At Bright Hope, we partner with people we call “Extreme Heroes” — people who are willing to put their lives on the line to share the Gospel, serve the poor and stand beside the most rejected, marginalized people in the world.  These are the people you directly support when you partner with us.

Juana Choque Copa is a young single woman in Bolivia who left her well-paying job in the city to return to her grandparents’ home village “in the middle of nowhere,” so she could share the love and hope of Jesus Christ with the 200 people living there. She has single-handedly established a church,  feeding center, educational opportunities and community services to help the people in need.

Jephthe Lucien, our partner in Haiti,  grew up in this severely impoverished country but refuses to leave it behind.  Every day, he and his wife stand up to the challenge of overseeing their network of 23 churches.  He fights for funding to feed and educate the hungry and malnourished children in these church communities.  Jephthe battles daily against this country’s overwhelming poverty and despair.  Yet he never gives up.

Then there is our partner in North India.  He tells me that his life has been seriously threatened nine times, because he dares to stand up to religious extremists who wage war against his pastor training centers.  Yet, he continues to proclaim the Gospel to crowds of people,  hold Bible training classes and visit with his pastors in the rural villages.

Our heroes also defy the traditional definition of the word. They are the grandmothers in Kenya, living in 7×7 foot shacks in large, overcrowded slums.  These elderly women struggle every day to provide for their young grandchildren, following the early deaths of their own children through diseases such as malaria and AIDS. And they are the children all over the globe who come to school in the hope that they may someday become doctors, engineers or teachers. They are the rural mothers and fathers who wake up every morning to farm the little piece of land they have, in their daily attempts to feed their families and hopefully have a little left over to sell.

Our ministry leaders and those they serve are our Extreme Heroes, and hopefully yours as well.  They are our partners, in every sense of the word.  We stand beside them in their battle to survive one more day. Giving them support, encouragement and resources is the driving force for everyone here at Bright Hope.  It’s what ignites us, compels us and stirs us to reach out to you, our allies, to stand with us.

To learn more about our projects around the world and the people who make them possible, click here to visit our Project page and select a Country or Project Category.

Our North India partner is meeting new believers, discipling them in the Lord and training the ones who want to become pastors and teachers so they can spread the Good News of Jesus Christ to everyone they meet. This is how an entire nation will be transformed — through the sold-out lives of people excited by their faith.

Through the sacrificial work of our India partner and those they train, God is bringing Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists into full relationship with Jesus Christ. The stories of these transformations are happening every day.

Bright Hope is helping our India partner to build the pastor training center in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in the capital of Lucknow. The land has been purchased and plans are under way to build the training center. It will replace the small six-room house that is now home to the groups of students who live in its very cramped quarters. Once this center is built, more teaching and training can take place. Hundreds of these trained pastors will go out into their home communities to serve the physical, economic and spiritual needs of their people.

This center will provide the foundation for these dedicated people to go out into the surrounding communities and meet the physical and economic needs of the people there — most of whom are destitute and in great need.

We’re committing to help build the center’s lecture hall, dining room, kitchen, bathroom and dorm rooms for men and women — a total of 6,754 square feet. This building will be basic and sparse, but a great blessing for the people who are giving their entire lives to serve others.

The cost per square foot is approximately $25. Your willingness to help now will change lives for eternity in India. How many square feet can you build?

To learn more about this project and make a donation, click here.