared

freely with everyone else in the movement (see open source explanation at

the end of this section).

15. We expect everyone in the movement to be willing to be involved in

creating and sharing resources that serve and help the Kingdom. We

value a collaborative process, even if it seems to be harder or with

less quality. It empowers more people and gives greater input from

more perspectives.

16. We always share and give away our best creativity and ideas. We are

willing to give those things we value the most.

17. The movement’s materials are only labelled by the movement’s

logos. This is to indicate that they are owned by everyone together

and not by an individual, single church or agency.

18. Everything is freely given and freely received. We don’t want anyone

to charge money for the use of the movement’s resources or

strategies.

19. We don’t actively promote any organization’s materials. The

movement isn’t designed to be a ‘market place’ to distribute agency

materials.

Security and photos – our actions online affect others

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.

20. 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.

21. We do not share photos of global or regional meetings on Facebook,

Twitter, Instagram or any website as it can cause problems for many

people who are involved in the movement.


Some things that are surprising – some ideas to think about

22. We often need to go slow at first to go faster later.

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

24. Look for those people whose hearts Jesus has already prepared to

listen. As Jesus indicated in Matthew 10, there are people ready to

hear and also times when you need to move on to a new place. The

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

25. You will find that the hardest places will often yield the greatest

result.

26. Someone who is part of the movement and understands the heart

and way we live, will often produce more fruit than a highly skilled

and trained outsider.

27. Addition is not the same as multiplication. We believe that Jesus’

discipling model was one of multiplication, which means that the

focus is on making disciples who makes disciples who make disciples.

This reproduction model enables the fruit to multiply.

28. Look for people of godly character, long-term commitment, fit well

into the team (chemistry) and only then look at how skilled or

experienced they are (competence).

29. Movements of people are often counter-intuitive. They cannot

always be explained or helped by management theory.

30. Rigid structure and tradition that is not constantly refreshed by the

direction of the Holy Spirit and the Bible kill movements.

Keep relationship and trust strong

1. Keep praying for one another.

2. Work at learning what others are doing and walk in their steps. Look

out for opportunities to serve the other and connect others to

appropriate resources or people that will help them.

3. Continue open and transparent communication with no hidden

agendas and seek clarification when in doubt. Build strong

relationships that can take differences of opinion.


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

1 NO COST

It does not

cost any

money 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 NO

BARRIER

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 are not for sale or for selling to make

money. (NOTE: In the case of music and some

videos that use licensed material – there are some

copyright restrictions.)

3

CAN BE

ADDED

TO

Many

materials can

be added to

and improved

for your

context

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 and the Way we Serve

Together. We often use file formats like Microsoft

WORD to make it easier to translate or edit.

They belong to everyone in the Movement

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

everyone in the movement.

They are free of organizations logos and branding

To help everyone, all the ReadySetGO materials are created with no

church, denomination or agency logos. Many people, churches and

agencies contribute a lot of time, money and energy into creating

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 team 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 team 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

Tools, methods and materials to envision leaders on the Vision, Mission and Heart of ReadySetGO. These done in a variety of ways and for a variety of situations.

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

+ Trainer of trainers materials – developing the trainer and the training team


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.


The ABCDEF of Conflict Resolution It is inevitable that conflict will emerge as the movement grows.

We encourage that this be dealt with in love and relationship and

with the guiding principles of the Bible. Here are some thoughts to

help you start.

First read Ephesians 4:1-7 and humble ourselves before God.

A Acknowledge that we need help and be

open to the fact that you might be wrong

Allow God to open our eyes

Allow ourselves to be wrong

Allow others to show us our mistake

B Believe that God can help and be patient

and listen

Be confident (not defensive)

Be sincere (not flippant)

Be sensitive (not indifferent)

C Continually depend on God for help and

interpret through the lens of love

Consider others better than yourself

Consider how God sees us

Consider the bigger picture

D Decide to make an effort to understand

the conflicting issue

Decide to listen a lot

Decide to dialogue

Decide to change or apologize if needed

E Ensure the unity of the spirit through the

bond of peace

Embrace unity as essential - we are one body

Embrace unity as precious, bought at a price – it’s worth the effort

F

Fix your eyes on Christ and return to His

calling for the common vision for

partnering

Focus on what unites - love the Lord and love others

Focus on what’s required – go make disciples

Focus on what’s on the Father’s heart – be his ambassadors in every arena

Work at keep your relationships and trust strong at all times. This

will greatly assist when the inevitable conflict does happen.


ReadySetGO Diagram


ReadySetGO Resource Framework

ReadySetGO

Priority to Translate (up to 30 languages

for the content in each column) Other

Supporting

documents,

trainings and

Curriculum

Supporting

media from

agencies (no

logo) and

movement Explanatory

Document

Introductory

Training Media

Re

ady

Listening & prayer strategy

Vision/mission

Heart

The Way we Serve Together

How to use and contextualize ReadySetGO including the recommended pathways

Set

Gospel

Disciples

Bible

Church

Sport

Every Country Every City

Teams

Partner

Servants

Trainer of Trainers

‘How to’ skills

GO

11 sports world strategies

7 strategies surrounding major events

9 community, youth and children’s strategies

dubai conference pre reading

Documents

dubai sports teams meeting

pm dinner meeting

pm break

pm lunch

dubai pastors important

dedicated conference

gloria hotel

basketball accessible