Our Congolese partners at New Hope Reconciliation Center (NHRC) are so thankful for your generosity that they have created a special video message to express their gratitude to you directly. Take a look as they show the newly-completed New Hope Academy* opening in January 2025 to our inaugural class of students! On behalf of the Congo Peace Board of Directors, I also want to thank you for your generous donations. Your support is enabling us to fund...

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!

We hope you enjoyed learning about how much has been accomplished in the South Kivu area and how Congo Peace is supporting ongoing reconciliation work. But there is still much work to do! The people of the Congo need your prayers, advocacy, and volunteer skills, as well as your donations...

Have you ever wondered how to shape a generation of peacemakers who have grown up in the heart of a hate-filled war zone? Congo Peace believes that with God's help, generations of tribal animosity can be healed and that hostile groups can move from a divided past to a shared future of stability and peace.

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.

Congo Peace, formerly New Hope Congo, is growing! New name, same mission to help break the vicious cycle of poverty and violence in the Minembwe region and beyond.

Can we expect spiritual fruit from preaching and teaching forgiveness and reconciliation while the body remains hungry and malnourished? Our answer is ‘NO, it would be like sowing seed upon rocks’. Congo Peace addresses both the spiritual and the physical needs at the same time.

One year ago - May 2021 - saw groundbreaking and the first work on the building underway, thanks to a grant from the Bel Pres Legacy Foundation. Over the months, other donations helped finish the building. Materials and labor have been locally sourced. There are some minor items...