Teams

In October, a team of 12 from Westbow Capital hopes to travel to Kenya led by HFL leader Jason Krul. During this trip, the team plans to visit a variety of projects that have been funded by Westbow over the past several years in Nairobi, Siaya and Yogo. The team will also participate in some widow visits, visit a children's home and see the completion of the high school in Siaya.

In October 2024, Tenth Church is facilitating a Justice Journey to Cambodia, with the purpose for everyone participating to grow deeper in spiritual formation through healthy relationships, and wider through giving time to serve others. The focus is on developing the capacity of local and global partners. This year's justice journey has three objectives:

1. Redemptive Entrepreneur Training and Coaching: Cambodian leaders connected to Tenth Church with a 3-day business and spiritual accelerator, enriching their understanding of redemptive social entrepreneurship and helping their ventures become more sustainable and impactful.

2. Partnership with VillageWorks: The team will conduct workshops with VillageWorks, a social enterprise that empowers people with disabilities by creating sustainable livelihoods through upcycled and recycled handcrafted goods. Our goal is to strengthen this important partnership and support their innovative efforts.

3. Strategic and Relational Support: The team will offer coaching and strategic planning to existing partners, helping them to scale their innovative ventures and achieve their missions.

The YAC team will be travelling to Ensenada, Mexico and serving at the El Refugio (The Refuge), a safe house for at-risk girls ranging in ages from 6–18. During the week, the team will be living life with the girls and also participating with in various other ministry work with the girls. These Ministry projects include visiting a rehab centre, a migrant camp, seniors home, and youth centre. The team will also be spending time with the community kids, sharing bible stores, playing games and having fun with crafts.

Our Dominican Partner Proinfancia is organizing a 3-day summer camp for 70 girls from the Batey villages Vasca and Paraiso.

The girls in those communities grow up in difficult living conditions, which makes them more at risk of teen pregnancy.

GIVE plans to send a team of ladies to work alongside Proinfancia in running this camp.

During this camp the girls will do fun acitivities as well as different training programs that will make a positive impact on their lives. The girls will learn about pregnancy and feminine hygiene, and focus on Christian life values.

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Empowering change! The EVE team travelled to the Dominican Republic to work alongside Hungry For Life's partner organizations: Pro Infancia, Empowering Action, and Fudesa Ministry located close to Santo Domingo. The team embarked on a transformative journey the first week of June 2024  with the goal of fostering safe and supportive environments where violence is not considered common place. The goal was to support the work of local organizations in empowering the community leaders to develop and transform their community. The team held group sessions with community leaders to educate about violence awareness and prevention, as well they taught in the elementary and middle schools, and supported care and compassion projects for at risk families.

In March 2024, a team of 12 people from the Calvin Christian Community Group travelled to the Dominican Republic to partner with Carlos Pimentel.

The team worked on a variety of hands-on projects in the different communities where Haitians and Dominicans live in poverty and don't have access to many basic necessities.

Coming alongside the local church and leaders in these communities, the team helped at the local school, construction, maintenance, and the distribution and training of Days For Girls kits.

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Six team members from the Fraser Valley Group travelled to the Ukraine to support the ongoing emergency relief efforts. They met with our partners in the country, who they have known for years in order to support and encourage them through prayer and spending time together. In addition they spent time with 50-60 parents of fallen soldiers as well as hosting a week of rest and spiritual retreat for social workers and then a week of the same for pastoral couples. The team supported these partners by providing a retreat and time of rest for them, away from their daily lives.

In March 2024 a team from Renew Church travelled to the Philippines to work along side Strong Roots Ministry. The team participated in a house build, food hamper distribution, school feeding program, after school program, Grade 6 English tutoring, volleyball ministry, camped with a group of boys, and taught Sunday school classes.

A team of 25 youth and leaders from the Heritage Reformed Church of Jordan, Ontario travelled to the Dominican Republic in March 2024. Te team worked alongside our partners in a variety of community development projects, children's ministries and school construction projects.