Vision

​Bethel Active Youth Ministry (BAYM) seeks to lead Rwandan youth to receive new life by faith in Jesus Christ and have it more abundantly, proclaiming the gospel through sport, planting churches and bringing about change both in their villages and country.

Mission & Goals

• Groom highly informed, responsible, impact-making and God-fearing Successor leaders that will be relevant to God and humanity.
• Train and mentor church leaders for the use of sport tool in their evangelism.
• Train our communities for disciples’ multiplication through sport.
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BAYM is an evangelical youth ministry committed to:

• Reach the unreached people by planting churches, caring.
• Showing God’s hope for the hopeless orphans, street kids, refugees’ people and widows support them physically and spiritually.
• Outreaching: Reaching out to transform the lives of youth through the love of Jesus Christ revealed on the cross of Calvary.
• Discipling: Making disciples who desire to follow Jesus Christ and imitate Him, being witnesses who proclaim the gospel through Sport.
• Fellowship: Sharing in the love of God by assisting youth into their education, foods and shelter which helps them to grow in their faith, have hope of the future and believe in the love of God.
• Equipping: Helping youth to discover and develop God-given gifts and talents that will prepare them on a lifetime God’s service and also into building up others.
• Impacting: Opening a way and providing a platform for the Rwandan youth of this generation to positively influence the region and advance the kingdom of God.
• Christ-centered education: impacting and planting Christian schools that, give education based on God’s will, God fearing, and the followers of Jesus Christ.

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Ministry Updates

Click below to see what Sawado and BAYM are doing:

2021

​January-April

• Starting sport teams children, teenagers and youth in different part of Rwanda and in a Nakivare refugee camp in Uganda, discipleship training, evangelism in different villages, street and schools.
• Mercy ministries with orphans, widows and others vulnerable people in our country and refugee camps
• Planting church, mobilizing locals church leaders for the use of sport in their evangelism​

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2024

• Coaches' training in Kigali city for 2 days and 28 coaches from different sport academies attended
  
• Pastors training in Gatsibo/eastern region
  
• Youth and children camp in Kigali city and Gicumbi/Northern region
  
• Evangelism and church planting at Nduba village/rural area of Kigali city

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History

Bethel Active Youth Ministry also known as (BAYM) is a local movement of Christians from Rwandan youth communities. We are gathered together regardless of different age groups or various Christian traditions and backgrounds. We are dedicated to serving Jesus and spreading the gospel, multiply the disciples of Jesus Christ and planting churches through sport. Also known as BAYM, we are united in a common purpose to know God and to make Him known.

Back when we started in 2010, where we began from God’s calling; the founder Evangelist Sawado NSHIMYIMANA launched a faith-based non-denomination Christian youth movement starting from his own village in the northern province of the country in Gicumbi district.

The main focus was to have many young people in Rwanda get involved in Christian missions. Today, ten years later our main focus is still in the same, but also we have expanded our vision where we are also involved in Church planting, caring for the orphans, street kids, refugees and widows to show them the hope of Jesus.

One of the joys of participating in BAYM is to work with youth and people from many Rwandan Villages eastern African countries with a different and difficult backgrounds. We are currently operating in 3 provinces of the country (Northern and Southern plus Kigali city) and 3 refugees camps (2 camps in Rwanda and church planting 1 at Nakivare refugee camp in Uganda).

About Sawado:

Sawado is married to his wife, Jolie, and they have four children.

Prayer Requests

Praises

• Pray for God's protection and wisdom for my family
  
• Pray for new church planted in Ndba village
  
• Pray for our youth and children camp

• For being part of GNP’s CSRM family
• For our ministry to spread God’s kingdom in our area​

• "Ministry is not about what you are doing, it is about who you are becoming."
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Where is Rwanda?

Population*:
12,671,000 (2020 est.) 

Religions*: 

• Roman Catholic 43.7%
• Protestant 37.7%
• Adventist 11.8%
• Muslim 2%
• None 2.5%
• Other 2.3%

Languages*:

• Rwanda
• French
• English

Wildlife*
Only a small percentage of the country is covered in natural forest vegetation. Papyrus swamps are on Rwanda’s eastern frontier and the dense bamboo forests of the Virunga Mountains to the north. There, among the volcanoes, lives Rwanda’s main tourist attraction: the mountain gorilla, protected in Parc National des Volcans.  Akagera National Park: Buffalo, zebra, impala, and other range animals, as well as baboons, warthogs, lions, and hippopotamuses.

*Britannica Online