New Hope Ministries

“New Hope Ministries exists to impact the Dayak people group in West- Kalimantan with the gospel of Jesus Christ”

The New Hope Ministries goals are:

• Support local pastors / churches
• Taking care of children in the children’s home “Wisma Damai Sejahtera” (Eternal Peace Centre)

Especially this second goal is the main focus of this ministry. Children are the adults of the future. Children are future leaders! Because of that it is so important to give them a good place to grow up in.

Therefore the vision of the children’s home “Wisma Damai Sejahtera” is:

“Wisma damai Sejahtera provides children with a safe and healthy environment to grow in their love for God and reach their full potential

At this moment “Wisma Damai Sejahtera” exists of two buildings with sleeping places, a building for the youngets children, a house with an office and several classrooms, a leaders house, a building for visitors/ helpers, a canteen and a big aula.

About 120 children live in the childrens home. Some of the children have only one parent, and about ten percent are total orphans. We have children from the age of five up to above twenty years of age. The youngest ones already start with primary school here in Sanggau, many oft he older children come for their Lower and Higher Secondary School education.
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A day from the life of Leo, a nine years old boy who lives in the New Hope Ministries:

Every day I get up between 4.30 and 5.00 am and start the day with washing myself in a big ‘pond’. It is still a bit dark. We pray together for a new day. After that I have breakfast with my friends. Breakfast is rice and vegetables. We eat rice three times day, like all other Indonesians.

At six o’clock am I walk to school because it starts early – 7 o’clock. At school I have classes like mathematics, Indnonesian language and all other subjects. We also exercise at school. At the end of the morning school is finished and we walk home together.
After lunch we take a rest. It is always very hot here so we always take a nap after lunch. After our nap I do my homework and after that I help with chores around the house, like sweeping floors and helping with the laundry.

Twice a week I have extra classes in the ministry, English and arts. I like that a lot because I learn many new things. After that we are free to play. I like football but most of all I like climbing trees with my friends. We have a house tree and I often play there.
At six o’clock pm we have dinner and it gets dark right away. We sing and pray together and listen to a story from the bible which I love! Then we go to bed. Sometimes when there is no electricity we need to find our bed in the dark but luckily the sun raises always the next morning!

Most people in Indonesia cannot continue studying after secondary school. Universities are far away and very expensive. That is why NHM wants to help young people continue to study after secondary school.

Some of our young people have already studied; English, Mathematics and other things. Some are teachers now and other help in the ministry.

Going to university is expensive. The students also have to go to other, bigger cities where they have universities, like Pontianak, the capital of Kalimantan. Because of this there are also costs for living and renting a room that need to be paid. In total one year at university per student costs about 2000 dollar.

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New Hope Ministries was started with a focus on planting churches in remote villages and equipping local pastors to lead them. Often, these were laymen with a heart to serve God and their congregations and were trained „on the job“, leading their churches for years while still working as farmers.

Some of them have joined a regional network of local pastors that has developed over the years. Here they can share their experiences, get mutual advice and also further training. NHM continues to support them with the aim of helping them to become self sufficient.