CONGO
In 2007, a team from Constance went on a vision trip with ReachGlobal to explore joining the ministry relationship that has existed between the EFCA and CECU (Congo Evangelical Free Church). Through this exposure to the needs of our brothers and sisters in Christ, God burdened Constance's leadership to join a consortium of Free Churches ministering in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Since then, Constance continues to support the following ministries either financially or with support from short-term teams.
· Elikya Centers (Widow and orphan ministry)
· Tandala Hospital
· Global Fingerprint Sites (Child sponsorship)
· Promise Home (Disability ministry)
· Tabitha and Follow Me Centers (Women’s/Men’s spiritual mentoring and job training)
Upcoming Mission Trips
Promise Home
Jul 8–20, 2026
Promise Home
As an expression of God’s kingdom, Promise Home works with the Congolese Free Church (CECU) as well as its churches and partners to deliver personalized, professional services to young people with disabilities and their families.
Promise Home began by serving 12 children through residential care in 2018. The program now serves 90 children, 50 of whom are in residential care. As participants in the ministry, these young people receive an education, independent living skills, vocational training, community and an understanding of what it means to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Promise Home is successfully helping young people with disabilities participate in family, church and community life. Some children have been reintegrated with their families and a few graduates are pursuing college education—one studying accounting and one in seminary to become a pastor.
Promise Home is deepening and extending its impact by pursuing a new family engagement model and training child case workers as disability community care workers. By shifting the ministry focus toward households and local churches, families and entire communities will be equipped to provide care for these children, extending the impact of Promise Home beyond its residential capacity and deepening the ministry of the Congolese church.
Constance has partnered with Promise Home through Reach Global to send teams there to serve, and supports its Director, Grace Hill, as one of our full-time missionaries.
In 2022, the Free Church of Congo, known as CECU (Evangelical Community of Christ in the Ubangi) celebrated 100 years of ministry. Constance has been privileged to be a part of that ministry since 2007, when our church sent a team on a vision trip to support EFCA’s ReachGlobal ministries there, like Tandala Hospital and a new ministry called GlobalFingerprints (the EFCA child sponsorship program). For nearly two decades, we've been blessed to walk alongside them and see those ministries thrive.
Elikya Center
The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country filled with beautiful people who have suffered greatly. The ravages of AIDS and Malaria, coupled with the effects of a long civil war and other conflicts, have resulted in an unfathomable number of orphans, widows, and people with disabilities carrying great and urgent needs. These needs include the lack of food, shelter, medical care, and a way to provide for themselves. Women of the CECU had a vision of practically addressing these needs while also sharing the deep love and hope of Christ. This vision led to the beginning of The Elikya Training Center for older orphans and widows in 2007. Constance was honored to be a part of measuring the land for the Elikya on that first vision trip in 2007.
Participants at Elikya are sponsored through GlobalFingerprints and spend anywhere from ten months to two years receiving vocational training in sewing, masonry, agriculture, carpentry, haircare, and soap making. They also participate in Biblical studies and literacy training. Students live in housing provided at the Center, where they experience the love and grace of Christ lived out in the lives of their teachers and fellow students.
With your generosity to Constance over the years, we have been able to help the Elikya Center expand. Projects have been funded for new fishponds, banana fields, sweet potato gardens, cocoa fields, a sewing room, and some bikes for the students to travel distances in the rural landscape. These will not only help in feeding the students as they learn agriculture, but will bring in self-sustaining income to the Center. Goat & chicken enclosures have been constructed and are being utilized. And Constance has regularly provided equipment and tools each year for the graduates of the program.
Well Drilling
Inaccessibility to clean water is a major issue in underdeveloped areas, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is no exception. In 2009, Constance funded the purchase of a well-drilling rig, and since then, over 80 wells have been installed throughout the Ubangi region. This represents enough potable water to service over 48,000 families! But this drill became less effective with age and maintenance. In 2022, your generosity to Constance provided for a new drill, which will provide more than a decade of service and countless more wells throughout Ubangi at churches, health centers, and schools to eliminate the single greatest cause of death for children under 5: unclean water.
Tabitha Center & FollowMe
The Tabitha Center traces back to Claudine Selenga, a woman who saw the cycle of poverty and unemployment in Kinshasa pushing parents toward abortion and infanticide, while also forcing many young women into prostitution. At first, Claudine started Bible studies in her home which grew into teaching many women useful skills, like sewing, cosmetology, and cooking. In 2013, the ministry officially became the Tabitha Center with Claudine as Director and her husband, Pastor Selenga as Advisor. What started with 12 girls has since multiplied into many centers that equip thousands, providing both skills and jobs to lift women out of poverty. Watch this video to learn more about how EFCA's Globalfingerprints ministry got involved to help support the Tabitha Centers and how sponsorship makes a difference in these women's lives. For a decade, Constance has helped support the Tabitha Centers.
With the success of Tabitha Centers, Claudine's husband, Pastor Selenga, started an option for teen boys called FollowMe which has now become a thriving ministry of its own with over 30 centers.
Constance has partnered