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For Ages 3 yrs - 8th grade
UPWARD BASKETBALL & CHEERLEADING
All registrations made after November 5, 2007 will incur a $10 late fee.
DEADLINE for sign-up: December 3, 2007
If you are interested in receiving more information concerning Upward Basketball, please use the form below to email your name and address and we will mail you the brochure and registration form. You can also pick them up from the church office during regular office hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Upward Basketball is for 3 years to 8th Grade
Upward Basketball is an evangelistic sports ministry designed to promote community outreach, develop volunteer leadership, and share the love of Christ with children and their families, using something as simple as a basketball. Specifically designed for kindergarten through sixth grade boys and girls, Upward promotes salvation, character and self-esteem in every child.
Upward Basketball promotes character and self-esteem in every child by providing:
- Equal playing time for every player
- Separate leagues for boys and girls
- A one-hour practice and game each week of the season
- An evaluation process to provide equal opportunity for improvement
- Each player signs up as an individual, not as a group or team
Every player will receive:
- Upward Basketball reversible jersey
- Upward Basketball t-shirt
- Upward Basketball car magnet
- Individual awards after each practice and game
- End of the season award
Why Upward Basketball?
Upward Basketball offers a break from the norm. The primary focus of Upward is to develop the Winner in EVERY child, not just a few. By keeping this goal in mind, we are able to build a league that promotes salvation, character, and self-esteem in all who participate through:
- Keeping sportsmanship and competitiveness in proper perspective by not maintaining league standings in any division
- Maximizing the family schedule by having only one hour of practice and one game each week
- Equipping coaches and referees to minister by providing extensive teaching tools and resources
- Providing opportunities to promote other church ministries to all participants and their families
- Allowing the coach to focus on ministering to children and their families, instead of game strategy, by having a set substitution system where all players are allowed equal playing time and equal opportunity for improvement.
- Encouraging each player with a gameday award following every game
- Maximizing ministry opportunities by exposing players to Scripture-based devotions during each practice and spectators to halftime testimonies each gameday.
- Providing opportunities to see changed hearts and lives among children, family members, and volunteers who experience an Upward ministry.
- Building toward a harvest time at Awards Night where participants and parents are given an opportunity to respond to the Gospel.
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