Dear ,
Today is GivingTuesday—a day created in 2012 to simply encourage people to do good. Since then, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of
millions of people to give, collaborate and celebrate generosity! It's a day when many of our friends around the world make a year-end gift to help us finish the year strong.
This year, our funding goal for this month is a little over $15k. If you're already a regular giver - THANK YOU!
When you donate, your support allows us to do a number of things:
- Raise up new chaplains — essentially planting a pastoral person in an organization of 50-100+ people. It costs $3k to discover, develop, and deploy a
volunteer chaplain in soccer. We are actively working on 5 chaplain placements for 2026.
- Retain chaplains in the field — Soccer Chaplains United operates on a lean budget. Our annual cost to support a chaplain in the field is $750 per chaplain, but we often have to make cuts in this area due to funding. As we've grown to over 25 chaplains, this has become a
more significant part of our budget.
- Explore new opportunities — there are several professional leagues and teams that do not have chaplains serving. Your gifts help us to make those initial outreaches and conversations.
- Enhance local and global church missions — your gifts help us to send soccer gear, Bibles, and other tools for the local church to use in mission team endeavors.
Recently, former MLS player and current SCU Board Member, Wells Thompson shared a message that we'd like to share with you.
