Partner with us

Partnership options

Thinking about partnering with CEDE SPORTS? We are excited to announce several new ways to partner with us, along with resources to implement at your church.

We have five partnership tiers, each with helpful benefits:

Resourcing Church ($10/Month or $100/Year)

A church leader on our mailing list, defined in the app as a resourcing church

Benefits:

• Unlimited access for Church SRF Leader to the Community Resource Library - Videos, PDFs, devotionals, and practical tools

• Access for Church staff and volunteers

• Monthly CEDE SPORTS insider updates

To Note: Subscription fee may be waived (scholarship) by a CEDE SPORTS staff person for a defined period.

Connecting 1 Church ($25/Month or $250/Year)

Includes all resourcing church benefits, plus connection with CEDE SPORTS and peer churches

Benefits:

• Everything in Resourcing Church

• Choose from a list of quarterly SRF cohorts – by interests and affinity – (Click COHORT - Registration)

• Up to 2 cohorts/quarter for the SRF leader and another staff or volunteer

• Annual ministry assessment report – stored in Church's Profile

To Note: Digital payments are tracked in a dedicated church portal. Assigned CEDE SPORTS staff can view enrollment, monthly commitment, payments received and receipts.

Connecting 2 Church ($75/Month or $750/Year)

Includes all Connecting 1 Church benefits, with more frequent connection through monthly gatherings

Benefits:

• Everything in Connecting 1

• Choose from a list of monthly SRF cohorts – by interests and affinity – (Click COHORT - Registration)

• Up to 3 cohorts/month for the SRF leader and other staff/volunteers

• Bi-annual CEDE consultations – personalized input, ministry direction, and encouragement

• Annual ministry assessment report - stored in church profile

To Note: Digital payments are tracked in a dedicated church portal. Assigned CEDE SPORTS staff can view enrollment, monthly commitment, payments received and receipts.

Coaching Church ($250/Month or $2,500/Year)

Includes all Connecting 2 Church benefits, plus deep, hands-on coaching from CEDE SPORTS

Benefits:

• Everything in Connecting 2

• Monthly In-person or Zoom coaching

• Up to 10 monthly cohorts for SRF leader, staff or volunteers

• Comprehensive annual ministry assessment – CEDE SPORTS review

• Review stored in Church Profile - available to church leaders

• Ongoing strategic coaching, problem solving, and ministry development

• Help finding SRF staff

To Note: Reports are available to the church's pastors and leaders, and CEDE SPORTS is more closely involved than in other tiers.

Coaching Plus Church (Custom amount / Month or Year)

A customized coaching partnership with additional services agreed to with your CEDE SPORTS representative.

Benefits:

• All Coaching Benefits plus additional services agreed to with your CEDE SPORTS representative.

Click the button below to view these options on the Sports Ministry Community App!

Avaliable resources

Alphabetized List of Available Resources - Private Library 

1. “A Quick Ministry Evaluation Tool” - Video, PDF - Sports, Rec, & Fitness Ministers can use this tool to get started evaluating. 

2. “Brief - A Powerful Framework for Gospel-Centered SRF Ministry” - Video, PDFs - This resource will be a powerful tool to help you launch a sports ministry or build upon a current one. 

3. “Full SLT Breakdownn - A Powerfurl Framework for Gospel-Centered SRF Ministry” - Video, PDFs - Explore this powerful framework for a Gospel-Centered Sports Ministry. MVPS is the key to providing structure and organization to your ministry that will lead to fruitful impact for the kingdom. 

4. “Coach Development 2.0” - Video, PDFs - Explore this framework for developing coaches through Knowledge, Skill, and Character. See how Structure, Curriculum, and Environment work together to form gospel-centered coaches who integrate sports into the Gospel and create lasting transformation.

5. “Does God Care Who Wins?” - Video, PDFs - If you want to start up a stimulating conversation, ask the question, "Does God care who wins?"

6. “For the Love of the Game” - Video, PDFs - A perfect resource for anyone involved in the world of sport, providing clarity on redeeming sports through a biblical and practical framework.

7. “God’s Design for Sports, Rec,& Fitness” - Video - If you have ever wrestled with questions like, “Is it wrong to play to win?" or "Are sports and competition really good for us?" at the heart of these questions is the following question - "Where do sports, rec, and fitness fit into the gospel?"  

8. “Ideal Coach” - PDF - A model to help evaluate and train coaches in Knowledge, Skill, and Character for effective sports ministry.

9. “Ideal Sports Minister” - PDF - What does the Ideal Sports Minister look like? A resource for training, development and assessments.

10. “SLT Devotional - Adult Basketball” - PDF - This 9 week series was written by the MAC Staff at First Woodway Baptist Church in Waco, TX.  This series traces basketball through the Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation movements of the Gospel. 

11. “SLT Devotionals - Explained” - Article - An explanation of the reasons behind the development and utilization of SLT Devotionals.

12. “SLT Youth Flag Football Devotional” - PDF - This eight week series integrates flag football, Life, and Truth.  

13. “SLT Youth Soccer Devotional” - PDF - This 8 week devotional integrates soccer, life and truth.  

14. “SLT Youth Sport Generic” - PDF - This nine week devotional from REDEEMER SPORTS in Cumming, GA can be used in any youth sport.  

15. “Sports, Rec, & Fitness Ministry 2.0” - Video, PDFs - Sports, Rec, and Fitness Ministry 2.0 is an enhanced view of Sports, Rec, & Fitness Ministry that will give you greater vision, greater value, and greater wisdom in SRF. 

16. “The Strategic Power of Sports” - PDF - Discover how sports serve as a universal bridge to connect people and a life laboratory for character formation. Reframe athletics to look beyond winning at all costs and reflect grace, integrity, and faith on and off the field.

17. “The Wheel” - PDF - A framework for evaluating Gospel-Centered SRF ministry effectiveness beyond just numbers.

18. “What is God’s design for SRF after the Fall?” - Video - If you have ever wondered what God's original intent was for SRF or the path to redeeming SRF, this resource addresses those questions.

19. “What is the Gospel?” - PDF - If you asked your coaches this question, what would be the answer or answers.  This resource remind us of the scope of the gospel, that it is as big as new creation and as small as you and me.

20. “Why Are You Coaching?” - Video - This message dives into this important question and is great for coaches training - either viewed during that training or before - or for embedding on your website for coaches to view.

21. “Why Does God Want You to Coach?” - Video - This short but inspiring video is great to show at a coach training or to send out to your coaches for encouragement.