Only 960 days and 11 hours to go!

The Bonny Downs north leadership meetings are always good. Yes sometimes we need to deal with rotas and other boring things (for me anyway), but I always come away feeling like we talked about important things. Let me tell you about one of them.

Newham (that's where East Ham is) will be the host borough for the Olympics in 2012. That means millions of people descending upon our humble patch and huge opportunities for outreach and for community development. Last night for our meeting we had a special guest Matthew Porter from Transform Newham to wet our appetite.

One appetizer he gave us was the possibility of using the 2010 World Cup as a practice mission. That really got me excited. I love football and as our Church-plant meets in a sports pavilion, we meet footballers every week. We could have big screen outdoor showings of the big games. Matthew reckoned we could easily draw a crowd of 800 to the England games. Knowing my community I agree with him.

"Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest." John 4:35

Sports ministry has massive potential! With the World Cup next year and the London Olympics only 960 days and 11 hours to go! away, we'd better get cracking.

Please pray for us as we seek to partner with other churches in Newham to make the best of these exciting up and coming ministries.

Ben

If you'd like to find out more about the outreach potential of the Olympics goto:

www.morethangold.org.uk

If you'd like to find out more about sports ministry in general or get help setting one up goto:

www.worldsportministries.com