Ministry to Muslims for 120 years...

FOR OVER A CENTURY, CALL OF HOPE HAS BEEN MAKING THE GOSPEL ACCESSIBLE TO MUSLIMS THROUGH CREATIVE MEDIA, RELATIONAL EVANGELISM, DISCIPLESHIP, HUMANITARIAN AID AND CHURCH PLANTING INITIATIVES. MORE THAN 200 INDIGENOUS MUSLIM BACKGROUND BELIEVERS, ALL THEOLOGICALLY TRAINED, AND ALL LEADERS IN THEIR MINISTRIES AND COMMUNITIES, CARRY OUT THE WORK OF CALL OF HOPE IN 27 MUSLIM COUNTRIES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO AFRICA TO SOUTHEAST ASIA.

Where we work

AFRICA

ASIA

What We Do

  • Broadcast Biblically-based radio programs to over 200 million people.

  • Provide food, medicine, Bible-based literature to those in need.

  • Minister to the physical and spiritual needs of refugees.

  • Operate medical, vocational training, and spiritual mentorship programs for the disabled.

  • Produce and distribute literature, follow-up to answer questions and invite to Bible study groups.

  • Produce and distribute Scripture and Biblically-based literature in local languages.

  • Collaborate with local churches for training seminars.

  • Provide safe houses for persecuted Christians.

  • Respond to natural disasters with emergency supplies, food, and shelter.

  • Offer vocational training to help lift families out of poverty.

  • Conduct outreach ministries including youth sports, food distribution, and ministry to women and children.

  • Provide agricultural supplies and training, and micro-grants for small businesses.

Our History

1887
German settlers Fritz Keller (German Vice Consul, Haifa), and Minister Johannes Seitz constructed an outreach ministry facility on Mount Karmel in Israel/Palestine. Facility construction was made possible by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire AbdulHamid Khan II and Pope Leo the 13th.

1904
Martin Schneider assumes leadership, expanding ministry focus beyond the German settlers in the Holy Land to include Jews and Muslims.

1923
Mission support headquarters established in Germany.

1948
The State of Israel is founded. The Israeli government seizes the Mount Karmel property on the grounds that it was German. Call of Hope workers flee to Lebanon.

1951 – the 1970s
COH ministry continues in Lebanon through humanitarian help for Bedouins and refugees, radio programs, literature publication, distribution, discipleship, and correspondence. COH work begins in Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, and Jordan.

1974
COH opens an English literature department.

1979
COH literature and discipleship work begins in southern India, Bangladesh, and other Asian countries.

1980s
The work expands in Asia. In Indonesia a vast Radio work starts.

1987
Literature work and agricultural evangelism efforts began in Nigeria and Ghana.

1990s
Literature and outreach work begins in other African countries like Kenya and Tanzania. Call of Hope begins its international Internet work in many different languages.

2003
Radio work begins in Northern Nigeria as well as  in Ghana and Kenya.

2008
COH-USA is founded

2013
COH begins working among refugees fleeing ISIS, providing humanitarian aid and the hope of the Gospel.

2014
COH starts working in Bulgaria and Azerbaijan among Muslim gypsy communitities.

2015
COH responds to the massive earthquake in Nepal, providing aid and shelter to survivors.

From its beginnings in the Holy Land and Lebanon, the work of Call of Hope spread to 27 Islamic countries spanning the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Though millions have been reached, much remains to be done. There are currently an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims who do not yet know God’s love.