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Hope for the Fields
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Hope for the Fields is three Americans from Spartanburg, South Carolina, who moved to Tanzania in 2023 to live out the book of Acts: preaching Jesus on the streets, building and running a church with a Tanzanian pastor, training disciples, and putting Bibles and food into people's hands in Dar es Salaam, Kigoma and Arusha. No church or organization funds us. Friends and family do. Your gift is how the work gets done.

Become a Field Partner Where your gift goes
Street outreachThe heart of everything we do
Kagongo Church80 adults, 120 children, Kigoma
Bibles to the Maasai250+ Bibles given so far
Food & the gospelDistributions in Dar es Salaam
A US 501(c)(3), registered in Tanzania.Hope for the Fields, Inc. (EIN 92-3765135) is incorporated in South Carolina and registered in Tanzania as international NGO No. I-NGO/R/9747. Gifts are tax-deductible in the US.
We live there.Vlad and Vica in Dar es Salaam, Crestina in Kigoma, full time since 2023. Your gift is spent by the same people who thank you for it.
Funded by friends and family. All of it.No church or organization backs us yet. Every project and event runs on the monthly gifts of people who know us, and we call or text each of them every month.
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Choose what your gift does

Secure · tax-deductible in the US

Card gifts are completed on Donorbox, our secure checkout powered by Stripe. Zelle, Cash App and Venmo work too.

Field Partners · monthly giving

Steady gifts are what we build on.

We have no church or organizational backers, so every project and event runs on the monthly commitments of friends and family. We ask each Field Partner to consider $100 a month. Once a month, Vlad or Vica will call or text you personally with what your gift is doing.

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“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”Matthew 28:19-20, NIV

What your gifts have done

Our own count since our first trip in 2016. We have not tracked everything, and we would rather show you the numbers we can stand behind than round them up.

Accountability page
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Church built

1

Kagongo Church, Kigoma, with Pastor Charles Kazubura. Plus one church restored.

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People at Kagongo

200

80 adults and 120 children, every week

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Bibles given

250+

Swahili Bibles, many to Maasai believers around Arusha

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Community projects

10

roofs, bathrooms, houses, a pastor's office, small businesses funded

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Children's homes

2

one supported in Kigoma, one under construction

Now through April 2027

Phase 1: land, a wall and a well.

The most important thing we will do in the next seven months is finish Phase 1 of our mission base and discipleship training compound in Kigoma: buy the land, build the perimeter wall and drill the well. Most other events are paused so every dollar can go there first. When it stands, local students will train there and mission teams will live there.

  1. Obtain the land. The compound site, purchased outright.
  2. Build the perimeter. The wall that secures the site before anything else is built.
  3. Drill the well. Water for the compound and the neighbors around it.
Give toward Phase 1 The three-year plan
Compound modelThe 3D model of the planned mission base and training school goes here once the file is supplied.
A woman in a blue kitenge dress smiles as she hands out supplies on a distribution day
Distribution day. Everyone shown gave verbal permission before this photo was published. Photo: Hope for the Fields.
Real photo · permission given

Food in one hand, the gospel in the other.

On a distribution day the supplies and the message go out together. We hand out food, we pray with people, we tell them about Jesus, and we come back. That is what your gift buys: not a program, but a presence.

This is what we can give you that a large charity cannot: the real story of where your hard-earned money went. A family. A church. A life in actual need.

Read our stories How we tell stories

Where we work

One country, three places. Our team lives in Dar es Salaam and Kigoma and travels to Arusha. Tanzania is home to about 67 million people, two-thirds of them under 25.

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Place photoThe city, the street where we hold outreach
Home base

Dar es Salaam

Home for Vlad and Vica. Street evangelism and food distribution in a city of more than five million.
Place photoKagongo Church, Lake Tanganyika behind the town
Kagongo

Kigoma

Kagongo Church, the children's ministry and a children's home, with Pastor Charles Kazubura. Crestina lives here and oversees the work.
Place photoMaasai land outside Arusha, the road in
Maasai outreach

Arusha

Bibles and the gospel for the Maasai. Trusted local leaders keep the curriculum and Bibles we leave behind.
Where your money goes

Small, direct, and easy to check.

Your gift is received by Hope for the Fields, Inc., a US 501(c)(3) (EIN 92-3765135). Card gifts run through Donorbox and Stripe; Zelle, Cash App and Venmo come straight to the ministry. Our CEO keeps the finances, our treasurer completes the accounting and taxes, and our Form 990 is filed every year and public. We do not have an outside audit yet, and we say so.

How your gift reaches TanzaniaPublic records
US 501(c)(3)92-3765135EIN · incorporated in South Carolina · IRS letter 23 April 2023
TanzaniaI-NGO/R/9747International NGO registration · issued 29 April 2026
Form 990Every yearPublic on the IRS site · no outside audit yet

The hard questions, answered straight

The things people ask us in living rooms every summer, answered the way we answer them there.

