SMGT 504 Foundations of Sport Outreach

The student who successfully completes this course will be able to relate biblical concepts to sport and recreational ministries. This course will equip the student to handle decision-making, organizational strategies, staffing, training, legal issues, and various roles of leadership as they pertain to a sport ministry’s objectives, goals, and vision.

Textbook readings and lecture presentations

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Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions (4)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt. The Discussions in this course are completed over the course of two modules. In the first module that the discussion is assigned, the student must post a 400-word thread in response to the prompt provided. In the following module, the student must post two replies of at least 200 words each to his/her classmates’ threads.

For each thread, he/she must support his/her assertions with at least two citations in current APA format. Each reply must incorporate at least one citation in APA format. Acceptable sources include course materials, articles relevant to the course and topic, or references to sport outreach organization materials and sport outreach best practices.

Sport Ministries and Visionaries Assignment

After reading Chapter Two of the text, students will select one of the featured Christian sport ministry pioneers to further research and describe how they relate to Muscular Christianity, how they used sports to serve Christ, and how their life impacted contemporary Christian sports ministry. The assignment must be a minimum of three pages long and refer to the course text, the Bible, and an additional related source. The assignment must be in current APA format.

Competition, the Bible, and Christianity Assignment

After reading Chapter Five of the course text, drawing on related sources found through additional research and personal experience, the student will:

• Describe the positive and negative aspects of competition as it relates to faith.
• Articulate Biblical faith principles that can affect a Christian’s participation in sport.
• Explain aspects of sport that make it an ideal platform for evangelism and discipleship.

The assignment must be a minimum of three pages long and refer to at least three high-quality sources, with at least two coming from outside of the course materials. The assignment must be in current APA format.

Personal Testimony or Devotional Message Assignment

After reading Chapter Six of the course text and drawing on scripture, personal experience, and/or related sources found through additional research, the student will either write a personal Christian testimony using the three-part outline example used by the Apostle Paul from the text or write a devotional message using the four-part outline method from the text. The assignment must be a minimum of three pages long and refer to the course text, the Bible, and an additional related source. The assignment must be in current APA format.

Ethics: The Tension Between Competitive Sport and Christianity Assignment

After reading Chapter Seven of the course text and watching the Module 5 video, students will write an essay that presents their perspective on the tension between competition and faith. The assignment must be a minimum of three pages long and refer to the course text, the Bible, and an additional related source. The assignment must be in current APA format.

Sport Ministry in the Church Assignment

After reading Chapter Twelve of the course text and related sources found through additional research, the student will use his/her home church or a church he/she is familiar with to describe or propose a sport or recreation effort. The assignment must be a minimum of three pages long and refer to at least three high-quality sources, with at least two coming from outside of the course materials. The assignment must be in current APA format.

Quizzes (3)

Students will take three open-book/open-note quizzes in this course. The quizzes will consist of 18-30 multiple-choice, short-answer, and true/false questions. There will be a time limit of 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes.