Empowering kids through communities of faith, hope, and love.
Empowering kids through communities of faith, hope, and love.
Join us on a mission trip in 2024:
Fill out the mission trip inquiry form or contact us for more details.
At Breakaway Outreach, we believe that a small gift can make a big difference in helping a child facing hardship begin to hope again.
Breakaway Outreach serves young people facing a myriad of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and Christmas time is an opportunity to share Christ’s love with those affected by parental incarceration, domestic violence, trauma, homelessness (transitional living), economic insecurity, and other hardship. You can join us in bringing the Spirit of Christmas to less fortunate kids by making a secure online donation, packing shoebox gifts, or volunteering at a Christmas outreach party.
or mail your gift payable to “Breakaway Outreach”:
Breakaway Outreach
Attention: Hope Again
P.O. Box 3452
Cleveland, TN 37320
Options for how you can sponsor a child in need this Christmas:
Your contribution to Breakaway Outreach is a gift that keeps on giving as children sponsored through our Christmas outreach programs are typically connected with “next step” programs that Breakaway affords, such as camps, adventure retreats, afterschool activities, and mentoring initiatives.
It’s been said by African leaders that what touches Ghana touches all of Africa!
You can support this gospel-centered sports ministry and the ongoing multiplication of disciple-making movements across the region by making a secure online donation to help us reach and build next generation leaders.
Learn more about our global initiatives here.
Most of us have heard of Babe Ruth, but few have heard of Babe Pinelli? Pinelli was an umpire in Major League Baseball who once called The Great Bambino out on strikes. When the crowd began booing in disapproval of the call, Babe turned to the umpire and said, “There’s 40,000 people here who know that the last pitch was a ball.” Pinelli responded coolly, “Maybe so, Babe, but mine is the only opinion that counts.”
In life it’s easy to get caught up in playing for the approval and the opinions of others, but in the end, it’s not our scoffers or critics by whom we will be judged, only God. This book offers 52 weekly devotions for what it looks like to play for an audience One—to seek first the approval of God over all other voices and influences in our lives.
This doesn’t mean you have no affinity or accountability to your teammates, coaches, family members, or neighbors. Playing for the audience of One means those relationships will be more deeply impacted by the fact that you are playing for a bigger purpose—the chief aim being to please your God and bring Him alone the glory in your life. Playing for an audience of One means you will bring honor to your godly leaders, while ignoring the critics, the haters, and those who are not in your corner. It will even entail overcoming your most difficult opponent: yourself (your fears, your insecurities, your doubts, your lack of confidence). None of these need to get the final word in your performance or the spiritual marathon you are running. By playing for an audience of One, you choose to put God first over all others, including those inner voices that speak contrary to God’s best intentions and His ultimate reign over your life.
Each devo comes with a prayer and questions for personal reflection or group discussion, fitting for athletes, coaches, parents of athletes, and sports ministry leaders who work with athletes. The format of the devos also work well for fostering devotional times and gospel sharing at sports camps/clinics during mission trips.
Breakaway’s 14th annual Champions Fore Kids Chattanooga golf tournament is coming up at WindStone golf club!
We are seeking “champions” with a BIG heart and a sweet stroke to tee it up for our annual Champions Fore Kids Chattanooga golf tourney. Proceeds from this golf event benefit our Breakaway Outreach ministries. By teeing it up with Breakaway, you are championing the GOSPEL for the next generation and shaping brighter futures through communities of faith, hope, and love.
Register a foursome, become a “Dream Team” partner, or sponsor a hole for the event… GO TO THE GOLF EVENT WEBSITE FOR REGISTRATION DETAILS
Maybe you cannot join us for the event but would still like to champion the mission. Here are some ways that you can be a part of our CHAMPIONS event, even if you cannot be there in person…
1. DONATE: Mail a check payable to “Breakaway Outreach,” or give securely online. You can also give in honor or memoriam of a personal “champion” in your life. We can recognize that person publicly or keep it private at your request.
2. SERVE: Sign up to volunteer as an individual or organize a mission team to champion the Spirit of Christmas among underserved children and at-risk youth during our upcoming holiday outreaches.
3. HOST: Invite us to visit your church, small group, missions conference, etc., to do a presentation about how to partner with Breakaway to champion HOPE at home or abroad in 2024. Domestic projects and international mission trips are available, too!
Thank you for your partnership!!!
WindStone Golf Club is a private club owned and operated by Tim & Wes Gilbert since 1993. The Club first opened as a fully functional 18-hole public golf course in 1989. The Gilberts took over operations in 1993 and continued in the public market. WindStone has become the premiere all inclusive private club in town.
Baseball5™ is a simple urban version of the classic games of baseball and softball, where only a rubber ball is required to play the game. This faster paced street discipline of the sport has been designed to appeal to youngsters and other fans across the world. The variant eliminates the need for traditional baseball equipment such as bats, gloves, helmets, etc. No pitcher is needed as hitting is done by hand. The sport maintains the uniqueness of baseball/softball while eliminating the structural complexities, thus making the game playable anywhere.
The discipline can be characterized as: accessible, sustainable, urban, youth-focused, inclusive, and instant fun.
The game is played on a compact playing field that requires little space for the game, the teams are small and therefore the game is fast and dynamic.
Baseball5™ is helping to drive baseball and softball to new places not possible before, which also makes it a highly impactful sport for evangelism, youth outreach, and church missions. Depending on the venue, Breakaway Outreach can facilitate Baseball5™ as a standalone sports ministry camp or provide coaches to add it as a feature to an existing ministry context such as multisport camp, English camp, student ministry, or VBS program.
