On Sunday 12th September at Brighton Road Baptist Church the First Team will be presented with The Paul Brant Sportsmanship Trophy by the West Sussex Football Leagues Eddie Graham-Adams and The Horsham Referees Association Sportsmanship Shield by the Chairman, Paul Barron of the Referees Association.

This is a truly big event for the Club as this will be the second season in a row that we have done the 'douible'. No other has club has achieved this once let along twice!

It would be much appreciated if ALL the First Team players from last season could attend and any other players or girl'friends, wives, parents or children would be most welcome to come along and support you and the Club at this presentation.

We will meet in the church entrance at 10.15am for a Service starting at 10.30am. The whole thing will last around 1 hour.

We have just recieved news that the First Team have won this award for the second season in a row and therefore completing a Sportsmanship Trophy DOUBLE again the for the second season in a row.

The large shield will be presented to the Club at the Horsham Referees Association meeting on the 9th September.

Congratulations to all the players (and Terry) who played for the First Team last season who continued to uphold the Baptists tradition of fair play.

We now have signed on over 35 players for Baptists!

It is generally thought that we need around 45 players to be able to field two teams every week!

A very warm welcome to the new guys signed on so far; Chris Braun, Chris Goulder, Marcus Harrison. Ben Howlett, Tom Pearce and David Taylor.

A special welcome for the return of Stewart Walker.

We hope that you all have enjoyable season with Baptists!

James is spending two weeks in Moldova & Romania helping out at a children’s summer camp.  He flew out on the 23rd July to Moldova meeting up with a local Christian organisation called Agape, before heading to the camp at Lacu Rosu in Romania.  There he is helping organise a variety of activities and games for a group of about 30 children who come from a very poor district of Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. They are between 9 and 14 years of age. 
 
He is part of a team of 4 from the UK under the direction of Rob Allen (ex Horsham Baptists), who has set up a charity known as Flyers International to help run the camps with Agape.  As well as supporting the camp in person, Flyers raises the funds necessary to enable these poor children to go.  For many it is the first holiday that they have ever had.  James is in charge of organising a variety of individual and team games – rather like ‘It’s a Knockout!’  He  returns to Moldova and the team have been invited to visit the British Ambassador there before returning on the 7th August.

Hope all goes well James we look forward to seeing the pics!

What James did:

I went to Moldova and Romania for 2 weeks in July/August with Rob & Jo Allen and Sarah Penberthy working with Rob’s charity (Flyers International) in conjunction with a Moldovan charity (Agape) to help with a summer camp for children.

When we arrived we spent 3 days with Agape and the Moldovan young leaders finalising the details of the camp. The actual camp took place in the mountains of Romania at a place called Lacu Rosu. There were 23 children on the camp aged 9 – 16. During the week we did various activities such as mountain climbing, boating on the lake, outdoor games and indoor crafts.

Each afternoon the Moldovan young leaders led bible study sessions in small groups and we all got together every evening for a time of worship. Each evening a different young leader gave a testimony of how they became a Christian.

After the camp we returned to Moldova and had the opportunity of meeting the British Ambassador, who was very interested in what we were doing. The camp was a great success and I really enjoyed the whole experience.

If you wpuld like to know more have a chat with James I am sure he can tell you all about his adventures!

Tough night for the 17 lads at training yesterday as Petra Lewis of New U Training and Fitness put the lads through routines that many had never seen!

From what I could see, the plank excerise looked a bit like a new tourture method! Only legal! Joking a part this gave the boys some new exercise disciplines that they can use at home and we can use at normal training sessions.

The boxing excerice looked real fun but hard work if done correctly! I can't say that they looked like Rocky but more like Mr T flat on his back after the fight!!

A big thank you to Petra from coming along and showing us how unfit we are!! Good fun thanks Petra.

If any one would like to give their loved one a personal training session Petra offers gift cards for that purpose. You can contact Petra at www.newutraining.co.uk/

Although I would be careful how you approach this with the Mrs suggestion she might need a personal trainer!

The First Team have won the Paul Brant Sportsmanship Trophy it has just been announced for the 2009/2010 season.

The terrific news just goes to show the that once again that Horsham Baptists play football in way it should be, competively but fairly!

This the 4th time in the last 5 years that Baptists have won 'our cup back'.

For further details on the history of this trophy, click here.

Many congratulations to Terry and the lads that represented the Firsts last season.