This year our Advent Conspiracy partner is Living Hope Ministries in Cape Town, South Africa. We encourage you to buy fewer gifts this Christmas and give away what you would have spent for the sake of the Gospel. This is the Advent Conspiracy. 100% of what we raise together will be given away to support this project.

• Living Hope’s Agricultural Program, the Harvest Training Initiative, helps young adults earn their way out of poverty through a four-phase, practical Agricultural and Business Training based on Biblical principles.
• This program lasts 18 months in which students are empowered with the skills and confidence to run a successful farming business. There is room for up to 30 students in a class, and a new program starts every six months.
• Students attend daily classroom lectures and engage in practical, hands-on experience on Living Hope’s farm. By participating in every step of the process from the planting of seeds to the sale of the produce, students gain valuable agricultural and business experience. Living Hope uses five streams of training to holistically raise entrepreneurs: agriculture, business, community development, life skills, and Christian discipleship.
• The current housing for the students of the Agricultural Program is critically insufficient. Their accommodations are very basic structures (renovated garden sheds) that are aging and nearing the end of their usable life.
• Without sufficient housing, it limits Living Hope’s capacity to host the full number of students and compromises their learning environment.
• The plan is to build new, safe, and dignified living spaces for their current and future agriculture students.
• In addition to student living space, they hope to build accommodations for visiting mission trip teams, and also have a space for conferences and expanded Living Hope administrative functions.
• This project is far more than just “building rooms.” It is making a direct investment in the Kingdom of God by providing the foundation – a literal roof over their heads – to allow promising students to focus fully on gaining the skills needed to become self-sufficient agricultural entrepreneurs in Africa. And, at the same time this will provide the infrastructure for Living Hope to host essential mission teams and conferences significantly multiplying their ministry impact.
• Living Hope anticipates the overall budget for this project to be approximately $1.7 million. Phase 1 will consist of building new housing for the students while Phase 2 will be the new spaces for visiting mission teams and conference and administrative space.