Congress Schedule For Waco Coming Out
Earlier this year, I learned that my proposed talk on translating the scriptures for sport had been accepted for the 4th Global Congress on Sport and Christianity (GCSC) happening this summer in Waco, Texas at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary. And I recently received an email about where my talk will fit into the conference as a whole. A tentative draft of the schedule has me presenting with three others in a panel titled “Contextual Sport Ministry.”
Presenting alongside of myself, will be friend Xavier Bharath, who has been doing a pioneering work in India. He will speak on a theme of church planting using sports ministry as a vehicle. Two others that are part of the panel I don’t, yet, personally know include Jonny Reid and Scott Jackson. Scott is based in South America and has been ministering in Argentina as a missionary. He founded Vertical Deportes which is primarily a social media platform connecting Latin American athletes to their faith. Jonny Reid is with Christians in Sport (a UK group) and co-authored with Graham Daniels, Spiritual Game Plan, a recent book that looks at sport and faith.
I will look forward to sharing thoughts and reflections from the work in publishing my recent books, The Soccer Psalms and The Football Psalms and soon to be published, Los Salmos del Fútbol.
2025 marks the fourth GCSC and the Faith & Sports Institute is proud to host the event at Truett Seminary in collaboration with Sport.Faith.Life, Ridley Hall, the Christian Society for Kinesiology, Leisure, and Sports Studies, wired4sport, and the University of Tennessee’s Sport & Religion Research Alliance.
This will be a special time, as well, as I have had the privilege of teaching the online section of Soul Care in Sports with Truett Seminary this past semester and I will likely get to meet several of the students face-to-face, while in Waco. I am hoping to raise about $1500 to offset the costs of the conference. If you’d like to make a contribution toward this, you can make a one-time donation via PushPay to the General fund.
