New Hope Brisbane

Jesma O’Hara

Our guest speaker was Jesma O’Hara. She is fired with a passion to help some of the world’s most needy children and their communities, she founded Neighbours Aid Community Stores Inc in 2002. The organisation has grown from one small store in a Queensland rural town to 5 stores supporting over 900 children in poor rural and urban slum communities in Malawi, Kenya, India, Fiji and Israel. Jesma is a writer and speaker who regularly teaches in Australia and internationally. Jesma holds a B ARTS, Post Grad Diploma and MA in Early Christianity and Judaism and is a Doctor of Ministry Candidate at Harvest Bible College. She has also completed several courses in Jerusalem on the Hebrew Roots of Christianity.