Current Priorities

Working out of small centres in an IDP camps, Matt and Amelie are focussing on basic health and fitness education as a means to improve life, reduce the need for expensive medical care, and demonstrate the love, compassionate, and hope of Christ to people who have no context for it.

Vision

To be obedient to the direction of Christ, making disciples through shared community regardless of circumstance or location.

Bio

Amelie grew up knowing of God, but didn’t develop a personal, saving, relationship with Him until early adulthood. She has lived the “before” and is now living in the “after” of a transformed life offered through Jesus, and being adopted into God’s family. Amelie has worked as a physiotherapist for over a decade and has come to appreciate the interconnectedness of our parts to the whole, and how a heart’s longing to be seen, heard, and loved can only be satisfied through Jesus. Out of that overflow and holistic perspective, Amelie felt God leading her family to serve in an area of the world that has need, both practical/physical and emotional/spiritual.

Matt grew up in a Christian home and eventually joined the military because, by his understanding, those in the most need were those who couldn’t receive it due to security reasons. Matt wanted to provide that security. While conducting that work in different countries, it became clear that it was all a ‘band-aid’ solution, and that only a changed heart would result in long-term healing. The only way to fully change a heart is through God’s irrepressible love through Christ. So now Matt and the family live with people who haven’t heard of Christ and watches for the Spirit to give them opportunities to help change hearts.