REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA

Project: The Kurdish Bridge Project

Reaching Families Through the Next Generation

✓ Safe spaces for Kurdish children to learn, grow, and hear the Gospel

✓ Mentorship that integrates education, meals, and faith

✓ A bridge from summer camp to year-round discipleship and family trust

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THE NEED

Cultural Hesitancy and Barriers to Faith

Kurds are a displaced people spread across the Middle East and beyond, with a unique community residing in Georgia. Kurdish families come from varied religious backgrounds, and for many, stepping directly into a church can be difficult. Without trusted relationships, children lack safe environments to overcome educational barriers, while their families miss opportunities to experience the Gospel through friendship and service.

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THE APPROACH

The Kurdish Bridge: Creating a Relational Pathway

While Kurdish parents avoid church services, they will send their children to summer camp. The Kurdish Bridge Project keeps it open by giving relationships a place to grow throughout the school year. Up to 10 children meet at the Kurdish Center three afternoons a week (3 hours each day). Through local Christian leaders, the program provides:

  • Transportation: Safe travel to and from the center

  • Meals & Snacks: Consistent nutritional support

  • Homework Help & Games: Academic guidance and structured play

  • Bible Lessons & Prayer: Age-appropriate spiritual growth

  • Family Engagement: Building trust with parents at home

THE PATHWAY

How the bridge works:

  • Summer Camp: First contact and initial connection.

  • Kurdish Bridge: Year-round support 3 days a week with food, tutoring, and mentorship.

  • Visible Transformation: Parents notice positive, lasting changes in their children's lives.

  • Gospel Conversations: Seeing the difference, parents listen as our partner Rezo explains how the kids accepted Jesus.

  • Transformed Families: Household trust expands, opening doors for entire families to come to Christ.

THE DIFFERENCE

From Guarded Distance to Family Transformation

The Kurdish Bridge turns a brief week of camp into lasting impact. As children thrive academically and spiritually, initial parent hesitancy melts away. This visible transformation gives our local partner Rezo a natural opportunity to share the Gospel, paving a path for entire Kurdish households to experience faith in Jesus.

THE BUDGET

Annual Need: $15,360

To fully operate the center and fund one year of the Kurdish Bridge Project, support is allocated across these key areas:

  • Team Support: $7,200

  • Food & Snacks: $5,040

  • Transportation: $1,680

  • Center Utilities: $960

  • School Supplies: $480

THE INVITATION

Help Build the Bridge

Your support turns a single week at summer camp into a full year of mentorship, hot meals, and discipleship for Kurdish youth. As parents see their children transformed, hearts open to the Gospel. A gift of $15,360 fully funds the center for an entire year—providing everything needed to reach these children and their families. Help us keep the door open today.