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Maicao, Colombia. Is a small commercial city in Colombia, just 8 miles from the border with Venezuela. 7 miles outside this city, in the landfill, God led us to a small community formed by over 60 Wayuu families who are refugees fleeing the hardships of Venezuela. The main source of income for these families comes… Continue reading

Short-term Mission Trip During the month of September a team of 7 from New Mercy Community Church from Hackensack, New Jersey joined us in La Guajira Colombia for a ten dayshort-term mission trip.  We served 7 local churches in La Guajira through eye clinics, installing water filtration systems, children’s bible school, and construction.  The New Mercy team… Continue reading

Amira Gonzalez is a volunteer teacher at one of our literacy groups in Maracaibo, Venezuela.  She is in charge of teaching and preparing meals for the literacy group that meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.  Her class has 12 students ranging from 13 to 15 years old.  Amira says that her goal is to instruct her students to not… Continue reading

(Stories from the Field: Maracaibo, Venezuela) In spite of the hardships and challenges that Venezuela is currently going through, God is still moving and God is still faithful.  The world around us may be dying, but HE NEVER CHANGES!  This month we wanted to share with you a story about how one person’s faithfulness can… Continue reading

From December 18th – 22nd, Bread of Hope hosted a church planters’ training for 9 Wayuu leaders.  This training was the just the beginning of a year-long program with these Wayuu church planters. Our first training session centered around God’s Word.  The church planters’ intensively learned how each story in the Bible (beginning in Genesis)… Continue reading

This Christmas Eve, Bread of Hope brought the love, joy, and hope of Christ’s birth to Wayuu families living and working in the landfill of Maicao, Colombia.  This small community of Wayuu families is unique in Colombia.  Usually, Wayuu families in Colombia live in rancherias with their family on land that has been owned for generations.… Continue reading

City Dumps – its where everything that is worthless, dirty, empty, and useless goes.   You usually think of trash trucks and piles of garbage.  But in Latin America, as well as many other countries you’ll see people who make their living going through what’s been thrown out and left behind.  People of all ages, including… Continue reading

Training pastors and christian leaders is part of obeying the Great Commission. As part of the supreme mandate to “make disciples” Jesus commands us to “teach them to observe all that I commanded you.” As we train Wayuu pastors and church leaders, they will be better equipped to make more disciples, teaching them what Christ has commanded.… Continue reading

Do you shop on Amazon? Now you can support Bread of Hope every time you shop at Amazon.com. Simply start your shopping experience at: smile.amazon.com and select “Bread of Hope” as your preferred charity, and we will receive 0.5% of every purchase. What is AmazonSmile and how does it work? AmazonSmile is a new charitable… Continue reading

Our ministry among the Wayuu people is rapidly expanding.  New communities are being reached in remote areas.  Over twenty new communities have been reached this year We need to travel to these communities to assess their needs and provide tools and training so more people can be reached. REDESKA, an association of Wayuu Baptist churches… Continue reading