Engage Hope Ministries

Engage Hope organizes 7-10 short-term mission trips each year to Uganda and Mexico to provide on-site support to our Ministry Partners. The mission teams serve our Ministry Partners through evangelism, discipleship training, new church construction projects, malnutrition outreaches, mobile medical, dental and vision clinics, community service projects, women and children’s ministries, and pastor training. Each trip has a unique purpose and goal to share the gospel while serving others.

Providing a Christian education is a major focus for Engage Hope and our Ministry Partners. We work with eight schools in Uganda and one orphanage in Mexico to provide a biblically-based education to over 3,000 children.
• We provide ongoing support for these schools through our Sponsor-a-Child Program and financial assistance as needed for new school construction, school improvements, books, equipment, and teacher salary support.
• The Valasek Christian Leadership Award was started in 2018 to recognize and reward the top graduates in each primary 7 class and to provide a scholarship for their next year at secondary school. To be eligible for the award, students are required to be in the top 10% of their class, an Engage Hope sponsored child, and a spiritual leader with a track record of serving others and sharing their faith.
• In 2019, Engage Hope paid for our partner schools in Uganda to be affiliated with the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI). ACSI is an international accreditation organization that provides quality training and support for teachers in academics and biblical integration. We believe that Kingdom education and biblical integration are essential to the spiritual development of the children we serve.
• The Stacy Nabasny Education Endowment was established in 2019 to provide scholarships for Engage Hope sponsored students to continue their education in university or vocational school.

We work with three Ministry Partners who do extensive work meeting the physical and spiritual needs of children and families trapped in the slums of Uganda. The slum ministries we support provide thousands of free meals each year, life-skills training, education, vocational training, pro-life counseling, and transitional housing for young boys, girls, and single mothers and their babies rescued from the slums.

We support Passion Christian Ministries in Kampala, Uganda, which operates the Healing Hope Malnutrition Clinic. Teams are sent weekly to remote villages to assess children for malnutrition. The children that are dangerously malnourished are transported back to the clinic in Kampala, along with their mothers, to be nursed back to health and then returned to their villages. During these outreaches, the gospel is always presented, along with food, treatment, and training in proper nutrition.

Engage Hope is called to share the gospel and develop disciples of Jesus Christ. The problem in Uganda and Mexico, as in most undeveloped countries, is the lack of resources. Many people do not have Bibles, let alone access to strong biblical teaching. We are dedicated to making sure that all of our Ministry Partners are equipped with the materials and training to present the Truth. We work with churches in Uganda and Mexico to help build new churches, plant house churches, distribute Bibles and discipleship materials and provide leadership training for pastors. One of our primary focus areas in Mexico has been building new churches in remote areas. Since 2013, Engage Hope has partnered with Pogue Family Missions and Prestonwood Baptist Church to build three new churches each year in unreached regions of Chiapas, Mexico.

Engage Hope provides financial support to our Ministry Partners for urgent needs in times of unexpected crises: e.g., COVID-19 food relief, medical supplies for malaria outbreaks, relocating families due to severe flooding, Bible distribution to remote areas in need of the gospel, and more.