Volunteer as a Coach
Now is your opportunity to impact the lives of players and their families! The great evangelist Billy Graham once said, “A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.”
Upward Basketball coaches have an opportunity to teach basketball and share the gospel by weaving both together through your actions, attitudes, and words.
Being an Upward Basketball coach involves teaching more than just the athletic side of basketball and includes mental, spiritual, and social development. When a coach is only concerned with winning at any cost or handing out trophies to everyone, what is lost is the opportunity to help participants become better people. An Upward Basketball coach considers Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 2:7 to realize that God created everyone. God created all the young athletes participating in Upward Basketball. God created the coaches and all the volunteers. God created everyone in his image. As image-bearers of God, we should treat everyone with the love and kindness that God treats them with. Upward Basketball is not just about sports, it’s about helping participants and their families discover Jesus.
