Mission Statement

Ikaze Ministry welcomes East African refugee families in Greensboro by providing lovingly grown food and homemade meals, inviting them into community, and introducing them to the Lord who provides it all.

Ikaze Ministry has lots of potential to be able to grow, but we are beginning with monthly prep days where we will come together as a community to make meals with our farm produce and build welcome kits with these meals, cards, and other handcrafted goods and necessary household items.

“The How”

We’ll then send out our welcome and delivery team to bring these kits to newly arrived East African refugees in our city—to welcome them, pray with them, hear their stories, and invite them into our community here at our farm and ultimately the church. Many of these refugees arrive after having been displaced for years and knowing no one in the city—we want to welcome them to our East African service where they can begin to connect and feel at home and into our wider church community where we can all be the family of God together. Our farm is also growing extra shares of food to be able to continue to supply these refugees with fresh produce for several weeks as they begin settling in.

As this ministry grows, we hope to be able to offer different classes through volunteers and our Abbey ministries on how to grow food, driving lessons, citizenship classes, and more.