Breakaway Outreach has used Baseball5™ as sports ministry in USA, Germany, Italy, Northern Ireland, England, Dominican Republic, Ghana, and Korea. Contact us if you are interested in running a Baseball5™ camp or clinic as sports ministry in your community, or if you’d like to coach Baseball5™ on a cross-cultural mission trip.
Help us finish Summer of Hope 2023 strong!!!
In August, we are running three sports camps in England and Germany. Young people are getting the opportunity to hear and respond to the life-changing message of Jesus Christ. These camps are creating sustainable discipleship pathways for youth to build relationships in gospel-centered community, and take next steps in following Jesus beyond the camps. Please consider making a one time financial gift to help these summer camps finish strong.
Simply click on the DONATE link in the menu to make a secure online donation. Thank you for partnering with us to give gospel-destitute young people the opportunity to encounter Jesus through the universal language of sports.
Vova grew up in an orphanage in Ukraine. He was adopted and brought to America when he was 15-years old. In 2021, he had the opportunity to go on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic, where he shared his testimony at an orphanage and worked with a sports ministry for underserved children. That experience captured Vova’s heart for the Dominican people and he’s never been the same since. On another visit to the DR, Vova asked God for a vision of how he can help give opportunities to less fortunate children in the region. The D.R.E.A.M. initiative was born as an answer to Vova’s prayer.
The D.R.E.A.M. (Dominican Republic Equipping Athletic Ministries) initiative aims to equip local Dominican leaders/coaches with resources to help develop young athletes through gospel-centered programs, and to mobilize sports ministry mission teams to go and serve in the DR.
Some of the D.R.E.A.M. goals include:
Here are some ways that you can partner with the D.R.E.A.M. initiative:
GIVE: You can support the D.R.E.A.M. initiative by making a monetary donation or donating sports equipment.
GO: You can go and serve with our partners in the DR, bringing gospel-centered sports ministry to youth and children.
PRAY: You can pray for God’s work in the DR. Pray for the leaders we are resourcing, the youth/children being served, and the local churches we partner with to multiply disciple-making movements through sports ministry.
In 13-Foot Coffins, Breakaway Outreach founder Jimmy Larche chronicles God’s redemptive fingerprints through childhood abandonment, abuse, and fatherlessness.
Like the ancient Roman gladiators, we don’t get to choose the arenas we fight in, but we do get to choose how we will fight, and to what honor we will uphold. Pain, suffering, and injustice are often the catalysts that God uses to birth champions of His Cause.
Born to a teenage mother, Jimmy spent most of his childhood years fatherless. But he went from one extreme to the other when his biological father remarried his mother and began a seven-year string of violent abuses. At fourteen-years-old, Jimmy ran away over 1,000 miles across the country. He eventually landed in a juvenile detention center; a place that served as a spiritual boot camp for him to begin to learn how to face his giants with grace and courage.
When we run from our giants, we rob God of the glory He longs to get from our stories. Jimmy learned that the giants of fear, bitterness, unforgiveness, anger, and a “victim-mentality” must be slain in order to find holistic recovery, ultimate freedom, and the courage to break generational curses.
There is a dance with destiny awaiting us all if we can learn to live from a forgiving heart and fall relentlessly into the arms of grace. Jesus, the master choreographer of this dance, will never waste our pain and suffering. When we allow him to redeem our past, it gives our life purpose, meaning, and an enduring legacy. Most importantly, our courage to face our giants affords God the glory He longs to gain from our lives.
Humanity is a messy place to learn how to become fully alive. Nevertheless, it is indeed a boot camp of faith; a spiritual gauntlet in which God calls every one of us to go through if we are to bear the resemblance of His Son, Jesus. And I’ve learned over the years that pain is not only an unfortunate part of this growth process; it is indeed a very necessary, vital, and essential part of our journey. My hope is that as you read this book you will come to experience the same grace I’ve experienced in discovering God’s redemptive purpose through pain and suffering, and to have the perfect peace that even when our pain doesn’t make sense, our heavenly Father’s love remains steadfast.
His love can be trusted even when a “Why” cannot be traced.
13-Foot Coffins is not necessarily my story, it’s His-story; one where I have been given the humble privilege of being an extra that points to the main character in this story: Jesus Christ. This account is a living chronicle of God’s redemptive work in a fallen world where generational curses run rampant, and specifically, His intimate dealings in rescuing a young person out of childhood trauma, and setting him free to become a difference maker in giving hope to countless others. I am no longer a victim; I am more than a conqueror through HIM who loved me out of darkness and into His glorious light (Romans 8:37). Healing, forgiveness, and freedom can be found for those who truly want to become fully alive.
Welcome to His story; one in which I serve as a humble stagehand in lifting up the unbound Healer, faithful Redeemer, and Prince of Peace: Jesus, the risen Christ!
Join me in this rich journey of grace in slaying a victim-mentality and finding your God-inspired dance with destiny!
The world is waiting!
-Jimmy Larche
Girls’ DRESSES needed…
We run a summer camp program that serves at-risk and underserved children. As part of the camp, we have a special formal dinner in which the girls get to dress up for a fancy evening (we call it “Esther’s Banquet”). Because most of the girls coming to our camp are from low-income homes, we could use in-kind donations of girls’ dresses that the girls can wear to the camp dinner, but also take home afterwards. Sizes needed are “Girls 10” through “Juniors All Sizes.” So if you have any dresses in the closet that have been outgrown and you would like to donate them to a great cause, you will have a part in restoring dignity in young girls in our community! If interested in donating, please private message us for more details and arrangements for collecting dresses.
Email: info@breakawayoutreach.com
Text/Call: (423) 400-1358