Why not serve locally?

We were called by God to serve in Tanzania full time, and we had willing and able hearts to leave the familiar for the unfamiliar. Many things had to be sacrificed to embark on a journey like this, but a life called to Christ is a life called to sacrifice. We believe that wherever God calls us is the best, most fruitful and safest place for us to be.

Where does your funding come from? How do you survive without a “real job”?

We live by faith and believe that what God called us to do, he will sustain and finish. He will not leave us stranded in the desert. We are not supported by any other organization or church; our funding comes 100% from friends and family. That is why we come to the States once a year for annual fundraising, so that, God willing, we can raise more. We do not yet receive enough to complete large projects like the compound, which is why Phase 1 is the focus this year.

Where does my money go right now?

Until April 2027 the first priority is Phase 1 of the mission base: the land, the perimeter wall and the well. Unless you direct your gift somewhere else, that is where it goes first. The running work continues alongside it: Kagongo Church and the children's ministry in Kigoma, Bibles to the Maasai around Arusha, and food distribution and street evangelism in Dar es Salaam.

Will I get a tax receipt?

Yes. Hope for the Fields, Inc. is a 501(c)(3), EIN 92-3765135. Card gifts through Donorbox get an automatic receipt by email. Zelle, Cash App and Venmo gifts get a receipt from our Executive Director at the end of the year, sent to the email you put in the payment note.

Four ways to walk with us

Giving is one of them. Prayer, coming to serve, and bringing your church are the others.

Pray

Six requests from the team this season, and a way to hear the next ones.

 Come serve

On your own or with a team. Join whatever is happening while you are here.

 Partner your church

Be our first partner church. A team you can call by first name, a work you can visit.

 Host us this summer

A living room and a dozen friends is enough. We come to the States every summer.
Follow the work

Updates come from the field, not a newsroom.

We post what is happening on Facebook and Instagram, and every donor hears from Vlad or Vica personally each month. For anything else, write to us.

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Our work · the book of Acts, lived out

Reach people where they are. Then make disciples.

Street outreach and evangelism is the heart of our ministry and the reason we live in Tanzania. Around it we run a church with a Tanzanian pastor, a children's ministry and discipleship classes, put Bibles and food into people's hands, and take on practical projects when the money is there. Every one of these is something your gift keeps going.

Running now

Kagongo Church and the children's ministry in Kigoma. Bibles and the gospel to the Maasai around Arusha. Food distribution and street evangelism in Dar es Salaam.

Planned

Two wells in Kigoma: one at Kagongo Church by the end of 2026, one at the mission compound. Phase 1 of the mission base, finished before April 2027.

Paused, on purpose

Larger events and new projects wait while we save for Phase 1. We would rather tell you that than pretend everything runs at once.

“All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. … And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”Acts 2:44-45, 47, NIV

Street outreach & evangelismEverywhere we go

Where the church began: on the street, in the open.

Why this is the heart

In 2020 we set out to live a life that looked like the book of Acts: healings, miracles, deliverance, baptism in the name of Jesus and, most of all, discipleship. Street outreach is where that begins. We go to people who have never heard, and we tell them about Jesus where they are.

What it looks like

Street events and projects, children's ministry, widows' ministry, Bible distribution, discipleship classes and training, and church planting where new believers need a home.

Whom we reach

Everyone who does not yet know Jesus as Lord and Savior, without sorting anyone by religion. In the region where we live, the people we meet who do not yet know Jesus are mostly Muslim. That brings real challenges, comments and concerns, and it does not change how God pursues people or how we share him.

“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”Mark 16:15, NIV

Fuel an outreach Come serve with us
Outreach photo · permission givenThe team praying with someone at a street event in Dar es Salaam. Adults named with their permission.

Where your gift goes

  • Bibles and outreach supplies
  • Transport to events, villages and follow-up visits
  • Food and care for the widows and children we serve at events
Church photo · permission givenPastor Charles Kazubura in front of Kagongo Church, named. The congregation on a Sunday.

Where your gift goes

  • Children's ministry supplies and teaching every week
  • The well on the church grounds, once the quote is in
  • Church running costs and practical projects in the community
Kagongo Church & children's ministry Kigoma

A church we built together, with 80 adults and 120 children in it.

The partnership

For three years we have worked with Pastor Charles Kazubura of CMF in Kigoma. Together we built Kagongo Church, organized outreach events and started a children's ministry. Pastor Charles leads the church. Crestina Guin, who lives in Kigoma, oversees our projects and events there.

What runs now

Sunday worship and a weekly children's ministry for about 80 adults and 120 children. A water well is planned on the church grounds by the end of 2026; we are getting the quote now.

