1999 Pan-Am Games - Winnipeg 1996 Olympics in Atlanta - 10,500 Athletes from 197 Countries for 30 sporting events.
1999 Pan-Am Games - 6,500 Athletes from 42 Countries for 41 sporting events.Games will be 16 days long. Dates ????
I. Literature
1. How much literature of each language? Make sure we have too much!
English
Spanish
Dutch
French
Portuguese
2. What kind of literature do we use? Chick (TWYL, Love Story, etc), FTL (?)II. Printing
1. Do we use one general return card with split English/Spanish or have one for each language?
2. We can print our own return cards.III. Bible Course
1. Do we write our own gospel of John or use Brother Martin's course?IV. Assembly/Storage of literature
1. At Pastor's barn.
2. At churchV. Headquarters - close to downtown as possible.
1. We need a building within reasonable distance of Winnipeg to be used as a base.
2. This building could be a church that would let us sleep there and have access to showers - perhaps a gym.
3. Our literature will be stored there during the games.VI. City.
1. What type of transportation available to the average visitor to get around town. In Atlanta there was an above ground subway system.
2. Will the city let us set up on sidewalks and handout literature or kick us out?
3. What are the Canadian laws? Can we do this legally? If not, we will have to go in teams of 2-3 with backpacks and roam throughout the day.
4. Recon the town for possible team locations.VII[a]. Distribution
1. How many people do we need?
2. How many different teams?
3. Need two wheel carts to haul boxes of tracts around.
4. Either use city transportation to put teams at specific locations or drive them personally to the site. In Atlanta, we had to do both. Some locations could only be accessed by city's transportation system.
5. Can we take two wheel carts on the city's transportation. Buses will be difficult.
6. We will most likely need a few vans to transport teams around town.
7. We could have 2 recon teams of two people who would roam the city and find good places. Some gathering spots may be good for a few hours and maybe all 16 days.VII[b]. Events
1. Will the events be scattered all over town or in a few localized areas?
2. We will need a listing of each of the games and locations.
3. Perhaps we could have a person on the media team posing as a reporter for KFBC radio. We can get inside and up to date information on the spur of the moment.
4. City maps will be a bonus.VIII. Teams
1. Perhaps we could have 5-6 separate teams with 5-6 people/team.
2. One team leader. Depending on location all members could be together or the leader could send 2-3 guys to another location nearby.
3. We would have some type of communication system so the Coordinator can have access to all personnel.Typical day in Atlanta
7:00 a.m. Get up
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Chapel - 20 min. devotion, announcements, testimonies, pray
10:30 Leave base camp
11:30 Usually set up by this time
*** ate a packed lunch at your leisure ***
5:00 p.m. Pack up and meet at pick up point
7:00 Dinner, fellowship