Teamwork is building:
The City of Hope

This is what we are building: “a city of hope.” It will be a place for children who have lost parents and who have no hope, a place where lives will be transformed. This is where they can find hope. This is where we will be training and equipping pastors to transform their own villages and cities. This is where we will be training leaders so that they can transform their communities and the market place.

Join us, as we set out from base camp to ascend a vast mountain of hopelessness. Use your climbing gear with diligence, as we combine our skills and resources to transform despair in a remote area of western Tanzania into a pinnacle of life and hope. As a city on a hill that cannot be hidden, so this new city will serve as a model of development for other villages with similar needs.

Within the City of Hope, you can:

1. Purchase a brick: $50 will purchase a block for the Teamwork Children's home
2. Build the staff quarters: $25,000
3. Build the life-skills training center - $25,000
4. Build and furnish the dining hall and kitchen: $25,000
5. Build one of the suites for 6-9 children: $7,000.
6. Give toward purchasing the 200-acre farm - $100,000
7. Purchase generators and a solar power system - $25,000
8. Build a church that seats 300 people - $25,000
We also encourage building teams to go from churches, giving them a chance to see the work in progress and to help us keep our building costs down.

Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them for such is the kingdom of God. (Mark 10:14b)

The children were happy to hear about Jesus.

The trip was every bit as wonderful and life-changing as I had imagined. The most memorable experience for me was on our first Sunday when the team was divided to minister in various churches. My team was sent to Nairobi to minister to the children in a church there.

The room was packed with excited children. There were so many children that some of them had to sit on top of the bookshelves lining the back of the room. After sharing our Bible story and realizing that all of them were saved, I felt the Holy Spirit prick my heart to let me know that they needed more than just to be saved.

I knew I needed to lead these children into receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit. I did not know where to begin, so after a quick prayer for guidance, I opened my mouth and began to speak. Before I knew it, twenty minutes had passed, the children had prayed and some of them were beginning to speak in tongues! The children were encouraged to let the Holy Spirit work through them and to be powerful witnesses for Jesus.

As we were about to leave, the Sunday School teacher stopped me to say, “The children know about salvation, they know about faith, but they do not know about the Holy Spirit. I thought they were too young! Ah, if they get filled with Holy Spirit now, think of what they could do!” Those last words ring in my heart remembering the teacher’s excitement.

During the Children’s Crusade at the conference in Nakuru, every bench under the old army tarp in the courtyard was full. There were many, many little ones, and they just kept coming. We on the team and the children became fast friends as we shared our stories. The evidence of poverty did not deter their excitement. The clothes the children wore were getting pretty thin and full of holes. Some did not have shoes and many walked for hours to get to the meeting. Our hearts were breaking for these precious children who had little materially, yet had great spiritual treasures.

We realized that there really is nothing we have to offer anyone of ourselves, but then it’s not about us.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
II Corinthians 4:7

It was amazing to watch our team members grow and mature as they discovered the treasure God had put within them.

The end of the crusade came all to quickly for us. When it was over, about 100 children had received salvation and the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, and many had been healed of headaches, stomach aches, and skin diseases!

Although we returned here to America, each of us left a piece of our hearts with those precious children in Kenya. Some of us are already making plans to go next year. Would you consider joining us?