Congo Peace Updates

***UPDATE***

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Save the date!!!  We are excited to anounce that Spirit of Congo 2024 is officially on the books for Saturday, October 12, 2024 from 6:00-8:30 pm at the Bellevue College in Bellevue, Washington. 

Mark your calendars now and we'll let you know when tickets go on sale in July. 

You won't want to miss another fun evening of dinner, African praise, music and an inspiring presentation. Help us support Congo Peace’s mission to promote, support, and commit to a permanent reconciliation in the South Kivu of East Congo. 

We are so close! And yet we still have much to do in the South Kivu region of Congo! With your support and contributions (over $120,000 last year), our Congolese partners at New Hope Reconciliation Center (NHRC) have begun construction on the New Hope Academy in the regional capital of Bukavu. The first story is substantially complete; we plan to open the doors this fall! This school will enable young men and women from hostile tribes to live together in a Christian environment while gaining entrepreneurial and vocational skills. They will be equipped to build exemplary livelihoods, fostering a new generation of peacemakers in East DRC. God is at work!  

But a school is more than just a building!  NHRC still needs to purchase desks, chairs, materials, curriculum, and equipment for vocational training such as sewing machines, computers, and furnishings for the dormitory facilities. They also must hire teachers and staff to support the students. To accomplish this Congo Peace needs roughly $41,000. Your support is needed more than ever to make this school a reality.  

In addition to building and equipping New Hope Academy, NHRC continues its vital work bringing the reconciling message of Jesus to the South Kivu area through weekly radio broadcasts, visits to villages and churches, and support of local agricultural co-ops.

NHRC’s Children’s Assistance program has placed 40 children, orphaned by tribal violence, with local families.  Your support provides those families with food, school supplies, celebrations, and spiritual support and supports 10 children awaiting placement with families. These children receive love and provision at the NHRC in Minembwe (built with your support several years ago) until families can be identified for them. 

12-year old Ajabu from the Babembe tribe reports, “I have new friends from other tribes-Bafuliru, Banyindu, and Banyamulenge-who are like brothers and sisters. I am performing well at school, and am dreaming to become a peacemaker when I will be an adult.” We hope to grow New Hope Academy so that Ajabu and his friends may come live and learn together in peace! 

We – Congo Peace’s all volunteer staff and NHRC- are grateful for the faithful support of our donors!  But we are still running with perseverance the race marked out for us!

 Please pray and donate today to continue this vital reconciliation work and expand the vocational training to the young people from multiple, warring tribes. Through education, they can establish common ground and return to their homelands with skills and new opportunities for sustainable livelihoods to help break the cycle of poverty and violence.  

Learn Together. Live Together.

A vocational training center and boarding school rises on recently purchased property near Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), thanks to our generous donors. It will be a place where young men and women from all tribes can learn together while they live together, eventually working together on common goals and entrepreneurial enterprises.

The mission of Congo Peace, formerly New Hope Congo, is to break the vicious cycle of poverty and violence by fostering economic opportunity and stability, guided by Christ’s reconciling love, in addition to providing emergency relief when needed.

Congo Peace, formerly New Hope Congo, is growing! Visit us often to learn more about how we are helping to break the vicious cycle of poverty and violence in the Minembwe region and beyond in the South Kivu province in the DRC.

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Every day our hearts are broken as we witness the devastating destruction and displacement taking place in Ukraine. Yet over 3800 miles from Kyiv, in South Kivu, Congolese men, women, and children are bravely enduring similar daily tragedies. Though bombs from a superpower do not rain from the Congo sky, the havoc created by unchecked hostile tribal factions within the country results in the same devastation and loss. The people of both regions are engaged in a struggle to maintain hope in the face of great adversity. As followers of Jesus, we long to make a difference!