HOPE International

Our 2025 annual report is here! In the final year of our Dreaming Beyond initiative, God did more than we could have imagined. Despite global conflict and uncertainty, God worked through the HOPE network to restore dignity, bring hope, and create opportunity for families around the world. 📖

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Read the full report: https://hopeinternational.org/financials

We’re praising God for how savings groups in Zambia are helping families break cycles of poverty while growing deeper in their faith!🤝

Recent survey data shows that 75–80% of members now say they have strong hope for the future, and 94% say they have someone helping them grow in their relationship with God—a beautiful picture of community and discipleship.

Across the HOPE network, savings groups create spaces where neighbors support one another, build a financial safety net, access loans, and encounter the love of Christ in practical ways. As these groups multiply, even more families are equipped to start businesses and grow in their faith.

Pictured: a member of the Blessings savings group in Zambia

Partnering with and learning from other amazing, mission-aligned organizations is one of the best parts of our work. Take our partner in the Philippines, the Center for Community Transformation (CCT), for example.

For 35 years, CCT has invested in Filipino families with a variety of Christ-centered financial tools. And in 2024, they expanded their reach to provide families in isolated tribal groups with a safe place to save. Two years later, 19 savings groups made up of over 1,000 people are meeting regularly to hear Scripture and save together!

Join us today in thanking God for CCT and praying for Him to do even more than we could imagine through their work in the Philippines. 🙏

Pictured: the Población T'boli Fellowship Group.

This Mother’s Day, we’re celebrating the strength and generosity of mothers and mother figures around the world—women whose care extends far beyond their own households.☀️

Rev. Dr. Nelly Sarune, a client of SMEP Microfinance Bank PLC , HOPE’s microfinance institution in Kenya, is one of them. Since 2020, she has grown her café and chicken business and even built a home for her elderly mother. Her businesses also help sustain her ministry work, including supporting around 20 children and teens with housing, clothing, food, and education.

“The children that I'm taking care of—we have started small shops, and it's my prayer for them to be future great businessmen and businesswomen. … What I am doing is empowering those young people.”

We thank God for women like Nelly (pictured front, center, with some of the young adults she mentors) whose love and leadership create lasting change in their families and communities!