To bring hope, healing and well-being / Mauri ora by providing accessible, professional support for individuals, couples and families through counselling and education.

Coming together in a safe community of sharing, reflecting, laughing and crying helps us on our journey towards more fully understanding our father in heaven, and ourselves. We have a creche available, resource library, scrumptious baking, and of course great coffee.
Wednesday 9:30 – 11:30am, at BBC.

Encore is a social group for seniors. Encore is about giving people the opportunity to become friends through: Sharing, fellowship, afternoon tea, and guest speakers. Held on the first and third Tuesday each month, at Bethlehem Baptist Church.

Kai Manga, functions as a blessing to people who may need prepared meals or non-perishable grocery hampers. It is run by BBC volunteers and is available to us only because of the generosity of others. We are not a food bank, we aim to help people connected to BBC and its ministries specifically as we have limited resources.

Alpha NZ is named for it’s core course Alpha. This is a practical introduction to the Christian faith. It’s not just lectures but is totally interactive. Lots of discussion is involved and you will get the chance to ask every question you have. No question is too simple and/or too hostile!

Over 25 million people worldwide have now attended an Alpha Course. Alpha is an opportunity for anyone to explore the Christian faith in a relaxed setting over a series of thought-provoking weekly sessions.

Talullah 2 is our second-hand clothing shop located on 121 Waihi Road. All proceeds from the shop directly support numerous programs & community initiatives throughout Tauranaga & overseas. Please remember us when you are sorting out your clothing at change of season or any time.

EPIC-LAN events bring High School aged gamers together to enjoy what they love doing, in a safe and friendly environment. A typical EPIC-LAN event runs for 12 hours, has gaming tournaments with prizes, a manly feast and a guest speaker. Our goal is to be the connection between young gamers and the church. Please check out our FB page for photos, information about up and coming events and contact information for our Team.

Cool Bananas provides an interactive 30 minute session in primary schools that includes storytelling, object lessons, memory verses, multimedia presentations, drama, bible lessons, and GAMES!

Mainly music is a fun music group for parents or primary care givers to enjoy together with their young child. Throughout the session, children develop gross and fine motor skills, language, imagination, mathematical and pre-reading skills – as well as socialise with others.

ICONZ is an action, adventure, activity and values-based programme for kiwi men and kiwi boys. ICONZ allows boys to be boys. It’s not mamby-pamby or flaky. It is faith, blood, mud, fire, water, speed, smash and build. Our boys enjoy a wide range of action, fun, games, life skills, leadership and competition – all the stuff which they are really into, and need to become true kiwi icons.

Good Neighbour Trust provides practical support to people who need it – one person, one family at a time. We are involved in a number of neighbourhood projects throughout Tauranga including – Food rescue, community gardens, and wood splitting.

The Tarore Story project offers the Tarore Story book including the Gospel of Luke, written in both Te Reo Maori and English, as a free gift. Our desire is for the reader to find freedom in what is written in the book from burdens they may be carrying. The message in this book can bring peace now as it did in Tarore’s time.

If you would like to receive your own personal copy of the Tarore Story we’ll post it free of charge to you, simply got to tarorestory.org.nz/get-a-book/ and complete the form.

The CAP Money Course is a free, revolutionary money management course that teaches people budgeting skills and a simple, cash-based system that really works. This course will help you prioritise the things that are important to you, manage any debt that you have, live well within your means and save for your future – just as it has for thousands of New Zealanders!

Angel Tree is a program of Prison Fellowship that connects parents in prison with their children through the delivery of Christmas gifts. In most cases, local church volunteers purchase and deliver gifts and the Gospel to children in the name of their prisoner-parent. We make an annual commitment to this highly rewarding program, and recognise it as a way to care for some of the most overlooked members of our communities.

Open Home Foundation International is a non-denominational Christian organisation that works to ensure that children everywhere can belong to a family where they are safe and loved, receive good health care and good education and know that God loves them.

NZBMS is denominational overseas mission organisation of the Baptist Churches of New Zealand. Sitting under NZBMS as the parent ‘brand’ are 4 arms or entities, each with a different focus.
• Tranzsend – sending and ministry
• Banzaid – aid and development
• Mission World – resourcing and mobilising
• Marketplacers International – business

Freeset is a fair trade business offering employment to women trapped in Kolkata’s sex trade. We make quality jute bags and organic cotton t-shirts, but our business is freedom! We would like to see the 10,000 sex workers in our neighborhood empowered with the choice of leaving a profession they never chose in the first place.

Steiger is a worldwide mission organisation that is called to reach and disciple the “secularized global youth culture” for Jesus. Steiger uses art, music and other forms of creativity to present Jesus in a clear and relevant way, and establishes a long-term presence in urban centers through ongoing outreach, discipleship and church planting.

Marine Reach, the maritime arm of Marine Reach Ministries, is a volunteer Christian organisation of professionals and dedicated individuals using waterborne vessels to demonstrate the hope and compassion of Jesus Christ to those in need around the world via oceans, seas, lakes and rivers.

Ruel Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to funding and providing surgical care for children in developing nations with physical deformities. At the Ruel House, we provide shelter and love for severely malnourished children needing emergency medical care, and unwanted children who are waiting to be placed in loving and accepting homes.

Justice Reach is a New Zealand-based not-for-profit that’s committed to raising awareness, providing training, and facilitating outreaches in order to bring God’s love, hope, freedom and justice to those trapped in Modern Day Slavery, (human trafficking) both in New Zealand and internationally. Our current focus is on the child sex trade in Southeast Asia.

Watoto is a holistic child care ministry birthed out of a local church in Kampala, Uganda. It was initiated as a response to the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda. Watoto provides physical, educational, spiritual and emotional care for vulnerable children. Currently, Watoto is caring for approximately 1,800 orphans in Uganda.

Date: January 2019
Interested in exploring the different facets of mission? Then this is an excellent opportunity for you!

We are preparing a team that will head over to the Philippines in January. Once there they’ll partner with a church in Manilla, where they’ll minister at a Sunday service, join them in their ministry to a rural village and outreach to a community living on a Manila rubbish dump.

We will also be working alongside the Ruel Foundation, lending a helping hand doing whatever is needed. Last time the team did some painting, took the older children on a trip to the beach, cuddled and fed babies as well as led devotions with the children and staff. We aim to jump in and provide support where ever we can.

Date: 6th – 16th June 2018

We are in the process of forming another team to head over to Vanuatu.

The team will be working with Marine Reach who are currently building a Regional Training & Medical Centre just outside of Port Vila.

This centre will include:
– Rooms for emergency shelter for women and their children for whom it is not safe to stay in their homes.
– Training facilities to help empower the local women and families,
– A diagnostic laboratory that will be capable of testing for tropical diseases and also DNA testing – to enable police to prosecute rape cases as there is no DNA testing available anywhere.

The team will be doing a variety of finishing work on the centre, including putting together flatpack kitchen cabinets & building shelving etc. We need builders, electricians, plumbers, and people who have some practical skills.

Cost is expected to be $2000 max, hopefully, less, depending on available airfares at time of booking.