The Sycamore Network offers a dynamic gospel outreach ministry called "Sycamore @ the Stadium." A team of forty Christian volunteers from the Sycamore Network, as well as other area churches, use baseball to touch the lives of 8-12 year olds with the love of Christ.

During this 2-day baseball camp each November, volunteer coaches with baseball experiences ranging from amateur, college, minor, and even major leagues offer the passion and talents God has given them to bond with the children in a practical and fun way. As this relationship-building is taking place through baseball, the coaches also share their personal stories of faith in Jesus Christ.

The camp is set up on rotation stations. The children are broken into small groups, which rotate to different stations around the field. Each station imparts a skill such as pitching, catching, and hitting. The campers hear a story of faith at each station. In the Dugout they hear a story from the Bible and have an opportunity to receive Christ into their lives.

Sycamore at the Stadium serves approximately 70 children each year at no cost to them. Generous sponsorships of Savannah-area businesses as well as the Julia Bass Teschke Charitable Trust have enabled the Sycamore Network to provide lunch, t-shirts, baseball hats, and Bibles to every camper. The first camps took place at Armstrong Atlantic State University, but in 2004 we moved to Grayson Stadium, home of the Savannah Sand Gnats.

The camp is open to girls and boys ages 8-12. We seek out opportunities to invite children of low-income families, single-parent families, and military families. In 2004, we were blessed to serve children from Bethesda Boys Home, and children who have parents deployed in military service.

Sycamore at the Stadium began in 2003 from a vision God gave Camp Director Jason Rockwell. "I always wanted to do a baseball camp for kids," says Rockwell. "But I never knew God would use my love for baseball in such an amazing way. There’s no greater feeling than to see children accept Christ at these camps."

This year’s camp information is below

Sycamore @ the Stadium
November 12-13, 2005
Historic Grayson Stadium (Home of the Sand Gnats)
Sat. 8:30am-1pm, Sunday 2-5pm

You can download the registration form (in Word format) by clicking here or (.pdf format) by clicking here . 

Did you know that you can worship without music? For those of us that can barely play the radio, that’s good news!

Rick Warren’s book The Purpose Driven Life gives us a really good biblical definition of worship.   Worship is the process of surrendering our entire life into God’s hands.

Everything we do can – and should -- be an act of worship.

Here are ten habits than can help build worship into your life on a daily basis.

1. Worship through prayer. God wants us to share everything with Him. The Bible clearly encourages us to share our heart with Him. Nothing is too big or too small to pray about.

But God also wants us to get to know Him better. Jesus teaches this important lesson with His model prayer (Matthew 6:9-13). He prayed, “Our Father who is in Heaven, May Your name be honored.” Prayer starts with God.  Consider including in your prayers a time of focused attention on who God is.

2. Get in a regular habit of reading the Bible. The Bible says that we worship God in “spirit and in truth.” The truth about God is essential to worship. Pay special attention to the books of Psalms. No book in the Bible spends as much time carefully describing who God is.

3. Obey God.  We worship God when we obey Him. We all need to build the habit of obedience into our lives. Take practical steps to see that this is a part of your life. There’s a big step between knowing what to do and actually doing it.  Worship God by doing what He says.

4. Tithe. If you want to know what in your life you worship, look at your checkbook register. The Bible teaches us this important lesson: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Mathew 6:21 NIV)

5. Build deep relationships with other Christians. The Bible teaches that God designed us to live in community with other Christians. We bring God pleasure by getting to know others and being known by them.

6. Share your faith. Worship is how we are designed by God. He wants the best for us. Take time this week to share your spiritual journey with someone else. Tell them how you came to faith in Christ. Don’t worry about their response. Relax in the knowledge that you are playing a part in expanding God’s world-wide worship.

7. Serve others. Jesus tells us that “when you did it to the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did to me!” (Matt. 25:40 NLT) When we serve one another, Jesus tells us we are really serving Him.

8. Build into your life the attitude of gratitude. This requires looking at the world through a different set of eyes. When we look through the lens of thankfulness, we see our lives – and everything in it – as all gifts from God. Begin your day by thanking God for all of the good things in your life.

9. Begin turning over to God areas of your life that you have never committed to Him. The real heart of worship is surrender. God won’t settle for 90 percent of your life; He wants all of it. You might have been a follower of Jesus for years, but you still have areas of your life that you are holding back from Him. What are those areas? Two good places to look are your checkbook and your planner. Look at the areas of your life where you spend the most money and the most time. Do they honor God?

10.  Live a life of purpose. God has a reason for your existence. In fact, He has five: fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism and worship. You please God when you live in step with His purposes. God doesn’t want you to waste your life.

As Rick Warren reminds us in his book, the purpose of worship is the foundation of the other four purposes. Fellowship without the spirit of worship is just “hanging out.” Discipleship without worship is nothing but a fruitless mental exercise. Ministry without worship is called “spinning your wheels.” Evangelism without worship is a misplaced sales pitch.