Hope 2025

Welcome to our official online team page for the Hope 2025 Co- Impact team, which is travelling to Zambia on 2025-02-15. From this team page, you can learn more about our team members, the goals of our service in Zambia, and follow along with team blog posts and photos.

You can support Hope 2025 through an online donation, as well as words of encouragement and prayer for the work that we will be a part of .

FUNDRAISING GOAL: $76,375

FUNDS RAISED: $80,626

100.0% of goal reached

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Our Team

Lora Adams

Member

Mark Grift

Member

Jerry Poelman

Leader

Francisco Rey

Member

Philip Roemmele

Member

Anita Slomp

Member

Clarence Slomp

Member

Conrad Van Hierden

Member

Troy Vandellen

Member

Haley Vandenberg

Member

Gerald Vandervalk

Member

Patricia Vandervalk

Member

Blog Posts

Packed and getting ready to go

Packed and Ready!!

On our way!!

After several delays and a wrong shuttle, we made it to our layover hotel in Toronto in the wee hours of the morning. Now...

Travel to Lundazi

Traveling from Lilongwe, Malawi to Lundazi, Zambia is an experience filled with the richness of local culture, the beauty of the landscape, and the...

Feb 18 - Orientation day

An amazing breakfast of omelettes, bread and honey. Partially ruined by thoughts of soggy bread in cream (thanks Troy!) 😀

Feb 19, First Day of Laying Bricks!!

We discovered this morning that the steady bearing for the bus was fixed, so we should be good for the trip back to Malawi...

Feb 20, more bricks, more fun!

As the day broke on the fifth day of our mission, we gathered once more for a delicious breakfast and our daily devotions. Today’s...

Feb 21, awesome progress!

Todays' Blog post by Haley: Three days after beginning to lay bricks, the outer walls are nearly complete. Today, we continued mixing...

Feb 22, bricks and village visits!

Welcome to day 7 of our trip! Today we had another delicious breakfast served by the amazing CCAP staff and then headed out from...

Feb 23 - Sunday, worship and rest day!

Wow! Day 8! What an emotionally enriching and restful day! Today, we woke up, had a quick breakfast, and in true Canadian fashion,...

Feb 24 - School visit and back to work

Today's blog post brought to you by Gerald and Patricia Vandervalk

Feb 25 - Mwase School visit and MORE BRICKS!!!

Our morning devotional today centered on keeping wise friends (proverbs 13.20), and despite the joking remarks this might bring on, I think we are...

Feb 26 - Closing Ceremonies and farewells

Well, here it is, wd have arrived at an end. The final day of work and closing ceremonies at Chimoza school before beginning the...

Feb 27 - First day of travel

It was a long day of travel. We left CCAP compound at 6 am and began our trek to Chipata for a...

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