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    Sports Chaplain Ordination

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    Christian Leaders Institute & Christian Leaders Alliance

    Sports Chaplain Ordination Program

    Equipping Christ-centered leaders to serve athletes, coaches, and communities with spiritual presence, wisdom, and steady leadership.

    Ordination Pathway • Self-Paced • Global Access
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    🛡️ Are You Called to Be a Sports Chaplain?

    A Sports Chaplain is a volunteer or part-time minister who brings Christ-centered presence, prayer, and spiritual care into the high-stakes world of athletics.

    The Sports Chaplaincy Ordination Program is a structured pathway that equips you with biblical, theological, and practical chaplaincy skills and provides a clear route to ordination and clergy credentialing through the Christian Leaders Alliance.

    Chaplains serve athletes, coaches, staff, and families through pastoral listening, Scripture, grief care, injury care, spiritual encouragement, and relational leadership.

    📚 You’ll Learn to:

    • Serve faithfully in high-visibility environments with clear role boundaries
    • Offer Spirit-led care during injury, grief, conflict, and pressure
    • Practice consent-based spiritual care with wisdom and timing
    • Build trust through confidentiality and professionalism
    • Support families and relationships without role drift
    • Partner well with coaches and staff

    ✅ Required Courses

    Multiplying Christian Leaders
    Chaplain Foundations
    Sports Chaplaincy Practice
    Wedding Officiant Skills
    Funeral Officiant Skills
    Capstone Course

    🎯 Outcomes

    Graduates are equipped to serve as recognized sports chaplains in schools, teams, and athletic programs—offering compassionate, credible spiritual care.

    🪜 Steps to Ordination

    1. Enroll with Christian Leaders Alliance
    2. Complete required training
    3. Submit endorsement(s)
    4. Update your profile
    5. Order credentials
    6. Participate in commissioning
    7. Optional: publish story or register a Soul Center
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    Step One: Complete the Required Courses: Your Program Completion Tracker

    Step One: Complete the Required Courses: Your Program Completion Tracker

    This is your program courses completion tracker. When each required course is checked off—including this program course—you have met the system requirements for ordination recognition in the Christian Leaders Alliance Directory . You may then purchase your credentials, if you choose, and proceed to your public prayer or ordination commissioning into this role.

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    Step Two: Confirm or Complete the Endorsement Process

    Step Two: Confirm or Complete the Endorsement Process

    Level One Endorsement

    A Level One Endorsement signifies that someone has recognized your character and temperament as suitable for ordination. If you have already achieved Endorsement Level One, you may move past this step. Many have received their Level One Endorsement through the wedding officiant ordination program. If that is true for you, you have completed this step.

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    Step Three: Update Your Student Profile

    Step Three: Update Your Student Profile

    As an Ordained Sports Chaplain, your student profile will be publicly displayed as your official clergy profile in the Christian Leaders Alliance Directory . This profile serves as your recognized ministry credential, so it’s important to:

    • Write your ministry profile thoughtfully
    • Highlight your sports chaplain calling, training, and areas of service (schools, colleges, clubs, teams, leagues, athletic departments, coaches and staff support, athlete care, injury support, grief and loss care, team devotions/chapel moments, mentoring, family encouragement, and community partnerships)
    • Upload a professional, high-quality photo that reflects your chaplain role
    • Keep your language clear, humble, and role-aware, showing you understand authority structures, boundaries, and confidentiality in athletic settings

    A well-crafted profile communicates your competency, credibility, and calling as an Ordained Sports Chaplain.

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    Step Four: Submit Your Story for Publication (Optional).

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    Step Five: Formal Program Completeion Quiz

    Step Five: Formal Program Completion Quiz

    Before you order your credentials, you must complete this quiz to confirm in our system that you have finished this ordination program. After that, you may purchase your credentials (if you choose) and schedule your laying-on-of-hands commissioning service.

    Once all courses in this program are completed and this quiz is submitted, our system will record your completion: your credential will be awarded, and every program requirement box will be checked off.

    If you complete this quiz but one or more required courses in the program are not yet finished, this course may show as completed in your program tracker, but other course boxes will remain unchecked until those requirements are fulfilled.

    • Sports Chaplain Confirmation Check (Click here to Make Sure your Have Completed your Credential Courses)

      Before you purchase your ordination package or upgraded credentials, take a moment to click this tool and confirm that all your boxes are checked. If they are, congratulations—you have completed the program requirements and are ready to move forward.

