Sports Booklets

Over the years Deo Gloria has undertaken many projects in partnership with other Christian agencies. Some of the most significant wew related to sporting events.

Twenty-10 Pocket Guide

An excellent evangelism resource... a handy guide with 38 action-packed pages that can be given to anyone from 6 to 96! Used with the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The Ultimate Goal (2002-2008)

Spectacular football action with world class players discussing their motivation, dreams and disappointments as they search for their own ultimate goal. Narrated by John Motson.

For the players featured on this DVD / video, a career in football has been a dream come true, but the ultimate goal for them is more than just a game. It is something that will continue to give them purpose and fulfilment beyond the final whistle.

KICK OFF 2006 - Football World Cup, Germany

Competition Starts on 9th June 2006 - Finishes on 9th July 2006

This booklet has been produced as part of the very successful series of football pocket guides. It is a guide to the FIFA World Cup™ 2006.

It contains:

• The origins and history of the FIFA World Cup™
• The path to qualifying for all finalists.
• Full fixtures with kick off times, locations and space to record scores.
• Details of all of the venues in Germany
• Read some astounding facts about the World Cup and amaze your friends

Whether you love football or hate it, the World Cup will be difficult to ignore, whatever your view it still gives us all the opportunity to reach out to football fans with a Christian message.

Deo Gloria once again worked in partnership with Christians in Sport, International Bible Society, Christian Enquiry Agency and Verite.

The take up so far has been outstanding, after printing 85,000 we are now sold out.

The Road to Glory – Pocket guide to Barclaycard Premiership 2003-04

This booklet was based on the previous, well tested, idea of producing a guide with fixtures, history etc, along with some testimonies of Christian players and a short gospel outline. The idea of the booklet was have something that was high quality and acceptable to the football fan and not too pushy – a kind of pre-evangelism booklet.

‘The Road to Glory’ was produced by Deo Gloria in conjunction with Christians in Sport, Damaris and Verite CM for the 2003-04 Football season. It was the first time we had produced anything for the domestic football scene (although the Premiership is watched world-wide). All our other projects of this type have been for World Cups or European Football Championships (see below).

The take up on these booklets were slightly less than we had hoped, about 12,000 were distributed.

The Ultimate Goal – Pocket Guide to the 2004 European Football Championships

The other big project has been the Ultimate Goal - souvenir guide to the 2004 European Football Championships held in Portugal. We sold out of this booklet, even after a re-print just before the tournament started. A total of 35,000 booklets (our most ever for a sports related booklet like this) were distributed.

In 1996, we partnered with Christians in Sport, CPO - Design & Print and International Bible Society to produce a souvenir booklet for the European Football Championships, which were held in England that year. We produced a booklet entitled “The Ultimate Goal”, which featured a ‘fill-in’ match programme section, BBC commentator John Motson’s lowdown on the star players of the tournament, testimonies of Christian footballers and an outline of the gospel in a contemporary format. 83 000 copies were distributed in total, including 10 000 which CPO made available at no charge to prisons in the UK.

With the success of “The Ultimate Goal”, plans were put into place to produce another souvenir football booklet for the 1998 World Cup which was held in France. “To Be The Best” followed the same formula as “The Ultimate Goal”. Over 400 000 copies of the booklet were distributed throughout the world in almost 50 different languages.

CPO - Design & Print and Christians in Sport have also taken this formula to other sports such as Rugby Union (Rugby Union World Cup 1999 - “On the Winning Side”), Cricket (Cricket World Cup 1999 - “Cricket - a Different Spin”) and Athletics (Olympics 2000 - “More than Gold”).

We also produced souvenir booklets for the Commonwealth Games held in Manchester and for the football World Cup which took place in Japan and South Korea.

“More Than Champions” was our first foray into producing evangelistic videos. Teaming up with Christians in Sport, Christian Television Association and SP Trust in 1997, we produced this video featuring six Christian sports personalities. It was presented by former athlete Kriss Akabusi and featured each person giving an outline of their testimony and how they live as a professional sportsman / woman and a Christian.

If you are interested in sport, why not visit the Christians in Sport website: