Welcome!

You will now be given a Microsoft 365 account which includes your TeachBeyond email account, Microsoft Teams, and other tools.

Your temporary passwords will be sent to you in a separate email. Please begin using your TeachBeyond email and Outlook account as soon as possible as all important information (including financial transactions) will be only utilising this account.

Link & Login Instructions

After receiving your official TeachBeyond welcome e-mail, you will be sent an invitation to log into Namely, our Member Portal provider. It may take up to 5 business days for this e-mail to arrive in your inbox. When you receive it, please promptly set up your account to initiate your onboarding with TeachBeyond by clicking on the link.

This packet will walk you through the onboarding process and give you some basic information about the system. Upon your first login to the Member Portal, you will be asked to complete basic profile information. You also have the option to complete paperwork now or save for later. See below for additional information regarding these items.

If the invitation expires before you click on the link, here are the steps to take to log in: 

• Go to https://teachbeyond.namely.com.
• Type in your TeachBeyond e-mail address.
• Click “Reset Password.”
• Check your e-mail and follow the steps.
• If you are still unable to login, please contact People Services UK&IRL. 

• Be sure that your passport is current (at least 6 months beyond anticipated start date) and then scan and upload.
• If you have passports for multiple countries, please scan all pages and save in one file to upload.
• Parents: Scan your children's passports in one file and upload to the designated field.

You will receive your support schedule via email and will meet with one of the UK&IRL team to discuss and agree it. This will be used to inform your financial support raising or self-donating target and must be finalised prior to receiving final approval with TeachBeyond.

Your support schedule will include 'start-up costs'. These will include the Background check, health screen & any vaccinations, MPD resources & travel, insurance costs (medical & travel), orientation costs, a Will (if you don't have one already), flight costs, and household set-up costs. It may include a VISA. Household set-up costs can be sent to you as pay in the month preceding your departure, please discuss this with finance.

MPD is about funding your part of God’s ministry and getting people involved too!

An important part of MPD is the partnership: find at least 20 people who will commit to praying regularly for you and specifically over your support raising journey. You may eventually be asking these same people to partner with you financially but start with prayer.

The support schedule you will get will give you a target to work towards for the financial part of MPD. This document can be revised later to incorporate your specific or growing needs.

If you haven’t already, finish reading The God Ask OR Personal Support Raising Matters book/s.

Once you receive your support schedule, you will be sent more information about training. Full-time candidates are strongly encouraged to complete some level of MPD training prior to departure.

You will receive an email from Donate.US about setting up your giving page if you are raising financial support. It will be accessed through your dashboard. 

On your dashboard, select Personal Give Page from the menu on the left (making sure to select UK if this is where your donors live). Add information about your role and upload a photo. You can share your unique giving page link with potential supporters to contribute directly to your TeachBeyond account. There are options for donors to give in the U.S/Canada and South Africa.

In order for us to serve effectively as TeachBeyond members, it is imperative that we have effectively functioning technology (computers, tablets, smart phones, etc.) to be used in local ministry contexts as well as to communicate with TeachBeyond colleagues and ministry partners. The TeachBeyond IT Services Department strives to help ensure new TeachBeyond candidates are adequately prepared with their devices prior to beginning service while also providing ongoing support for members on assignment.

In order to be approved to begin service with TeachBeyond, new candidates need to complete the IT Devices Review. This requirement can be met in one of two ways:

• Complete an online self-assessment (Click here)
• Schedule a personal Microsoft Teams call with Norman Siemens (Email nsiemens@teachbeyond.org)

Help us to realise this important vision by working through a brief Safeguarding course. To access the course, click here and choose the option to enrol yourself in the course. If prompted to log in, click on the TeachBeyond Microsoft 365 button at the top.

You will need to read and sign the “Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct” at the end of the brief course to fulfil this requirement.

TeachBeyond takes seriously the duty of care for its workers. Please complete the following training based on the region in which you will be serving. This training must be completed prior to Member Approval. If you are uncertain about your region, please contact your mobilisation coach. Anyone is welcome to complete additional training beyond the listed requirements.

OST = Online Security Training courses hosted in Moodle, click below to access.

• Africa: OST 1 and OST 2, plus in-person training (you will receive additional instructions from your regional leadership team)
• Canada/US: None at this time
• East Asia: OST 1
• Europe: OST 1
• Latin America: None at this time
• West Asia: OST 1 and OST 2

If you are a salaried* member sent from the UK & Ireland office, you will be paid once a month, on the 25th (if the 25th falls on a weekend, it will happen the business day before). 

You may submit receipts for “work-related” expenses (e.g., printing and postage for prayer letters, support-raising related travel, prayer cards, passports, etc.). Please use a claim form (located in Namely under Resources > UK Finance).
finance.uk@teachbeyond.org

*salaried = receiving money from your support account monthly.

We affirm that sending missionaries is a role entrusted to the Church in Scripture, and our desire in TeachBeyond is to work alongside local churches who are sending workers into the harvest. You are an extension of your church as you serve overseas with TeachBeyond. Invite your church to be invested in your ministry even from afar.

Here are a few ways you can engage with your church both before you depart and as you serve on the field:

· Prayer: We believe that prayer changes people and situations. Commit to praying for your church as they commit to praying for you. Discuss with your church how you can share prayer requests while you are on the field. Invite them to pray for your class, your school/project, and your teammates. Ask how you can be praying for them.

· Partnership: Take the time early on to sit down with your pastor or missions point person to discuss any spoken or unspoken expectations. It is important that your church (or churches) are part of your support and in agreement with your move.

· Commissioning: See if your church would be willing to have a commissioning service for you before you depart to pray over you as you partner together in the work of transformational education. Let us know if you plan on celebrating in this way – we would love to come, if possible!

We desire that you are connected well with a local church as you prepare to begin with TeachBeyond – and that you stay in close contact as you serve with TeachBeyond. Be sure to communicate gratitude to your church for the ways in which they are partnering with you.