What we have learned

One church built, one church restored, and ten practical projects in the community: roofs, bathrooms, houses, a pastor's office, seed money for small businesses. Practical help opens doors that preaching alone does not.

“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”John 8:31-32, NIV

Support Kagongo Kigoma on the map
Bibles to the Maasai Arusha

A Bible in the right hands outlasts any visit.

The work

Around Arusha we bring Swahili Bibles and the gospel to Maasai communities. We share Jesus, we teach, and we leave tools with trusted local leaders who can keep teaching: children's curriculum and Bibles for adults. Across all our work we have given more than 250 Bibles so far.

What stays behind

No one from our team lives in Arusha, so the Bibles and the curriculum stay with leaders the community already trusts. That is deliberate. A visit ends; a leader with a Bible keeps going.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”Romans 1:16, NIV

Send Bibles Arusha on the map
Maasai outreach photo · permission givenA leader receiving Bibles for his community, named with permission. Arusha region.

Where your gift goes

  • Swahili Bibles and children's curriculum
  • Travel to Maasai communities around Arusha
  • Follow-up visits and teaching for the leaders who hold the Bibles
A woman in a blue kitenge dress smiles as she hands out supplies on a distribution day
Distribution day. Everyone shown gave verbal permission before this photo was published. Photo: Hope for the Fields.
Food distribution & evangelism Dar es Salaam

Food in one hand, the gospel in the other.

Dar es Salaam is home for Vlad and Vica and the base for our street work. Food distributions and evangelism go out together: we feed people, we pray with them, we tell them about Jesus, and we go back. There is no local partner in Dar yet; our own team leads this work.

A distribution is the simplest thing your gift does, and one of the most direct. The food is bought here, carried by us, and handed over by us.

Fund a distribution Photos from Dar
Children's homes Kigoma

Two children's homes: one open, one being built.

We support one orphanage in Kigoma today. A second is in its first stages of construction and is set to open in about two years. We plan to be heavily involved there. Children are also the largest part of Kagongo Church, where 120 of them come every week.

Support the children
Community projects & wells

Ten practical projects, and two wells on the way.

Fixing houses, bathrooms and roofs, building a pastor's office, funding new business ideas: ten projects so far, each one a door into a family's life. Drilling wells is not our mission, but when the finances are there we pursue it. Two are planned: one at Kagongo Church by the end of 2026 and one at the mission compound.

Fund a project
Mission base & discipleship schoolPhase 1 · by April 2027

A place to train the workers Jesus told us to pray for.

Phase 1, the next seven months

Obtain the land in Kigoma. Build the perimeter wall. Drill the well. Most of our fundraising until April 2027 goes here, because nothing else can be built until this is done.

The three-year plan

Construct the mission base compound and the discipleship training school. Begin accepting local students into the discipleship program. Start a missionary team program, so people from the States who want to serve long term have a place to land. As the Lord leads, local believers and long-term Americans step into leadership.

“Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”Matthew 9:38, NIV

Give toward Phase 1 Where the money goes
Compound modelThe 3D model of the planned mission base and training school goes here once the file is supplied.

Phase 1 milestones

  1. Obtain the land. The compound site, purchased outright.
  2. Build the perimeter. The wall that secures the site before anything else is built.
  3. Drill the well. Water for the compound and the neighbors around it.

How we work, in three sentences

We live here.

Vlad and Vica in Dar es Salaam, Crestina in Kigoma, full time since 2023. We come to the States once a year, every summer, to raise support, and then we go back.

We find real need and build real relationships.

We can tell you the real story of where your hard-earned money went: a family, a church, a life in actual need. Small enough to know names. Close enough to go back.

Everyone we meet.

We do not sort people by religion. Everyone who does not yet know Jesus is someone we want to reach, and everyone in need is someone we want to help.

Where we work · Tanzania

One country, three places.

Our team lives in Dar es Salaam and Kigoma and travels to Arusha. Watch the globe settle on Tanzania, zoom in, and tap a pin to see the photos and video from that place.

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“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”Acts 1:8, NIV

For us, Tanzania is the ends of the earth in that verse: far from home, and exactly where Jesus sends witnesses. We moved here so that the people we meet would hear.

Our three places

Who is there, who we work with, and what is running.

Place photoThe city, the street where we hold outreach
Home base

Dar es Salaam

Our team thereVladislav Kozarez and Victoria Tetenko, full time since 2023
Local partnerNone yet; our team leads the work
The workStreet evangelism, food distribution
GalleryPhotos and video from Dar
Place photoKagongo Church, Lake Tanganyika behind the town
Kagongo

Kigoma

Our team thereCrestina Guin, who oversees our projects and events
Local partnerPastor Charles Kazubura, CMF, Kagongo Church. Three years together.
The workKagongo Church (80 adults, 120 children), children's ministry, a children's home, a well planned by the end of 2026, and the site of the future mission base
GalleryPhotos and video from Kigoma
Place photoMaasai land outside Arusha, the road in
Maasai outreach

Arusha

Our team thereVisits from our team; no one lives there
Local partnerTrusted local leaders who hold the Bibles and curriculum we leave
The workBibles and the gospel to the Maasai
GalleryPhotos and video from Arusha
Tanzania in numbers

The country, with dates and sources

Ranges where sources disagree. Full source list on request.

