Global Sports Chaplaincy Association provide pastoral care and support to sports communities across our world by identifying, training, appointing and guiding Sports Chaplains who are available as volunteers to serve these teams at all levels. Sports Chaplains provide free, accessible pastoral care, support and mentoring to athletes, staff officials and their whānau on-site and at the point of need irrespective of religion, lifestyle and beliefs.

The effect of Sports Chaplains placed in sports communities has improved mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing leading to better people, better lives, better outcomes and better communities. Sports Chaplains are not sports psychologists, replacements for player welfare officers or trained counsellors, Sports Chaplains act as first responders to assist people in need to professional services. Some of the services Sports Chaplains provide are: grief, loss and bereavement support; critical incident response and recovery; life-skills mentoring; mental wellbeing support; suicide awareness and intervention; home and hospital visitations; transitions in life and career guidance and support.

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Joyya is committed to catalysing the transformation of communities in West Bengal, India, where people are oppressed and disadvantaged by extreme poverty and exploitation. They believe that access to education plays a vital role in long-term and sustainable change. Their Child Sponsorship Programme was established by Freeset and, for many years, has supported some of the most vulnerable children of the organisation’s employees. In 2021, as Freeset ends, these children will continue to be supported through Joyya’s educational initiatives. Increasingly, Joyya will be expanding the programme to include any child who is living in one of the four communities in which we are based (Dhuliyan, Khal Par, Ram Bagan and Sonagachi).

Joyya seek to increase the capacity of each child by connecting them to the educational intervention that best meets their needs and develops their potential. Examples of educational intervention include: helping children access the best local government schools; assisting families to buy books and uniforms; supporting a child to access hostel-based education when the home environment is unsafe. They are committed to these children for the duration of their schooling and are currently committed to approximately 40 children, but their vision is to build a programme that enables every child in their four communities to benefit from a good education. They are also developing pathways to specialist education facilities for children demonstrating exceptional potential or exceptional need.

Upon completion of schooling, Joyya are working to establish a scholarship scheme to see young women and men pursuing further education at reputed colleges and universities. Through their Child Sponsorship programme, they believe that the cycle of poverty and exploitation will be disrupted, and our communities will begin to find release from generational oppression.

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SIM exists to bring the gospel to places where Christ is least known. SIM has been around for about 130 years, with about 4000 people involved in sharing the gospel all over our world. Andrew Smith, who we support as part of our Beyond The Walls Ministries both financially and through prayer, is an Information Technology Specialist for SIM. He helps administer and maintain their Office 365 systems and Intranet; plus many other support functions including looking after SIM New Zealand’s IT needs. There are always major and minor projects happening—currently these are upgrades to their financial systems, security and personnel databases. There is a fair bit of travel involved as well.

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The Northern Baptist Association's key objective is to support churches and pastors so that they are healthy, growing and focused on mission. Their main resource is in their experienced and expert coaching staff. They cover areas of youth, young adults, children & families, finance, multicultural inclusion, as well as more general church issues of pastoral search, pastoral support, conflict resolution and administration. The Association also has specified funds that can be given as small grants or loans to churches. The Baptist Foundation provides grants to Baptist community ministries in the region. It encourages discerning and interpreting the needs and opportunities of God’s gospel activity in a church’s local area. It has resources such as an eldership performance reviews, as well as a pastor review package.

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The Baptist Theological College (BTC) started as a Bible school by early local Christians on 15 February, 1944. Today, it’s a College that offers two courses—a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree and a Certificate in Church Music (CCM). BD runs for 4/5 years (depending on the secular degree) and CCM is offered for one year. In 2020-2021, there were 228 students consisting of 112 women and 116 men. There are 12 faculty and 9 staff members.

It’s an international and ecumenical community, represented by 25 people groups from different denominations and countries. It’s a College that believes and promotes the Gospel values of human dignity, mutual respect, and equal opportunity for all members. Apart from curricular education, BTC has various capacity building programs to prepare students for multi-dimensional leadership for both local and global contexts. BTC is privileged to receive financial support towards students’ education from WPBC. We pray that the mission work done 'beyond the walls' (of WPBC) will yield great reward for the church and great harvest for the ministry of the Gospel.

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