Faith crossing borders.
Change led locally.
A partnership equipping school chaplains to bring worship, sport, prayer and Christian values into the everyday life of schools.
Working with the Anglican Church of Kenya Diocese of Mumias, Project Touchline has adapted its proven approach for a new context—placing local leadership, children’s flourishing and lasting capacity at the centre.
Joy · confidence · participation
Shared faith.
Local expression.
This is not a programme lifted from one country and simply repeated in another. Project Touchline’s sports ministry was adapted with the Anglican Church of Kenya Diocese of Mumias, enabling local chaplains to connect Christian values with the realities, relationships and school communities they know best.
A partnership built to take root.
Training, piloting and public launch created a deliberate path from shared vision to locally led delivery.
Chaplains trained
Twenty school chaplains completed comprehensive online training.
Pilot begins
The adapted programme moved into schools across Western Kenya.
Public launch
Bishop Joseph launched Project Touchline at St Stephen’s, Kamashia.
Local legacy grows
Chaplains carry the approach forward within their own communities.
What the partnership has already put in place.
These figures are deliberately limited to confirmed milestones. Further reach and outcome data can be added here when it has been verified locally.
Values children can play, practise and live.
Each session begins with Collective Worship, theologically anchoring a Christian value. Sport and purposeful games then give pupils a place to practise that value through choices, teamwork, encouragement and relationships.
More than an activity.
A joined-up experience.
Worship gives meaning to the value; sport makes it tangible; reflection helps children name what changed; local leaders embed it in school life.
Worship
A Christian value is explored and rooted in faith.
Sport
Children encounter the value through active participation.
Relationships
Choices, teamwork and encouragement make it real.
Reflection
Pupils recognise the value in themselves and others.
Daily life
Chaplains and schools carry the learning beyond the session.
Space to grow in faith and character.
Prayer is not an addition at the edge of the programme. It sits at its heart—giving pupils opportunities to be still, reflect, respond and connect faith with their own lives and wider world.
A first school.
A much wider horizon.
The launch at St Stephen’s marked Project Touchline’s first school outside the UK and a significant step in the relationship with the Diocese of Mumias. Sports equipment donated by All Saints’ Church, Bisley helped turn partnership into immediate, practical opportunity.
“The opportunity to partner with Project Touchline through sports ministry will strengthen our outreach and discipleship for children and young people in a way they can easily connect with. This partnership also demonstrates our connectedness as a global Anglican family.”The Rt Revd Joseph Wandera · Bishop of Mumias
Equipping people.
Not creating dependence.
The lasting value lies in what local chaplains can continue to lead, adapt and grow after the initial training and launch.
Global connection becomes local flourishing.
Project Touchline in Western Kenya shows what becomes possible when partnership respects context, equips leaders and gives children practical ways to connect faith, character, sport and community.