Our Ministry
We meet people where hardship is greatest, build relationships, and connect the support that helps them move toward restoration.
Frontline Restoration Ministry
Our frontline is wherever people are facing poverty, illness, homelessness, displacement, or broken relationships. We begin by being present, listening, and recognising each person's God-given dignity. HEMEFund brings people and organisations together so practical care can grow into lasting support.
Relationship
Restoration begins with relationship
Food, medical care, and opportunities to learn and work matter. They take root in relationships marked by attention, love, and trust. In our street outreach, a hand held a little longer can remind us how deeply people long for family, friendship, and a place to belong. We make time to listen, share a meal, learn a person's story, and return.
We invite our community to see a neighbour in each person: someone with a story, gifts, relationships, and hopes. Learning to see one another this way is part of restoration.
What we do today
Current ministries
Current relational outreach
Project Nshima
Shared meals, conversation, worship and prayer, and consistent presence with street-connected people. We build relationships over time and help explore appropriate next steps.
Children and adults need different kinds of support. For children, next steps must follow appropriate child-protection and care pathways.
Learn moreCurrent medical ministry
Project Rapha
Medical outreach bringing local health professionals and volunteers together to offer compassionate care and support appropriate follow-up and referral.
Learn moreProject Rapha prepares two concentrated medical outreaches a year, and between them medical care continues through the weekly encounters of Project Nshima. See how field treatment and hospital connections carry through the year.
Read more about year-round medical careOur approach
How we walk together
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Meet
We spend time with people where they live their everyday lives. Getting to know someone and treating them with respect is where trust begins.
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Listen
We listen carefully to each person's difficulties and hopes. Their voice helps shape the next step we consider together.
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Care
We respond to immediate needs for food, practical support, and healthcare within our capacity. Medical decisions and treatment remain the responsibility of qualified professionals.
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Connect
When someone needs more specialised help, we look for appropriate local organisations and partners. Children's safety and responsible care arrangements come first.
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Keep walking
Restoration takes time. We seek to remain in relationship, review changing needs, and consider the next step together within our capacity.
Each person's needs, choices, and pace guide the next step. Restoration takes time.
The collaboration we are building
A community of care around each person
We invite these parts of our community to work together.
The person and their community
Dignity · Voice · Belonging
Government & social services
Hospitals & health professionals
Children's care organisations
Schools & skills training
Churches & nonprofit organisations
Businesses & individuals
The person and their community
Dignity · Voice · Belonging
Government & social services
Hospitals & health professionals
Children's care organisations
Schools & skills training
Churches & nonprofit organisations
Businesses & individuals
HEMEFund meets, listens, connects, and follows up. Each partner brings its own skills, responsibilities, and relationships.
Connections are shaped around the person, with appropriate professional and safeguarding responsibilities.
Good partnerships connect people with different skills and responsibilities. Drawing on what we hear in the community, we talk with local churches, professionals, and organisations about how we can serve together. We clarify roles and capacity as we prepare each new collaboration.
Bring what you can. Walk with us.
Churches, institutions, businesses, and individuals each have something to offer: professional skills, training opportunities, practical resources, prayer, time, and sustained friendship.