TIKVA
TIKVA serves women and children in crisis on the streets of Medellín, Colombia, with community, training and holistic support. New Hope supports its founder, Rebekah Slick, and prays and serves alongside her team.
About TIKVA.
An independent ministry in Medellín, Colombia, meeting needs and empowering lives through the love and hope found in Jesus Christ.
Tikva means “hope” in Hebrew.
TIKVA's mission
At TIKVA, we provide community, training and holistic support for women and children in crisis.
TIKVA's vision
To see vibrant, thriving communities of women and children find their positive and productive places in God’s global family.
How it began
TIKVA was born on the streets of Medellín during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the Venezuelan migration crisis left more women and children than ever in extreme vulnerability. Founder Rebekah Slick and Team TIKVA answered with help and hope, and haven’t stopped since.
Why Medellín.
- 7.77MVenezuelans have fled their country since 2015
- 2.86MVenezuelans now in Colombia, where TIKVA serves
- 7.2MColombians displaced inside their own country
- 74%of human trafficking cases in Colombia in 2024 involved sexual exploitation
Migrants, the internally displaced, and women exploited through trafficking and prostitution all arrive at TIKVA’s door. Poverty, displacement and violence leave them vulnerable, and TIKVA meets them with shelter, trauma-informed care, vocational training and a path toward restoration.
Sources: R4V, 2025 · IDMC Global Report on Internal Displacement, 2026 · Defensoría del Pueblo de Colombia, 2024.
Five programs that help women and children in crisis.
TIKVA Feeding
A hot, nutritious meal for up to a hundred women and children every week, and a table where no one eats alone.
Every week · Up to ~100 served · No one eats alone
TIKVA Empowerment
Job training that pays: sewing, baking and beauty-salon skills so women can earn a daily income, plus tutoring for their children in reading, writing and math. Alongside it, women learn basic financing and entrepreneurship skills to build a small business, with small microgrants available for some to receive formal training or invest in their own venture.
Sewing, baking and beauty · Business and financial training · Tutoring for kids
TIKVA Emergency Shelter & Residential Care
Renovating now
Receiving women in their moment of critical need with emergency housing and basic care, right in a home of our own under renovation now. Women ready for a longer-term commitment, up to six months, receive food and housing, trauma counseling, discipleship, vocational training and social service care, with support for their children too.
Emergency housing · Up to six months · Trauma care and training
TIKVA Job Generation
A chance to work within TIKVA projects and start generating income and savings in beauty, sewing and baking. Women train at TIKVA Empowerment or Spa Esther, or use TIKVA’s facilities as they begin to build their own earnings.
Beauty, sewing and baking · Earn and save · Spa Esther
TIKVA Missions
Short-term trips, ongoing throughout the year, for those ready to come and serve vulnerable communities in Medellín and beyond.
Ongoing · Come and serve · Medellín and beyond
Rebekah Slick.
Founder of TIKVA, and a missionary New Hope supports.
In August 2023, Rebekah brought a first-hand report from Medellín to a New Hope missions Sunday.
In September 2026, a team from New Hope served alongside TIKVA in Medellín.
“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.”Hebrews 6:19
Three ways to be part of it.
Pray with TIKVA, go with a team, or give through New Hope.
Pray
Join a team committed to touching heaven for those who cannot cry out for themselves.
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Short-term trips, ongoing throughout the year, for those ready to come and serve vulnerable communities in Medellín and beyond.
Ask about the next tripGive
Give through New Hope in support of its missions work in Medellín.
Give through New HopeYour gift is made to New Hope Community Church (Clovis, CA), a U.S. 501(c)(3) church, in support of its missions work in Medellín. New Hope retains full discretion and control over the use of all gifts and issues all giving receipts. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Keep up with TIKVA.
News, prayer requests and volunteer opportunities, at tikva.ngo and on Instagram at @tikva.ngo.