      If you already have Licensed, Officiating, or Ministry Chaplain credentials, you are welcome to upgrade your credentials as well. Your upgrade includes a new Letter of Good Standing outlining your updated authorization with the Christian Leaders Alliance, an official ordination certificate, and an updated ID card.

      If you have ordered a package in the past, the upgrade price is $78.


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    Step Six: Order Your Credentials.

    Before You Order
    Please Confirm Your Credential Completion
    Credential kits are intended for students who have completed the Sports Chaplain credential. Please confirm your completion before ordering.
    Confirm Completion
    Order Your Credentials
    Choose Your Sports Chaplain Kit
    Choose which official credential package fits your need
    Chaplain Kit Essential
    Sports Chaplain Kit Essential photo
    $150
    ID Card$50
    Letter of Good Standing$50
    Certificate$80
    Christian Leaders Pen$1.99
    Shirt$25
    Chaplain Pin$15
    Save $71.99
    Buy This Kit
    Chaplain Kit Plus
    Most Popular
    Sports Chaplain Kit Plus photo
    $250
    ID Card$50
    Letter of Good Standing$50
    Certificate$80
    Shirt$25
    Parking Pass$30
    Bumper Sticker$18.99
    Chaplain Cap$15
    Chaplain Pin$15
    Credential Cover$35
    Save $68.99
    Buy This Kit
    Chaplain Kit Premium
    Sports Chaplain Kit Premium photo
    $350
    ID Card$50
    Letter of Good Standing$50
    Certificate$80
    Bumper Sticker$18.99
    Chaplain Shirt$25
    Chaplain Polo$35
    Christian Leaders Fleece$45
    Clergy Ring$14.99
    Notebook$14.99
    Parking Pass$30
    Credential Cover$35
    Chaplain Cap$15
    Chaplain Pin$15
    Coffee$10.99
    Backpack$30
    Save $119.96
    Buy This Kit
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    Step Seven: Participate in a Commissioning Prayer Service

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    Step Eight: Register a Soul Center (Optional)

    ✝️ What Is a Soul Center?

    🌟 Sports Chaplains and Soul Centers

    A Soul Center within the Christian Leaders Alliance (CLA) is a locally registered Christian religious society designed to serve a specific community or relational circle with Spirit-led presence, discipleship, and pastoral ministry. Soul Centers are led by credentialed ministers, including Ordained Sports Chaplains, who are trained and recognized through the Christian Leaders Alliance. Each leader affirms the CLA Statement of Faith and agrees to follow the best practices outlined in the Soul Center Handbook.

    The core purpose of a Soul Center is to function as a local expression of the Church—a gathering and ministry hub where the love of Christ is demonstrated through biblical teaching, pastoral chaplaincy, prayer, discipleship, and supportive community connection.

    For Sports Chaplains, Soul Centers often become a steady bridge between high-pressure athletic culture and spiritual restoration—supporting athletes, coaches, families, and the wider sports community with wisdom, dignity, and clear boundaries.

    🕊️ The Role of the Sports Chaplain in a Soul Center

    Sports Chaplains help anchor Soul Centers by:

    • Providing spiritual care and pastoral presence for athletes, coaches, and staff during seasons of pressure, injury, grief, conflict, anxiety, identity strain, and spiritual searching
    • Offering prayer, Scripture encouragement, and discipleship support in a consent-based, role-aware way (honoring team policies and authority structures)
    • Supporting parents, spouses, and families impacted by travel, performance pressure, injury seasons, and intense schedules
    • Encouraging healthy coping, integrity, and spiritual resilience—helping people take real steps toward humility, reconciliation, and renewed life in Christ
    • Extending Christ’s compassion through mentoring, referral partnerships, crisis follow-up, and connection to healthy church community

    Whether providing care after a serious injury, supporting a family in distress, encouraging a coach under stress, or helping an athlete find hope beyond performance, the Ordained Sports Chaplain brings God’s presence with clarity, compassion, and firm boundaries.

    🌍 Types of Soul Centers

    • House churches or small group fellowships
    • Athlete or coach discipleship circles (small groups, mentorship huddles, prayer gatherings)
    • Chaplaincy-based Soul Centers supporting sports programs and community partnerships
    • Ceremonial and pastoral care hubs (funerals, dedications, prayer services)
    • Recovery and resilience ministries addressing addiction, grief, trauma, anxiety, and life rebuilding
    • Specialized ministry expressions such as Bible studies, mentorship networks, and community prayer gatherings

    All Soul Centers are affiliated with the Christian Leaders Alliance, providing a theological and accountability framework, access to ministry resources and best practices, and connection to a global network of Christian leaders.