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Co-Impact Teams

Working Together for Community Impact

Co-Impact teams offer North Americans a volunteer opportunity to participate firsthand in furthering the ministry goals of EduDeo and its international partners. Whether you’re a part of a construction team or champion team, you are co-workers in God’s service with our partners, working together to impact each other and global communities.

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Support Partner Priorities

EduDeo’s work is driven by service to our international partners. We want to understand their visions and missions and the priorities they identify and let that guide our work and relationships. Our partners understand their communities and contexts best.

Reframe Your Perspectives

We desire your team to enter partner spaces with a posture of humility and a desire to learn and be shaped. Your team supports and encourages partners, leaders, teachers, students, and community members through the ministry of presence. On a Co-Impact team, you get to experience the global community of God and find your place in it.

Engage in Project Activities

Participants play a small and vital role in a larger, ongoing story by contributing to partner’s ministry activities. The EduDeo-approved projects (whether construction or other activities) you work on have been identified by partners as priorities for the community. Our partners desire for us to come alongside them in their existing work. 

What's in a Name? How HANDS Became Co-Impact

Early on in EduDeo’s history, short-term service teams were a crucial to growing our international partnerships and our domestic support base. These teams focused on construction projects that built up existing partner schools. The HANDS (Helping Another Nation Develop Schools) program name was born out of a focus on teams coming alongside international partners to help them grow schools and grow their impact on students.

As EduDeo grew, we saw a need for HANDS to become a more holistic program. Helping focuses on a community’s need, instead of their strengths and assets. Not only that, but our program was growing beyond just school construction to encompass other types of short-term service.

In 2022, HANDS officially became Co-Impact. “Co” signifies togetherness. Both teams and international partners and communities work in equal partnership with each other. “Impact” signifies the program’s end goal. Teams, partners, and community members will experience impact in their own way. For as the program's anchoring Bible verse tells us: “We are co-workers in God’s service.” (1 Corinthians 3:9). We work together for personal and communal impact.

Serving others, leaving your comfort zone, being God’s image, helping fix the bathroom; whatever you do, it makes an impact. It’s not all about money, it’s about the ministry you’re doing. It’s about what you’re leaving. It’s about what you’re instilling in the students and the community. Just coming to our school leaves an impact. That’s what is most important.

– Maria, teacher, Belize

Our journey in Zambia was a testament to the expansiveness of the Kingdom of God. It goes beyond geographical boundaries and manifests through acts of love, service, and unity. Our hearts overflow with gratitude for the privilege of serving, learning, and growing alongside our Zambian brothers and sisters. It has left an indelible mark on our souls, shaping us in ways we never thought possible.

– Kara, Co-Impact team member, Zambia

When we gather, we have our faith and our Saviour in common, and that completely unites us. It’s truly a beautiful thing and I hope that everyone someday can experience it.

– Phil, Co-Impact team leader, Belize

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Reach out to our Co-Impact team to ask questions, learn about upcoming Co-Impact projects, and to get your church, school, or group involved!

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