Who Can Play?
UPWARD Flag Football is for boys and girls in 1st grade through 6th grade. UPWARD
Cheerleading is for girls in K4 (entering Kindergarten in the Fall) through 6th grade.
How to register:
Click here to register for Flag Football
Click here to register for cheerleading
Mandatory Evaluations will be held January 22 from 2 to 4 pm OR January 28 from 9 am to 12 pm.
You must attend ONE of the evaluations. Uniform sizing will be done at evaluations as well.
ALL registration will be done online this year. If you don’t have access to a computer or need
additional assistance, please call the children’s ministry office 281-446-8168.
$80 registration through Jan 15, 2012. Late registration is $100 with no deadline.
The season runs from February 14 through April 28.
Why Flag Football and Cheerleading?
1. 3.8 million children played organized football in the U.S. in 2004
2. Cheerleading continues to grow at nearly a 50% rate each year nationally
3. Nearly 3.6 million students participate in cheerleading annually
4. 1.4 million cheerleaders are in the 6 to 11-year-old age group
*source: 2004 Sports Participation in America Report, Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association
UPWARD Flag Football and Cheerleading provides a chance for our church to use these sports to evangelize our community. Football is a sport that many more children want to play, but are too young or not interested in the contact of tackle football. UPWARD Flag Football and UPWARD Cheerleading offer a break from the norm. The primary focus of UPWARD is to develop the Winner in EVERY child, not just a few. By keeping this goal in mind, you are able to build a league that promotes salvation, character, and self-esteem in all who participate through:
1. Sportsmanship and competitiveness in proper perspective by not maintaining league standings in any
division.
2. Equipping coaches to minister by providing extensive teaching tools and resources.
3. Providing opportunities to promote other church ministries to all participants and their families.
4. Allowing the coach to focus on ministering to children and their families, instead of game strategy,
by having a set substitution system where all players are allowed equal playing time and equal
opportunity for improvement.
5. Encouraging each participant with a game-day award following every game.
6. Maximizing ministry opportunities by exposing participants to Scripture-based devotions during each
practice and spectators to halftime testimonies each game day.
7. Providing opportunities to see changed hearts and lives among children, family members, and volunteers
who experience an UPWARD ministry.
8. Maximizing the family schedule by having only one hour of practice and one game each week.
9. Building toward a harvest time at the UPWARD Awards Celebration where participants and family
members are given an opportunity to respond to the gospel.
