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1. USPTA US Professional Tennis Association
2. PTR Professional Tennis Registry
3. ITA Intercollegiate Tennis Association
4. TCSA Tennis Coaches of South Africa
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6. ATP/WTA-US Open
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4. Leadership and Mission Training Center for Christian Community Tennis Programs worldwide – Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA
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6.  Website development
7.  Name change to Tennis Ministry International (TMI)
7. Tennis Ball for Orphans
 

1. USPTA, is our strongest organization for fellowship.  Generally we have 40-50 attend the annual convention fellowship.  The President recently wrote to me and I believe he will assist us in anyway that he can.  The USPTA is supportive.  We now have a team of 4 organizers for this fellowship.  Various Divisions are actively promoting fellowships with their regions now, including the Florida and California with a person in Mid-Atlantic, Intermountain, and Middle States and Louisiana regions expressing an interest in being the organizer.
2. PTR last year had approximately 60 in attendance.  It is undergoing some growing pains now, as the fellowship organizers are not consistent in attending the annual meeting.  Many PTR members contact me asking if a 2003 meeting will be held.
3. ITA, Intercollegiate Tennis Association, last year just barely got of the ground.  In the past we have had 40 in attendance for the fellowship meeting.  It appears that the fellowship organizer stopped promoting and in a timely manner about 2 years ago, and in 2002 I had to step in with just 2 weeks to the meeting and had to organize it with minimum assistance.  No emails were sent to for inclusion in our database for the last two years.  Only 4 in attendance in 2003.
4. TCSA, Tennis Coaches of South Africa, fellowship had 40 in attendance a few years ago. Two organizers with one resigning recently.  In 2001 the meeting was not held with any reason given from the organizers.  It appears that this was due to organizers personal issues, which he has not shared with me.  In 2002, the organizer informed me 2 days before the meeting that it would be held, with no time for me to send an email to our database.  He informed me that very few people were involved and in fact he was under strong criticism.
5. USTA, Southern Division fellowship meeting was held in January 2003.  It was put together with about one month notice, and I have not heard a report yet.
ATP/WTA touring pro’s: The US Open fellowship will be held in August, 2003 with speakers, meeting rooms provided by the USTA, and players willing to attend and promote it to others is all set up.  Notices will be posted of the meeting at the Nasdaq-100 (Ericsson Open) in Miami in April and Wimbledon in London in June.