Many Athletic Directors are hired because of their expertise in Athletics - most often demonstrated as a successful head coach. This provides a wealth of experience to navigate the many complexities of school sports, but it doesn’t necessarily provide the foundation for knowing how deeply athletics can further the mission of the school. In fact, it could very well be that Sports and an athlete’s relationship with his or her coach could be the most formative aspect of a young person’s life.

Unfortunately, many Athletic Directors feel like they're on islands. Their responsibilities are vital to the Spiritual Formation efforts of the School, but their sphere of influence typically happens outside the normal operation of the school day. Add that to the reality that many of an Athletic Director’s peers at other schools aren’t approaching their jobs from a Christian worldview. Certainly, the missional life of an Athletic Director can feel quite isolated. In the same way that Jesus established a community – a Body made up of diverse members – to be instruments of furthering His kingdom, our hope is to establish a community of Athletic Directors who can grow and learn from each other. So we, too, can be instruments of spiritual transformation in our schools.