Updated Sept 2026
People61.7 million (2022 census); about 67.5 million today. Two-thirds under 25.National Bureau of Statistics; UN estimates
Capital · largest cityDodoma · Dar es Salaam, more than 5 million people. 31 regions.
LanguagesKiswahili national; English official. More than 100 languages spoken.
FaithChristians roughly 55 to 65%; Muslims 30 to 37%, with a large share along the coast where we live. 93% say religion is very important in their lives.Surveys 2010 to 2025; Pew 2010. The census has not asked about religion since 1967.
Income48% live below $3.00 a day; 59% of families cannot afford a nutritious diet; 7 in 10 depend on farming.World Bank 2025; WFP
Water50% with basic drinking water; 79% in towns, 37% in the countryside.WHO/UNICEF 2015; national data
SchoolHalf of lower-secondary-age children are out of school. Only 8.9% finish upper secondary.UNESCO 2024; 2022
Health30% of under-fives stunted; 43 of every 1,000 children die before age five.Demographic and Health Survey 2022
Stories · from the field

Real stories, real people.

This is what we can give you that a large charity cannot: the real story of where your hard-earned money went. A family. A church. A life in actual need. Everyone shown gave verbal permission. Lines marked with a dotted underline are waiting for the person's own words.

Team photoVlad, Vica and Crestina, named left to right
Our story

“There is hope for the fields.”

Three words spoken three times over Vica in 2023, before we moved. How the ministry got its name, in her words.

2023 · Spartanburg to Dar es Salaam · 4 min
Consented photoPastor Charles at Kagongo Church
Kigoma

Building Kagongo Church with Pastor Charles

Three years, one church built, one restored, and a children's ministry of 120. One sentence in Pastor Charles's own words.

2023 to 2026 · Kigoma · photos
Consented photoBibles handed to a Maasai leader
Arusha

Bibles for the Maasai

Why we leave curriculum and Bibles with trusted leaders instead of coming back every month. More than 250 Bibles given so far.

Arusha · photos
Real photo · permission givenDistribution day
Dar es Salaam

Food in one hand, the gospel in the other

A distribution day, and what happens after the food is gone: prayer, the message, and the promise to come back.

Dar es Salaam · photos
Consented photoThe home's staff, no child identifiable
Kigoma

Two children's homes

One we support today. One in its first stages of construction, opening in about two years, where we plan to be heavily involved.

Kigoma · photos
Compound modelThe 3D model of the planned base
Mission base

Phase 1: land, a wall and a well

The seven months that decide the next three years. What gets built first, and why everything else waits.

By April 2027 · Kigoma · 3 min
No photo neededPrayer requests come as text from the team
Prayer

Pray with us this season

Six requests from the team: the land, the well, Kagongo, the Maasai, the children's home, and the three of us.

September 2026 · 2 min
How we tell stories

We ask before we photograph or film, and again before we publish. Consent is verbal, given in person. On this site we never publish a child's full name together with their face and location, and every caption says who, where and when as far as we know it. Nothing is staged.

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Our storyIn Vica's words

There is hope for the fields.

In 2023, before we moved to Tanzania, a friend spoke a prophetic word over me. In it he said one phrase three times: “There is hope for the fields.” It became our name.

By Victoria Tetenko, Executive Director · Dar es Salaam · September 2026

Team photoVlad, Vica and Crestina together, named left to right in the caption.
Vladislav Kozarez, Victoria Tetenko and Crestina Guin. Photo: Hope for the Fields.

Our first trip to Tanzania was in 2016, to open a computer school, a project called Sowing. We kept coming back. In 2023 we moved here full time to work closely with that school and oversee it.

By then the shape of our calling had changed. In 2020 we had started doing street evangelism wherever we went in the world, and a desire had grown in us to live out a life that resembled the book of Acts: to see healings, miracles and deliverance, to baptize in the name of Jesus, and most of all to start training disciples. Reaching people where they are became our main ministry and our passion.

“There is hope for the fields.” He said it three times. It stood out to me, and I could not put it down.

When we needed a name for our legal documents, I mentioned the phrase to Vlad and Crestina. We all knew at once that it was the right one. It is connected to prophecies and dreams that God spoke to us over many years before the ministry existed. It is a biblical phrase, but it did not come from one verse. It came from a word spoken over us.

That year Hope for the Fields, Inc. became a 501(c)(3) in South Carolina. On 29 April 2026 we were registered in Tanzania as an international NGO. We had started our work here through churches; now we run our own projects and events in Dar es Salaam, Kigoma and Arusha.

