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Overseas Missions

Hope’s missional efforts extend well beyond the borders of the United States. Through our overseas missions, Hope longs to bring the redemptive gospel to every race, nation, tribe, and tongue. Abroad, our renewal efforts include evangelism, medical clinics, church planting, training of native missionaries and pastors, language and skill education, children’s ministry, and so on.

Each year, Hope sends a team of short-term missionaries to Cote d’Ivoire and Asia. We have established long-term partnerships with established missionaries in those regions, and our objective is to facilitate them in achieving their missional goals.

Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

Hope is currently in a long-standing partnership with Abidjan International Ministries (AIM). Led by Reverend Peter Paek, this organization is made up of Korean tentmakers who have answered God’s call to serve the native Ivorians. While they do much of the legwork themselves, it is the philosophy of AIM not to do all of the work themselves. Rather, their strategic goal is to empower local Ivorians to become the main missionaries to their own countrymen. To that end, AIM has planted a seminary that has trained the citizens of Cote d’Ivoire as well as citizens from some of the surrounding West African nations. It is also understood that if missionaries can affect Cote d’Ivoire, they can reach most of West Africa, as Cote d’Ivoire is considered the financial and cultural hub of that region. AIM has also directly planted ten churches, each of which are run by locally trained pastors. These church plants, in turn, have grown to plant additional sister-churches, bringing the total number of planted churches to more than forty!

Over past four years, Hope has partnered with AIM on various projects. Since 2006, Hope has collected a special offering once a month to help fund the construction of a new church plant in the city of Anyama. This particular church plant (the largest of its kind) is strategically placed in a part of the city that is known for its poverty and high Muslim population. This church plant was completed in 2009 and has been given the name Hope-Anyama Church.

Starting in late 2009, Hope has partnered with AIM on another building project. Each month, we are collecting money to help fund the construction of a Muslim Convert Shelter. In Cote d’Ivoire, when Muslims convert to Christianity, they are oftentimes disowned by their families. Rather than have them wander the streets, AIM wants to provide for them a half-way house. This shelter would be located in their Anyama Community Center, which contains the Hope-Anyama Church as well as a school that offers training in job skills and English. AIM will use this shelter and the community center to help these new converts to get back on their feet and start a new life in Christ.

During the summers, in addition to these projects, Hope partners with AIM and various churches around the globe to send a trained team of short-term missionaries. This short-term team (usually anywhere between 50-100 people) travels around the country evangelizing and holding medical clinics, revivals, and children’s ministries. This past year, Hope got heavily involved with the medical portion of the short-term trip. We sent two nurses and a general surgeon. This small team partnered with native Ivorian doctors and other medical professionals from Canada. This past summer, this combined medical team performed forty-five hernia surgeries free of charge, along with other medical services. Also, throughout the year, Hope and various churches send lecturers to teach at the seminary established by AIM. Finally, Hope serves as a training hub for short-term and eventually long-term missionaries to Cote d’Ivoire.

Asia

Because of the sensitive nature of mission work in Asia, we will not be able to provide any information publicly.