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GAMAID Missions
GAMAID Missions takes discipleship, teaching and free Bibles into secondary schools, universities, communities and the Uyo Correctional Facility, wherever people already are. Nobody has to sign up for anything else to be part of this, and nobody who steps back loses anything else GAMAID offers them.
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The need
Why itmatters.
Some of the students, inmates and neighbours we meet have carried their faith quietly for years, with nowhere to really live it out.
Others haven’t got there yet; they just have honest questions nobody has taken the time to sit with. We show up for both, and we don’t ask which one someone is before we do.
Faith doesn’t move in straight lines, and it rarely shows up on anyone’s schedule. GAMAID Missions exists in that in-between space: not to rush anyone toward a decision, but to be present long enough that the decision, when it comes, feels like theirs.
What we do
How the programmeworks.
7 parts to GAMAID Missions
Schools outreach
Working with God’s Lighthouse Church, we run regular discipleship sessions in secondary schools across Uyo, Eket, Abak, Ikot Ekpene and other towns. These aren’t one-off assembly visits: the same students come back, session after session, and we build on what came before.
Free Bible distribution
We hand Bibles directly to students and community members. Once it’s given, it’s theirs: no cost, no conditions. A Bible that gets underlined and carried around for thirty years does more good than one that sits on a shelf.
Institutional outreach
Inside the Uyo Correctional Facility and at the University of Uyo, we run structured discipleship programmes for people who are easy for the outside world to stop noticing. Being behind a wall, concrete or academic, doesn’t take anyone off our list.
Prayer, healing and pastoral care
Available one-on-one or in a group, whenever someone asks for it. We don’t approach people or push. When someone’s ready, we’re there.
Partnering with local churches
None of this works alone. We lean on God’s Lighthouse Church and other local congregations because the people already embedded in a community (a school, a neighbourhood, a facility) know it better than we ever could from outside. Our role is often to bring resources and structure; theirs is to carry the relationship forward long after a session ends.
Follow-up and mentorship
A single visit rarely changes anything on its own. Where we can, we try to keep a thread going: a returning volunteer, a familiar face, someone a student or inmate can actually ask a question weeks or months later, not just once.
Training volunteers
Much of this runs on ordinary people willing to show up consistently. We spend time preparing volunteers before they ever lead a session, so the conversations they have are steady and well-grounded, not improvised.
Who it is for
The peoplethis is for.
- StudentsTeenagers old enough to ask hard questions and old enough to deserve real answers, not deflections. Our schools sessions are built for that age, where faith starts getting tested against real life.
- InmatesMen and women inside the Uyo Correctional Facility who are often written off by everyone else. We don’t treat a sentence as a disqualification from being reached, taught, or trusted with a Bible of their own.
- University studentsAt the University of Uyo, we work with young adults navigating faith away from home for the first time, often without the structures (family, home church, familiar accountability) that shaped them growing up.
- Community membersNeighbours in Eket, Abak, Ikot Ekpene and beyond who want prayer, pastoral conversation, or simply a Bible, outside of any institutional setting.
- Anyone with questions, and no obligations attachedThis is for anyone who wants it, and strictly for those who do. Coming to a GAMAID Missions session, service or conversation is never a condition attached to any other support GAMAID provides. Someone can walk away from this specific programme, and every other door GAMAID has opened for them stays exactly as open as it was before.
Get help
How to get help, or refer someone.
WhatsApp the office0810 864 5616Help is never conditional on faith. Other ways to reach us
Just talk to a GAMAID staff member, or message the office and we’ll sort out times and locations. Referring someone works the same way: send us a name and we’ll take it from there.
How we work
We try to keep this simple: show up consistently, teach clearly, give freely, and let people decide for themselves what they do with it. We’re not measuring this in decisions made or Bibles handed out. Those numbers matter less to us than whether someone actually felt free to ask the question they came with.
Fund missions
Every gift hereis spent on missions.
A gift to GAMAID Missions stays with GAMAID Missions. It pays for Bibles, discipleship sessions inside correctional facilities, and pastoral conversations most people never hear about. Nothing gets redirected or folded into a general fund.
Card, bank transfer or USSD in naira; dollars or pounds from abroad; PayPal, Zelle or GoFundMe from the US.
We will show what a gift pays for once the costs are confirmed against our records.
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