FIGHT CHURCH needs YOU to step and help Fight the Good Fight!!!
The quickest, easiest way to help us out is by helping fund our efforts and you can do it right here at the top of the www.fightchurch.com homepage!
ANY amount helps, is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use… You can do a special one-time gift or become a monthly partner!
No matter what you decide to do, it ALL helps!!!
Thanks so much!
This is the first Episode of a brand new web series called Dog House: Unleashed… It is going to follow the DOG BOXER Fight Team. This is an amazing opportunity for FIGHT CHURCH because we have partnered with DOG BOXER and I am the official chaplain for the team.
FIGHT CHURCH should be prominently featured since in addition to being the team chaplain, I also help out cornering guys and whatever is needed!
I will keep you posted on future episodes…
This is an amazing clip from an MMA documentary. It is real, raw, it is why FIGHT CHURCH does what it does and why it is so important! We are here in Las Vegas, the hub of it all, to minister to the MMA community and help in any way we can! Please take just a few minutes to check it out…
This past Friday night, FIGHT CHURCH with a team of 5 strong, including a brand new volunteer, worked the TUFF-N-UFF event at the SouthPoint Hotel & Casino and we had a great time! This was a new venue for the promotion and we didn’t know what to expect. When we got down below the arena where the fighter prep area was located, we realized that we were at the rodeo! Not really, but the “hallway” leading to the locker room was carpet laid on top of a dirt floor lined with curtains and on the other side of the curtains there were all kinds of animal stalls and shoots. It was pretty cool, but didn’t smell great.
Anyway, the evening was incredible. As usual, we issued gloves to the fighters, helped get wraps signed off by the Athletic Commission, staged fighters, collected gloves, etc. Of course, while taking care of those duties, we were able to talk with and build relationships with fighters, coaches, corner folks, teammates and more. We also had the honor of praying with a few fighters before and/or after their fights.
TEAM THROWDOWN was there showing love to FIGHT CHURCH sporting our logo on their team shirts. Big thanks to our friend Tha Rooster! There were many other teams represented such as Anarchy, Legends, Wand, Xtreme Couture, 10th Planet, One Kick, Fryklund and Hard Knocks. Like always, there were plenty of pro fighters in the back with each team prepping teammates/students and getting them ready to compete.
Our friend and favorite cutman, Adrian Rosenbusch, was working hard turning wrappin’ hands into an absolute artform. At the risk of forgetting someone, a few of the pros/coaches in the mix were Ryan Couture, Jimmy Jones, John Wood, Tony Fryklund, Nick Blomgren, Eddie Bravo, Tyson Griffin, Kui Gonsalves-Kanoho, Cody McKenzie, Matt Riddle, Shawn Fitzsimmons, Cameron Diffley and many more. Even bumped into Frank Trigg a couple of times!
FIGHT CHURCH always has a great time serving the MMA community in whatever way possible and providing the only chaplain program the sport has here in Vegas. Thanks so much to all our volunteers. Can’t wait for the next event!
Just a quick update…
Greetings from beautiful, sunny Las Vegas, NV! We hope your holiday season was amazing! 2012 is going to be an incredible year for FIGHT CHURCH. The sport of MMA is exploding and things here in Vegas, the hub of this international sports phenom, are going nuts. There are more and more MMA events, more and more MMA promotions, and more and more MMA athletes! The MMA gyms are busting at the seams and many coaches are branching out and opening new facilities.
Here at FIGHT CHURCH we have our work cut out for us. We are excited and thankful to be working in all 4 of the biggest gyms here in town, but are planning to double that this year by expanding to some of the other gyms that are growing. We will be recruiting and training many more volunteers so we are able to work at as many events as possible.
Our website will be undergowing some changes in the near future. In 2011, we had plans to do more video and post more regular updates. Unfortunetly, we were unable to post nearly as often as we would had hoped and video proved to be more of a challenge than we thought. However, we are on track now and have even began filming some items. We have a couple of things in the works and our goal is to post a few different things every week. Be on the look out!
We are finalizing some very specific goals for this year and will be sharing them with you very soon. In the meantime, we are super excited about this year and the opportunity to continue ministering to the MMA community. Thank you so much for your support in 2011… Let’s Fight the Good Fight!
Check out Bellator Lightweight Champion Michael Chandler Jr.’s new website… www.blessedthreads.com. He is a great guy, a man of Faith and we are proud to call him one of our friends here in the MMA community in Las Vegas!
Not too long ago, a pastor asked Joe Rogan about how to become the UFC’s Chaplain… this is an uncensored video of their exchange.
