Editorial: More than just a fan!

July 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Editorial

I’m no major sports fan, but once again the International YWAMer has proved to me that everything YWAM does is interesting!

Of course, we’ve never done an issue on work duties…or staff meetings…or long delays at airports…! Why not tell us what you think is the most boring thing about YWAM and maybe we’ll do an issue on it! Please contact us with this or any other feedback!

Getting back to the issue at hand – you don’t have to be a sports fan to recognize the strategic value of using the universal passion for sport in missions endeavors. In this IY, however, our writers do have their own favorite fitness-building pastimes: triathlete Michael Green shows us that sport has been used as an initiative in building peace for centuries (and that joining a simple walk for peace wasn’t so hard for him!). Football and cricket coach, Paul Baker, gives some practical and purposeful input on how you can use sport effectively in the place where you are serving. First off, though, keen distance runner Jeremy Weightman gives us a look at the 2012 Olympic outreach, which is going to be unlike any we have seen before, and reveals how this Olympic outreach is more like a marathon than a sprint!

All in all, it’s an issue to sit back and relax with – and then get up and go with!

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