About Church Sports International
CSI is a faith-supported missions organization that was started in August of 1992 by Rodger Oswald and a governing Board of Directors. As CSI was formed, the ministry motto was ". . . reaching your community and the world for Christ through sports"; the ministry is Scripturally undergirded by the cultural mandate declared by Paul in I Corinthians 9 (his willingness to be Jew or Greek), as well as by his example in Acts as he observed cultural distinctives in order to preach the gospel. 
CSI has three goals . . .
- To work with churches - to empower them to carry out the God-given tasks of worship, empowered evangelization, and edification of the body of Christ.
- To work with mission agencies - to stimulate and equip the agency in the employment of sports as a means to carry out Great Commission tasks in planting and growing churches.
- To work with sports parachurch ministries - to cooperate and participate in major event evangelism that is productive in helping the local church reach out and grow.
In each of these cases the intention is to create a vision for sports ministry in the local church, equip the church to carry out that vision and to come alongside in order to implement the vision.
These goals are achieved three ways:
- The personal ministry of Rodger Oswald by direct consulting, through seminars and conferences, and through hands-on, personal involvement.
- The resources that CSI develops . . . resources that include instructional audio and video tapes, equipping manuals and other written materials.
- Learning by extension through correspondence training materials made
available to potential global associates.
