INTERVIEW: Gareth "Angel" Thompson is bringing Faith and Wrestling together with GTMinistries and The Bradford Church of Wrestling
Cultaholic Wrestling
Cultaholic
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Gareth "Angel" Thompson spoke exclusively to Cultaholic Wrestling's Tom Campbell about the Bradford Church of Wrestling, GTMinistries and how faith and the graps come together.
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| 0:00.0 | The future is unpredictable at times that the Open University are the experts in |
| 0:06.8 | distance learning allowing you to fit study around your life. What's more you'll |
| 0:12.3 | have support from dedicated tutors every step of the way. |
| 0:16.0 | Now, suddenly your possibilities are open. |
| 0:20.0 | Search the Open University to find out more. |
| 0:23.0 | The Open University, the future is open. Two main things that have helped me get my life back on track have been wrestling and the church and the driving force behind the training school is sharing my story |
| 0:46.4 | using my past to help others by bringing them into the school and helping them through |
| 0:51.0 | those struggles and issues I had as a kid. |
| 0:53.3 | And not everyone who comes in is religious and that's fine. |
| 0:57.2 | But maybe just maybe one of those people who walks through the door |
| 1:00.8 | hears something that could be the start of their journey. |
| 1:04.0 | Garret Angel is a character, what I want him to represent and what I hope he represents is hope. We've been trying for a little while now to realize this vision of wrestling church. |
| 1:30.0 | So I'm thinking, you know what, what can we do as a bunch of wrestlers who go to church how can we make it fun? |
| 1:39.0 | The Academy is growing and what really excites me is that we've got this community of |
| 1:43.9 | people who are coming together to support each other through life's issues and |
| 1:47.4 | whatever it throws at us and that's just awesome. In Bradford there is a project that is bringing together faith, mental health and wrestling, all under one roof, all under a church |
| 2:06.0 | roof which makes it all the more intriguing. I'm here talking to the man behind it from GT |
| 2:10.8 | ministries, it's Gaz Angel Thompson. GAS how you doing? |
| 2:14.4 | I'm good mate. How are you? |
| 2:16.2 | I am really good. Thank you. We've just heard a little bit on the |
| 2:18.7 | podcast from the show that you did on for BBC about the project and the one thing initially is |
| 2:27.7 | in an hour aesthetically pleasing wrestling in a church isn't it? |
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