The 2023 HopeCo Vision Trip team with HopeCo staff at the City of Hope, Tanzania.

HopeCo Trip 2025

July 14–28, 2025

Location: City of Hope, Ntgacha, Tanzania

Team Leaders: Amber Carter & Valerie McGoldrick

Team size: 12 people

Cost: $4,150/person

Applications are due August 12, 2024
Please note that youth applicants will have a personal interview as part of the application process.

 

Qualifications

  • 16+ or older at the time of the trip. (Limited spots will be made available to youth participants.) 

  • Strong personal walk with Jesus Christ.

  • Demonstrated maturity, teachability and heart for service. 

  • Willing and able to undertake an international trip that includes ~24 hour travel with a different standard of living during the stay. 

  • Willing and able to commit to the following:

Commitment

  • Recruit a 6 person prayer team to support you before, during and after the trip. 

  • Actively participate in personal support raising and team fundraisers in accordance with team fundraising goals. 

  • Complete all training, forms and background check required by HopeCo. 

  • Attend 9 monthly preparation meetings.

  • Attend 1-2 post-trip debrief meetings. 

  • Participate in the team’s post-trip reporting to the church.

Sending Opportunities

Not able to join the trip this year? We need both Goers and Senders! You can still be a strong contributor to this partnership and the outgoing team. Check out these opportunities: 

  • Volunteer at the HopeCo Coffee Shop. Contact Kelly Yodis. 

  • Host or co-host monthly team meetings. Provide a home, meal or refreshments. Contact Amber or Valerie. 

  • Join the planning team for the HopeCo staff visit (Sept 24, 2024). Contact Kristy Goli. 

  • Join the planning team for the annual HopeCo Gala (date tbc, likely Feb 2025). Contact David Frey or Stefany Gess. 

About HopeCo

HopeCo’s vision is to see transformed lives and flourishing communities in Tanzania, Kenya, and across East Africa. Driven by their faith in Jesus, they provide quality holistic care that creates lasting transformation, enabling children, their families, and communities to flourish. HopeCo oversees multiple small sites in East Africa. Their flagship campus, City of Hope, is located in Ntgacha, Tanzania and is where our 2025 team will primarily stay and serve. 

IWC Missions Philosophy

  • We aim to worship. Our vision for missions at Iron Works is that we would worship God more deeply as a result of understanding His love and plan for the nations. 

  • We aim to be goers and senders. A healthy church will engage with the Great Commission in daily life at home, but also at the global level via going and sending. Those who go should never feel that they are alone in raising support and understanding. Those who stay should understand the importance of their role and share in the joys of a fruitful trip. 

  • We aim to foster healthy, long-term partnerships. Iron Works continues to invest in building a relational, mutually beneficial partnership with HopeCo. 

  • We aim to pursue excellence as defined by Mission Excellence’s 7 Standard’s of Excellence. HopeCo was accredited in these standards in early 2024. We utilize a variety of preparatory materials and methods to achieve this goal. 

For more information, please write missions@ironworkschurch.org.