People ask why we did not stay and serve at home. The honest answer is that God called us here, and we had willing and able hearts to leave the familiar for the unfamiliar. Many things had to be sacrificed to embark on a journey like this. But a life called to Christ is a life called to sacrifice, and we believe that wherever God calls us is the best, most fruitful and safest place for us to be.

Help us finish Phase 1Land in Kigoma, a perimeter wall and a well before April 2027. That is where every undirected gift goes first this year.
Give toward Phase 1

The dates, plainly

  • 2016 · first trip to Tanzania, the computer school
  • 2020 · street evangelism begins, and the desire to live like the book of Acts
  • 2023 · the word, the move, and the 501(c)(3) (IRS letter dated 23 April 2023)
  • 2026 · registered in Tanzania as an international NGO, No. I-NGO/R/9747 (29 April 2026)

More stories

Kigoma

Building Kagongo Church with Pastor Charles
Arusha

Bibles for the Maasai
Dar es Salaam

Food in one hand, the gospel in the other
About · who we are

Three Americans who moved to Tanzania to live like the book of Acts.

Vlad, Vica and Crestina are from Spartanburg, South Carolina. They live in Dar es Salaam and Kigoma, preach on the streets, run a church with a Tanzanian pastor, and run the ministry with a five-person US board. Friends and family fund all of it.

Our story

Ten years, told plainly.

  1. 2016First trip to Tanzania, to open a computer school, a project called Sowing. We kept coming back.
  2. 2020Street evangelism begins, wherever in the world we go. A desire grows to live out the book of Acts: healings, miracles, deliverance, baptism in the name of Jesus, and discipleship training.
  3. 2023“There is hope for the fields.” A friend speaks the phrase three times over Vica. We move to Tanzania full time. Hope for the Fields, Inc. is incorporated in South Carolina and recognized as a 501(c)(3), IRS letter dated 23 April 2023.
  4. 2026Registered in Tanzania as an international NGO, No. I-NGO/R/9747, on 29 April 2026. Three years of work with Pastor Charles in Kigoma; Kagongo Church built and full.
  5. 2027Phase 1 of the mission base: land, perimeter wall and well, finished before April.
Read the whole story, in Vica's words
Team photoVlad, Vica and Crestina, and Pastor Charles when he is with us, named left to right in the caption.
A word spoken in 2023

“There is hope for the fields.”

Said three times, over Vica, by a friend, months before the move. It is a biblical phrase, but the name did not come from one verse. It came from that word, and from prophecies and dreams over many years before the ministry existed.

Why “for the fields”

Not from a verse. From a word spoken over us.

When we needed a name for our legal documents, Vica mentioned the phrase to Vlad and Crestina, and all three knew it was right. Jesus did tell his disciples to look at the fields and pray for workers, and we love those verses, but the name came first as a word spoken over us. The fields are wherever people have not yet heard.

Hope for the Fields logo

How the three parts fit

In TanzaniaOur team, and one partner

Vlad and Vica live in Dar es Salaam, Crestina in Kigoma. In Kigoma we work with Pastor Charles Kazubura of CMF, who leads Kagongo Church. In Dar es Salaam and Arusha our own team leads the work. Hope for the Fields is registered in Tanzania as an international NGO.

In the United StatesThe ministry and its board

Hope for the Fields, Inc. is a South Carolina 501(c)(3) with a five-person board that meets once a year. A conflict-of-interest policy is in place. The treasurer completes the accounting and taxes, and our Form 990 is filed every year.

Between themFriends, family and a phone

Every dollar comes from people who know us. Once a month Vlad or Vica calls or texts each donor with what their gift is doing. Every summer we come to the States to raise the next year's support.

Our team

Three Americans on the field full time, and the pastor we work with in Kigoma. The quotes are waiting for each person's own words.

Vladislav KozarezCEO and President · Spartanburg, SC → Dar es Salaam

Leads the ministry and keeps its finances. On the field full time since 2023.

One sentence in Vlad's own words about why he does this.

Victoria TetenkoExecutive Director and board member · Spartanburg, SC → Dar es Salaam

Received the word that named the ministry. Sends the year-end receipts and, with Vlad, calls every donor.

One sentence in Vica's own words.

Crestina GuinSecretary · oversees Kigoma · Spartanburg, SC → Kigoma

Oversees our projects and events in Kigoma, including Kagongo Church and the children's ministry with Pastor Charles.

One sentence in Crestina's own words.

Pastor Charles KazuburaLocal partner · CMF · Kagongo Church, Kigoma · three years together

Built Kagongo Church with our team, organizes outreach events and leads the children's ministry. He is in charge of the church.

One sentence in Pastor Charles's own words.

US board of directors

Five directors under the US documents. The board meets once a year. A conflict-of-interest policy is in place.

