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Chapel Service Tips

Below are a few tips for conducting your chapel service:

1.  Decide which type of Chapel Service you want to conduct:
     *  Weekend Tournament or World Series Chapel Serrvice 
     *  League or Sunday Game Chapel Service
     *  School Chapel Service

2.  Contact appropriate person to set up the chapel service:
     *  Tournament or League Director
     *  Opposing Team Manager or Head Coach
     *  Local FCA or Other Sports Ministry Director
     *  School Coach, Athletic Director or Other Administrator

3.  Request the following:
     *  Permission to conduct the chapel service
     *  Desired date & day for the chapel service
     *  Best time to conduct the chapel service
     *  How much time you have for the chapel service
     *  Best location for the chapel service
     *  Permission to promote via flyers, signs, email, website, newsletter, etc.  

4.  Once permission is granted for the chapel service ...
     *  Create promotional items
         -  Flyers, Posters & Signs
         -  Emails & Web Announcements
         -  Newsletter Article
     *  Begin promoting chapel service:
         -  Email, Website & Newsletter Announcements
         -  Pass-out & hang Flyers, Posters & Signs
         -  Phone Calls & Face to Face Meetings
         -  Flyers in coach & team mom tournament & league packets
         -  Make announcement at tournament & league coach meetings
     *  Put together chapel service agenda (can include ...)
         -  Select Downloadable Baseball Team Devotion from our Website
         -  Invite guest athlete or coach to give a testimony
         -  Incorporate a sports ministry DVD piece (if indoors)
         -  Share Gospel and give Invitation to accept Christ
         -  Have attendees fill-out & hand-in response cards
     
5.  Day of Chapel Service:
     *  Set-up chairs, video projector, Bibles, response cards & golf pencils, etc.
     *  Put-up signs to point people to chapel location
     *  Make announcement over baseball complex sound system (if possible)
     *  Conduct the chapel service
     *  Collect response cards, golf pencils & Bibles
     *  Tear-down, pack-up & leave location better than you found it 

6.  Post-Chapel Service To-Do's: 
     *  Get follow-up resources to those who made decisions
     *  Send thank you notes and emails to appropriate personnel
     *  Email FCA Baseball a chapel ministry report at rhobar@fca.org ...
         -  Summary & highlights of chapel service
         -  Photos or streaming video
         -  FCA Baseball will post report on Facebook Page
         -  Or you can post it on the page wall if you are a fan of the page

7.  Repeat steps to conduct another chapel service  



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