The Association of Church Sports and Recreation Ministries
Our Vision. Our Mission. Our Legacy.
All About Our Story
Our passion is to see lives changed through the use of sports, recreation, and fitness ministries by the local church.
We fulfill this through resourcing, training and equipping local church leaders for ministry around the world.
Those leaders are mobilizing their local church to build bridges to their communities for the purpose of leading people into a personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
CSRM Impact
Since its beginnings in 1994, CSRM has impacted over 900 churches and leaders in all 50 states and on five continents. CSRM has over 33 ministry representatives around the world who can assist you and your church with your sports, recreation, and fitness ministries.
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Our Strategies
Relationships
We're all about relationship building. Regional roundtables, conferences, video meetings, email groups, it doesn't matter; if it involves talking with sports, recreation, and fitness ministers and leaders, near and far, we love it. Building those networks and connecting people around the world provides community, care, support, and partnerships for this unique ministry.
We also build relationships through offering coaching for sports ministries. Our coaching relationships offer assessments of churches' current sports ministries and assistance in developing strategic plans for greater outreach effectiveness, through one-time coaching sessions, or more consistent coaching relationships.
Resources
Two words - Overwhelming Victory. We're so passionate about providing excellent, theologically sound, and practical resources to equip local church sports ministers and volunteers that we created our own resource division to house them all.
Through the work of our ministry representatives and SR&F experts around the world, we built a resource collection that includes sports ministry certification, a yearly conference at the REACHGathering, classes through our AGON institute as well as books, podcasts, online roundtables, training manuals and much more!
The CSRM Family
The AGON Institute of Sports Outreach Ministry is the most uniquely focused course of study for anyone desiring to use Sport, Recreation and Fitness Outreach to reach those far from Jesus and His Church. The AGON is uniquely positioned to empower those called to the local church as well as the sports-related, para-ministry and camping worlds. Students from all denominations, countries and continents are warmly encouraged to enroll and become a student in the AGON Institute of Sports Outreach Ministry.
The Association of Church Sports and Recreation Ministers is an international para-church ministry, headquartered in the United States. We provide a variety of different services that are designed for the Sports Minister in the US and Canada, and have resources designed for those in different demographics, regions, and church sizes as well!
An international network and affiliation of sports ministry leaders who are engaging in our mission of equipping local churches to change lives through sports outreach to start a church sports ministry movement in their own country CSRM's Global Network Partners (GNP's) are reaching their communities, nations, and continents with the gospel through sports ministry as they train & equip local indigenous church leaders in how to create evangelistic-disciplemaking models. GNP's are the most important link between CSRM and the worldwide local church. They are the boots on the ground that provide the hands and feet as they train, lead, guide, serve, equip, connect and encourage each church to grow in their vision to start a national church sports ministry movement. CSRM’s desire is to serve, mobilize, and empower GNP's from around the world to more effectively train trainers who will then equip the local church for evangelism, discipleship, and church planting through sports outreach.
Overwhelming Victory Flix is CSRM's video production house and produces a number of different video series to help equip the Sports, Recreation, & Fitness Minister. Browse the different projects we are working on below or visit our YouTube Channels for the full collection.
Overwhelming Victory Press is the Publishing House for Overwhelming Victory. Our books are written & edited by experts in their fields, and deal with at least one tier of our 3 Tier Paradigm, to help equip the Local Sports, Recreation, & Fitness Minister, to better reach their community.
Check out the latest written resources in our OVP Blog. Each blog is written by our team experienced SRF Ministers, Volunteers, and Teaching Staff!
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CSRM International
An international network and affiliation of sports ministry leaders who are engaging in our mission of equipping local churches to change lives through sports outreach to start a church sports ministry movement in their own country
CSRM's Global Network Partners (GNPs) are reaching their communities, nations, and continents with the gospel through sports ministry as they train and equip local indigenous church leaders in how to create evangelistic-disciplemaking models. GNPs are the most important link between CSRM and the worldwide local church. They are the boots on the ground that provide the hands and feet as they train, lead, guide, serve, equip, connect and encourage each church to grow in their vision to start a national church sports ministry movement. CSRM’s desire is to serve, mobilize, and empower GNPs from around the world to more effectively train trainers who will then equip the local church for evangelism, discipleship, and church planting through sports outreach.
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