Vladislav KozarezCEO · President
Victoria TetenkoExecutive Director
Roni TulisovTreasurer
Crestina GuinSecretary
Dima TitarenkoBoard member
What we believe

Non-denominational. Shaped by the book of Acts.

“They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”Acts 2:42, NIV

  1. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes, and we are not ashamed of it (Romans 1:16).
  2. The Bible is God's word. Holding to Jesus' teaching is what makes us his disciples, and his truth sets people free (John 8:31-32).
  3. We expect what the early church saw: healings, miracles and deliverance, and we baptize in the name of Jesus (Acts 2).
  4. The Holy Spirit gives power to be witnesses to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8), and Jesus sends us to preach the gospel to all creation (Mark 16:15).
  5. The goal is disciples who make disciples: going, baptizing, teaching them to obey everything Jesus commanded (Matthew 28:19-20), and taking up the cross daily (Luke 9:23).

We come from a non-denominational background. These are our core beliefs and what we want our ministry to look like.

Whom we reach

Everyone we meet.

We see every person who does not know Jesus as Lord and Savior as equally lost. There are not some who are more lost than others, whatever their religion. At outreach events we do not target one crowd; we look for people who are lost. In the region where we live those people are mostly Muslim, and that changes nothing about how God pursues them or how we evangelize. Everyone in need is someone we want to help.

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”Matthew 28:19-20, NIV

How we tell stories

We ask before we photograph or film, and again before we publish. Consent is verbal, given in person. Adults are named with permission. On this site a child's full name never appears with their face and location. Full policy on the policies page.

Accountability · where the money goes

How your gift reaches Tanzania.

We are a small ministry funded entirely by friends and family, so we would rather show you exactly how it works than dress it up. Here is every step a dollar takes, who touches it, and what is public.

You give

By card through Donorbox, our secure checkout powered by Stripe, or by Zelle, Cash App or Venmo. When we are in the States each summer, cash is welcome too.

You get a receipt

Donorbox emails an IRS-compliant receipt automatically. For Zelle, Cash App and Venmo gifts, our Executive Director sends a receipt to your email at the end of the year, so include your email in the payment note.

It reaches the field

The money is spent in Tanzania by the same people who thank you for it. Our CEO, Vlad, keeps the finances and the records.

You hear from us

Once a month Vlad or Vica calls or texts each donor about what their money is going toward. Updates go out on Facebook and Instagram.

We file

Our treasurer completes the accounting and taxes. Form 990 is filed every year and is public. We do not have an outside audit yet, and we say so plainly.

United States

Hope for the Fields, Inc.

Status501(c)(3) public charity; contributions are tax-deductible in the US to the extent allowed by law
EIN92-3765135
IncorporatedSouth Carolina, USA
IRS determination letterDated 23 April 2023
Fiscal sponsorNone; gifts come straight to the ministry
Charitable solicitationRegistered and compliant in South Carolina
Form 990Filed every year · look it up on the IRS site (enter EIN 92-3765135)
Tanzania

Registered international NGO

Registration No.I-NGO/R/9747
Issued29 April 2026
Before thatWe worked through local churches. Now we run our own projects and events.
Local partnerPastor Charles Kazubura, CMF, Kagongo Church, Kigoma
Team baseDar es Salaam (Vlad and Vica) and Kigoma (Crestina)
Where the money goes

Right now: Phase 1 first.

Until April 2027 most gifts go to Phase 1 of the mission base in Kigoma: the land, the perimeter wall and the well. The running work continues alongside it: Kagongo Church and the children's ministry in Kigoma, Bibles to the Maasai in Arusha, food distribution and street evangelism in Dar es Salaam. Larger events are paused so the base gets built.

Designated gifts

If you direct a gift to a place or a project, it goes where you sent it. Undirected gifts go where the month requires, which this year means Phase 1.

What we do not have yet

An outside audit or CPA review, an ECFA accreditation, a Charity Navigator rating. Those come with size. What we have is a five-person board, a treasurer who files every year, a public Form 990, and a phone call every month.

“For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man.”2 Corinthians 8:21, NIV

Governance
Board5 directors: CEO and President, Executive Director, Treasurer, Secretary, one board member
MeetsOnce a year
PoliciesConflict-of-interest policy in place
FinancesKept by the CEO; accounting and taxes completed by the treasurer
AuditNone yet. Form 990 filed annually and public.

Public records

Everything here can be checked without asking us.

Form 990, every yearIRS Tax Exempt Organization Search (enter EIN 92-3765135). Also available from us on request by email.
IRS determination letterHope for the Fields, Inc., dated 23 April 2023
Tanzanian registrationInternational NGO No. I-NGO/R/9747, issued 29 April 2026
South Carolina charitable solicitationRegistered and compliant
Conflict-of-interest policyIn place, held by the board
Donor privacy, safeguarding and termsRead online
Questions about money? Write to us and Vlad or Vica will answer. Hopeforthefields@gmail.com
Get involved

Pray, serve, partner, host.

