Growing Project
What?
Each spring, Orchard Hill Church invites you to sponsor a “row of crops” by donating $25 or more to purchase seeds for planting. We have eighty acres (near Dike) designated for this project. Local farmers harvest these crops (many of them donate their time, equipment, gas, semis, etc), which allows this project to have a multiplying effect. The funds support both local & global mission partners!
Why?
In the past few years, we've been able to encourage our Mozambique partners with agricultural initiatives after a cyclone damaged their crops, partnered with Try Pie in the purchase of their food truck, supported Agricultural college students in Haiti as they get their degrees (which will impact the food sustainability in Haiti as they share their learnings), and help purchase a tractor of the Jamaican Deaf Village. (Read More below.) These are just a few of the ways this project is able to impact our community & the world.
How?
If you'd like to give to this project this year, here's how:
- Visit orchardhillchurch.org/give or click below.
- Select option you wish to give - Pushpay, Venmo, Apple Pay, or GPay
- Select the Giving Type as “Growing Project."
**You may also drop a check in the offering on a Sunday. Write "Growing Project" in the memo.
Thanks for being part of this mission!
Story of Impact: Jamaican Deaf Village
Last year (Spring 2024), a portion of the Growing Project funds went to help purchase a tractor for the Jamaican Deaf Village (JDV) in Mandeville, Jamaica. The tractor landed at JDV in November of 2024! JDV has been using it for plowing and field expansions. They have multiple implements to plow, soil turnover, some planting!
BASIC (our college & young adult ministry) has traveled to Jamaica during spring break for over 12 years to build relationships & serve the long term missionaries, staff & students at Christian Caribbean Centre for the Deaf (CCCD). JDV is an extension of CCCD that provides housing and work for Deaf adults & kids of Jamaica. Today they employ around people through farming, construction, woodworking, sewing, catering, and cattle. Through both the work and the discipleship that happens on campus, God is moving in the lives of the Deaf.
Throughout the years, BASIC has served at CCCD at both the Kingston & Knockpatrick campuses, while also visiting the JDC campus multiple times.
In March 2025, the BASIC team had the privilege of visiting the farm at Knockpatrick and meeting Shandell, Vince, and Richard. Their work ethic and dedication to cultivating the land in Jamaica left a lasting impression—something that’s clearly reflected at the JDV campus as well.
Tractor at the Jamaica Deaf Village
2023: BASIC Team at JDV
2025: BASIC Team in Knockpatrick - with Richard & Vince.
2025: BASIC Team in Kingston with CCCD staff & students
