| S.H.I.P. is being led by the founding director Kirk Schauer. He has been Associate Pastor of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship Santa Maria for the past 6 years. He and his wife have extensive overseas experience - living in Hong Kong working to rehabilitate heroin addicts both spiritually and physically. They facilitated job skills trainings and church planting. They also lived in Cambodia where they helped to establish initial structures for Community Development along with church planting. Kirk is involved in training and mentoring others in these areas specifically team building, cross cultural ministry, being naturally supernatural by using spiritual gifts, and various community development trainings. Many others have joined the team and the strength of what we are doing is based on their talents and God’s blessings. |  |
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In Zambia, our Seeds of Hope team is being led by Pastor Francis Feruka. Francis has been the pastor of the Mapalo Vineyard Christian Fellowship since the church was planted in 2003. Before that Francis worked as an accountant for the hospital in Ndola and also for the mining industry. Francis’ wife, Flavia, is a nurse working with HIV patients in home health care. Francis and Flavia have been an incredible blessing in leading the team in Zambia. They truly have a father’s heart for the people. Seeds of Hope would not be where we are without their integrity and hard work,. The Seeds of Hope team in Zambia is pioneering different areas. We have a full-time water development staff working in drilling water wells, building and distributing sand filters, pump repair, water testing, and hygiene and sanitation education. |