This video illustrates the reason we are so excited about what we have been able to accomplish over the last year with MMA chaplaincy through FIGHT CHURCH! Things are going great! However, this is also the reason we need your prayers and support to keep fighting the good fight!
Amazing Randy Couture Art!
Various autographed items!
So, here’s the deal…
FIGHT CHURCH is looking for some partners to help out with our 2012 budget. We know that things are tight for a lot of people right now, that there are a ton of other great organizations out there and we just want to make sure that we take care of everyone who choose to join us in “the good fight”.
The reality is that in order to continue the amazing ministry we are doing here in Las Vegas with the MMA community, we need several individuals and churches to help us out on a monthly basis. For the last year, we have operated with just a handful of incredible people and one church helping us out. Despite having limited resources and a bare bones budget, all of FIGHT CHURCH’s goals and expectations have been blown away! That is why we are super excited to see what the Lord does this year with the addition of many more FIGHT CHURCH Fight Club members!
Now is the time to join!
So, what’s up with the pics? Simple. The super cool framed Randy Couture poster that is autographed by both Randy and the artist will go to the next person who signs up to be a $100 or more monthly sponsor. The next 10 people to sign up as a $35 or more monthly sponsor will receive one of the other autographed items. In addition, all monthly sponsors will get a FIGHT CHURCH t-shirt!
If you are interested in one of these opportunities, have any questions, or just want to chat, please send me an e-mail at josh@fightchurch.com or give me a call at 702-494-8106!
FIGHT CHURCH stepped up and ran the backroom at the TUFF-N-UFF event on 11-11-11 at the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino… it was a great night!
We had 5 people working the event! That’s the most help we have ever had. FIGHT CHURCH was able to work both the red & blue corner locker rooms, stage fighters and work ringside. A big “thank you” goes out to all our volunteers. You guys did a great job! Every event we work, every connection we make and every relationship built or deepend leads to an opportunity for lives to be changed.
More pics and details on the way!
Busy Couple of Weeks for FIGHT CHURCH
I have some super exciting news to share with you and I promise to keep things short… here we go!
First, FIGHT CHURCH has a brand new board member. His name is Pastor Brian Roberts. He is currently working with a church plant project in Minnesota. This past week, Pastor Brian, traveled here to Las Vegas to do a short “missions trip” with us in order to help out and become more familiar with our ministry. I had a great time showing him what we do here with our FIGHT CHURCH MMA Chaplain ministry. We had the opportunity to visit all our regular gyms, speak with many fighters/coaches, interview UFC fighter Justin Wren and even worked a charity fight event at XTREME COUTURE!
Pastor Brian came to Vegas because he thought that we had a great “idea” for a “potential” ministry opportunity. However, once he arrived and saw what has been accomplished over the last year with the gyms, fighters and organizations, he was very impressed and wanted to be involved. The more we shared with one another, the more we knew we were on the same page and wanted to work together. He has a passion for ministry, experience in sports chaplaincy, and is a fan of MMA. He is going to be a tremendous asset to the FIGHT CHURCH team. That is why I am excited and proud to make this official announcement!
Second, I was invited by my friend and former Kempo instructor, Pastor Pasqual, to share a little bit about FIGHT CHURCH to the Men’s Ministry of International Church of Las Vegas which runs right around 200 men. Things went very well and I met some great men. One of those men was Jayson McDonald. Jayson told me that he had been waiting for a ministry like FIGHT CHURCH to come along and that he would love to help out. So, just two days later, we put Jayson to work with me and Pastor Brian at the charity fight event. He had a great time and plans to help us out as often as possible!
Third, the end of the year is quickly approaching and we have several events, projects and purchases coming up that we absolutely need help with in order to make them possible! I will not go into detail here, but if you are interested in being a part of something amazing, shoot me an e-mail or give me a call ASAP!
Fourth, Help us out by telling your friends, family, pastor, etc. about us. Keep in mind that it doesn’t matter if they are a fan of MMA or not. FIGHT CHURCH is about loving & ministering to people! The more people that know about us and partner with us, the more we can do that! So, forward my e-mails,“friend” me on facebook and “like” our FIGHT CHURCH facebook page, follow me on TWITTER @pjoshboyd and wear one of our sweet FIGHT CHURCH shirts, which you can purchase at www.fightchurch.bigcartel.com!
Finally, I will be posting the Justin Wren interview very soon. There are a ton of events coming up including SCC 3 at the Orleans Arena on November 4th. I am so happy that FIGHT CHURCH will be working that event! It will be our very first time working with this impressive new professional MMA organization.
Please be in prayer for us. Thank you so much!