Giving is one way to walk with us. Prayer comes first. Coming to serve, bringing your church, and hosting us when we are in the States each summer are the others.

Pray Come serve Partner church Host us Give monthly
Prayer

Ask the Lord of the harvest with us.

Prayer is the first thing we ask for. We post requests as they come on Facebook and Instagram, and we text them to the people who ask. Send us a note with your name and, if you like, a number to text, and Vlad or Vica will include you.

Tell us you're praying Requests on Instagram Facebook

Text messages stop any time you reply STOP. We never share your number.

“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”Matthew 9:37-38, NIV

This season · September 2026
  • Phase 1 of the mission base in Kigoma: the land, the wall and the well, funded before April 2027.
  • The quote, and then the drilling, of the well at Kagongo Church by the end of the year.
  • Pastor Charles Kazubura and the 80 adults and 120 children of Kagongo Church.
  • Open hearts among the Maasai around Arusha, and the leaders who hold the Bibles we left with them.
  • The second children's home in Kigoma, now under construction.
  • Vlad, Vica and Crestina: health, protection and boldness in a region where most of our neighbors are Muslim.
Come and serve

Come serve with us.

We do not run scheduled team trips. If you want to come and serve as an individual, come. If you want to bring a team, we will help you set it up. You will join whatever is happening while you are here: street outreach, the children's ministry in Kigoma, a Sunday at Kagongo, a distribution in Dar es Salaam.

The practical part

  • Cost depends on where you fly from, how long you stay and what is planned while you are here, so we work it out with you.
  • Message us on Facebook or Instagram, or email Hopeforthefields@gmail.com, and we will coordinate dates.
  • We ask before we photograph or film anyone, and again before we publish. You will do the same.
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Serving photo · permission givenA visitor serving alongside the team at an outreach, adults named with permission.

“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”Luke 9:23, NIV

Partner churches

Be our first partner church.

No church supports us yet. Our funding is 100% friends and family, and we would love for that to change. A church that stands with us gets a team it can call by first name and a work it can visit.

One

Pray and host a Sunday

Commit to pray for us by name, and give us a Sunday or a midweek evening when we are in the States each summer. We bring the story; you bring the room.

Two

Commit monthly

A monthly commitment your missions budget can plan on. We rely on monthly gifts for every project and event, and a church can carry a whole project: the Kagongo well, a year of the children's ministry, a piece of Phase 1.

Three

Send people

Send an individual or a team to serve with us in Tanzania. We coordinate the dates and the work, and your people come home knowing the names.

What a partner church receives: a monthly call or text from Vlad or Vica, updates from the field, a visit every summer, and a standing invitation to come and see.Talk to us about partnering
Host us

Every summer, we come home to raise the next year.

Once a year we fly to the States for annual fundraising: living rooms, church halls, backyard gatherings. Most of our donors are in Washington and South Carolina, but we will come where the door is open. Cash is welcome at a gathering; everything else goes through Donorbox, Zelle, Cash App or Venmo.

  • A living room and a dozen friends is enough
  • A Sunday service or a midweek group at your church
  • A youth group that wants to hear from people their own age on the field
Invite us
Follow the work

Where the updates are.

We do not send a newsletter. Most of the people who give to us are young and on social media, so that is where we post: Facebook and Instagram. Every donor also gets a personal call or text from Vlad or Vica each month, with what their gift is doing.

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Gallery · missions and places

Every place, every mission.

Photos and video from Dar es Salaam, Kigoma and Arusha, and from our summers in the States, filed by mission and by place. Everyone shown gave verbal permission before we published. Captions say who, where and when as far as we know it.

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Give to Hope for the Fields

Choose what your gift does.

Every gift goes to work in Tanzania through the same three people who will thank you for it. This year the first priority is Phase 1 of our mission base, and the running work in Kigoma, Arusha and Dar es Salaam continues alongside it. Monthly gifts are what we build on; one-time gifts are welcome too. Both are tax-deductible in the US.

Card and bank gifts are completed on Donorbox, our secure checkout powered by Stripe. No card details are entered on this site.

Field Partners · monthly giving

Every month, every project.

Field Partners give a set amount each month. No church or organization backs us, so every project and event runs on the monthly commitments of friends and family. We ask each partner to consider $100 a month, and we say thank you in person: a call or a text from Vlad or Vica every month.

$25 /mo

Toward Bibles and supplies for the street outreaches.

$300 a year

 $50 /mo

Toward the children's ministry at Kagongo Church, 120 children every week.

$600 a year

 What we ask$100 /mo

The amount we ask every Field Partner to consider. It carries the running work and Phase 1 together.

