Michelle

Michelle

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Ministry Details

Michelle works in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the Nouvelle Communaute de l’Esperance (New Hope Community) churches. She focuses on education and art therapy for trauma healing.

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Michelle partners with various organizations based in DRC, as well as across the border in Rwanda, to share art therapy programs that can initiate new ministry. She writes curriculum and instructs teachers in basic literacy and math teaching to improve the education of students in schools around her city.

The New Hope Community transforms communities of conflict with the love of Christ. They work in the inner city as well as a refugee camp on the outskirts of the city. There is an outreach and a possible future church plant in an area of constant conflict and the source of many of the internally displaced persons.

The Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo is known for its multiple rebel groups and militias that terrorize the local population and recruit child soldiers. This area is plagued with abject poverty, disease, tribal conflicts, unrest, instability, and a general mistrust of outsiders.

New Hope Community transforms communities through:

• Churches: located throughout the area.

• Leadership Training: open to church members, and the general community to teach Biblical leadership skills.

• Complexe Scolaire Espérance (Hope School): an elementary school in a former refugee and IDP camp with a feeding program that helps battle malnutrition in the poorest area of the city.

• Esther Project: a sewing project to give skills to people so they can find work or establish their own business.

• Prison Ministry: weekly ministry in the local adult and juvenile prisons.

• Trauma Healing: art, sports, and dance therapy; initiated in the Hope School and the New Hope churches, and offered to street children in order to build their capacity to overcome trauma.