Next Up: The Widows’ Team Trip
In October there will be a group of widows heading to Kenya to spend two weeks walking alongside other widows. We will be sharing stories, building homes, and hosting a leadership retreat where we will dig into what God has to say about widows, and what He shows us about His heart of love and care for them. This is a beautiful opportunity for widows around the globe to come together, to sit with, to listen, to learn and to love well.
And we have opportunities for you to join us along the way. Check out the initiatives listed below that our team members are championing.
Join a Team Initiative
Our Team Initiatives highlight projects that individual team members have chosen to champion as they prepare for the October journey. Working alongside our local leaders, these initiatives provide an opportunity for others to participate in tangible acts of hope. This season, two team members are each fundraising to build a widow's home, complete with a concrete floor and basic furnishings, helping create a place of safety, dignity, and a fresh beginning for two widows and their families.
Deni's Widow's Home + Furnishings
Deni has chosen to champion the construction of a safe, lasting home for a widow and her family. This project will provide a newly built home complete with a concrete floor, essential furnishings, and the simple necessities that turn a structure into a place of comfort and belonging. A secure home offers protection from the elements, improved health, and the stability needed to begin rebuilding life after loss. Through this initiative, Deni is inviting others to help provide not just a house, but a place where hope can take root.
Goal: $1,700
Sharon's Home of Hope
Sharon has chosen to champion the construction of a new home for a widow and her family, creating a place of safety, stability, and hope. This project will provide a newly built home with a concrete floor, essential furnishings, and the everyday necessities that help transform a house into a home. For a widow who has lost so much, a secure place to live can bring renewed peace, improved health, and the opportunity to move forward with confidence. By supporting Sharon's Home of Hope, you are helping provide a lasting foundation for a family's future.
Goal: $1,700
Jigger Clinic + Shoes
This initiative will help provide a community jigger clinic where children and adults receive treatment for painful jigger infestations, along with a new pair of shoes to help protect their feet from future infection. For many families, something as simple as proper footwear can make a lasting difference in their health, mobility, and ability to attend school or work. By supporting this project, you are helping restore comfort, dignity, and hope while providing practical care that has an immediate and lasting impact.
Goal: $500
Across Kenya and Tanzania, there are women still holding up what their husbands once led with them - churches, ministries, communities. But widowhood has changed how they’re seen. The responsibility remains, but the support is gone, and in many ways, so is the dignity they once had.
Many of these women face new challenges within their culture - stigmas that minimize their voice, grief that goes unnamed, and nowhere truly safe to talk about it.
What This Is = Rooted and Rising is a three-day retreat in Western Kenya - a pause for widowed leaders who’ve been holding everything together with no space to fall apart. They’ve kept going, carrying what they once led alongside their husbands. The burden to show up is still on them - but their rights and voices have been minimized.
This retreat offers room to breathe, grieve, share, pray, learn, and be reminded: God has not forgotten them. He’s still moving. These women are not done. They are women of value, leaders - rooted in truth, rising in strength, and carrying others with them.
Be Part of the Story - The cost to hold this retreat is $5,500. If you want to help make this happen, you can click the button below.
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