$1,200 a year

 $250 /mo

Toward Phase 1 of the mission base: the land, the wall, the well.

$3,000 a year
What Field Partners receive
  • A personal call or text from Vlad or Vica every month, with what your gift is doing.
  • Updates from the field on Facebook and Instagram, as they happen.
  • An automatic receipt from Donorbox each month, and a year-end summary for your taxes.
  • First word when something is happening: a well being drilled, land being signed, a team going out.
  • A standing invitation to come and serve, with dates we work out together.
Become a Field Partner

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”1 John 3:18, NIV

Common questions
Can I change or stop?

Yes, any time, from the link in your Donorbox receipt or by emailing us. No phone call needed.

Is it tax-deductible?

Yes, in the US, through Hope for the Fields, Inc., a 501(c)(3), EIN 92-3765135.

Can I give another way?

Zelle, Cash App and Venmo work for monthly gifts too. Set the recurring payment in the app and put your email in the note so we can send your year-end receipt.

Can I direct my gift?

Yes, to a place or a project. Undirected gifts go where the month needs them, which this year means Phase 1.

Thank you.

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Your receiptAutomatic for card gifts

Donorbox emails an IRS-compliant receipt from Hope for the Fields, Inc. as soon as the gift goes through. Zelle, Cash App and Venmo gifts get a year-end receipt from our Executive Director.

A real personVlad or Vica will reach out

By call, text or message, as soon as we can, for a gift of any size. Every donor hears from us personally each month about what their money is doing.

Follow the workFacebook and Instagram

That is where the updates go: the outreaches, Kagongo on a Sunday, the well when it is drilled, the land when it is signed.

Prefer Zelle, Cash App or Venmo?

These come straight to the ministry.

ZelleHopeforthefields@gmail.com

Put your email in the payment note so we can send your year-end receipt.

“I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.”Philippians 1:3-5, NIV

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Policies

Privacy, accessibility, disclosures, safeguarding.

Written to match how we actually work. Questions about any of it: Hopeforthefields@gmail.com.

Donor privacy Accessibility State disclosures Safeguarding Terms

Donor privacy policy

Hope for the Fields, Inc. does not sell, rent, trade or share donor names, emails, phone numbers or giving history with any other organization. We use your details to send receipts, to call or text you about the work if you give, and to comply with the law. Most of our donors prefer to stay anonymous, and we never publish a donor's name or gift without asking.

Card and bank gifts are processed by Donorbox and Stripe under their own privacy terms; card details never touch this site. Zelle, Cash App and Venmo payments are handled by those services. To see, correct or delete what we hold, or to stop any contact, email Hopeforthefields@gmail.com. Texts are sent only with your consent and stop when you reply STOP.

This site sets no tracking cookies and sends nothing about your gift to advertising platforms.

Accessibility statement

We aim for WCAG 2.2 level AA across this site: keyboard access, visible focus, alt text on every image, text that scales, and motion that respects your system's reduced-motion setting. We check the site with a keyboard and a screen reader as we build it.

If anything is hard to use, tell us at Hopeforthefields@gmail.com and we will fix it and help you finish what you came to do.

State charitable solicitation disclosures

Hope for the Fields, Inc. is a South Carolina nonprofit corporation recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 92-3765135). It is registered for charitable solicitation in South Carolina and accepts gifts from donors in every state. Registration does not imply endorsement, approval or recommendation by any state.

Our most recent Form 990 is available from the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search and from us on request by email. Some states require their own wording for their residents; those statements are added here as each registration is completed.

Safeguarding and storytelling policy

This describes what we actually do, not what a template says. It applies to our team, to anyone who comes to serve with us, and to everything published on this site.

  1. Ask first. Before we photograph or film anyone, we ask. Before we publish, we ask again whether we may use the picture or video publicly. Consent is verbal, given in person.
  2. Children. On this site a child's full name never appears together with their face and location. Children are shown in groups or from a distance where a face is not the point.
  3. Children's homes. We support one children's home in Kigoma and are involved with a second that is under construction. Everything on this site about the children there follows the two rules above.
  4. Honest images. Nothing staged. No editing to make people look poorer than they are. Every caption says who, where and when, as far as we know it.
  5. Taking a photo down. Anyone who appears on this site can ask us to remove a photo or video by emailing Hopeforthefields@gmail.com, and we will.
  6. Concerns. Anything that worries you about how a child or an adult was treated, photographed or portrayed goes to the same address and is read by the Executive Director.

Terms and notices

Gifts are received by Hope for the Fields, Inc., a US 501(c)(3), EIN 92-3765135, which retains full discretion and control over the use of all contributions. Gifts directed to a place or a project are used there; if a project is fully funded we will contact you before redirecting your gift. Recurring gifts through Donorbox can be changed or cancelled at any time from your receipt. Refund requests within 30 days are honored where the gift has not yet been spent.

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