In the middle of last summer, one of our tract club members referred the tract club
Soccer Trivia
to a teacher at a school in Ohio. That teacher called me and asked if we had a Spanish Soccer Trivia tract. I told her that we did not, but that I would consider making one. I asked the purpose of the tract. She told me that she was leading a mission trip in January to El Salvador and that they wanted to take the tract on the mission trip with them. After praying about it, it seemed like a good project to participate in.
The back of the tract was simple. We had already done a number of trivia tracts for football, baseball, basketball and hockey and all of those tracts use the same text on the back. We’d simply need to get the text translated. I contacted my translator and she did the translation for me.
The front of the tract was a bit more complicated. Unlike when I made the tracts for football, baseball, basketball and hockey, I know next to nothing about soccer. So I would have to do some research. As I researched, I realized that it was not as easy as I thought. With football, I could simply go with statistics and records. But with soccer, I was unsure if people, especially around the world would know the answers to these questions.
So, I realized that I needed some help. Where else to get help – but Facebook! Yes,
Soccer Trivia (Spanish)
I actually posted several times on Facebook that I was looking for help generating questions for a soccer trivia tract. I got several people who had some good trivia questions to use. And I got a friend who said she would ask her kids who knew a lot about soccer. In the end, I had about 6-10 questions to choose from.
Once the English version of the questions were done, I found some clip art online and laid out the tract making sure the questions would fit and there was enough room for the text to be big enough to display.
I then sent the text of those questions to my translator. In a few days, I had the translation of the questions back. I put those into photoshop, had some proof readers review everything and then had both the English and Spanish versions printed.
I packed up a box of about 3,500 tract including mostly the Spanish soccer trivia
Reading the Tract
tract, but also some English versions and a few other tracts that we had on hand and mailed them to the teacher in Ohio. At the conclusion of the mission trip, I received an email which in part states:
Thank you so much for the tracts in Spanish! The junior and senior students just returned from a mission trip to El Salvador where the soccer trivia tracts were put to good use for the Lord. I have attached some photos of the recipients of the tracts. The soccer trivia tract was a super way to introduce the gospel in a non-invasive manner. I simply started out with “Do you like soccer?” and turned it into a game of soccer trivia which lead to the most important question of where they will spend eternity. I love having this witnessing tool available and the El Salvadorians received the tract as an honored gift from a new friend. The tracts are so handsome, many people lined up to get one and they requested more tracts for others in their family. It was incredible!
We at Bezeugen count it a privilege to be a part of reaching the uttermost parts of the earth with the Gospel. It continues to amaze me how our small ministry in North Texas is being used by God to share the Gospel around the globe.
The Major League Soccer season begins in March. We are planning an outreach at the FC Dallas game. We have also included English and Spanish versions of the Soccer Trivia tract in the March mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club. Trivia tracts are a great way to start a conversation, segway to the spiritual and then share the Gospel.
Here is a secret: all of our trivia tracts have the same answers: a, b, c, b. This allows anyone to use any of the trivia tracts even without knowing any of the answers and quiz someone on the trivia questions and know if they got the right answer!
