About Us
Welcome! Bienvenue! Karibuni!
¡Bienvenidos! Kuwakaribisha!
Our Programs
WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT GROUP (WEG) | Creating brave space for resettled refugee women to find community and access resources.
SHAMBA YA AMANI (FARM OF PEACE) | Feeding our community—both body and soul.
PAMOJA | Pairing newcomer and Houstonian families to form relationships and engage in mutual learning.
Janet Allen | Johnhenry Coker | Dr. Mary Brandt | Jean DeMaster | Oscar Mmari | Lisa Sampson | Stacy Stepler | Leah Taylor
Rev. Hannah R. Terry | Executive Director
Dr. Kim Meyer | Farm Manager
Kelsey Johnson | Shamba Volunteer Coordinator
Constancia Minani | Farm Steward
N. Francine Murhebwa | Pamoja Program Director
Rev. Ginny Griggs | Director of Congregational Partnerships
Esperance Chibalonza | Head Farm Steward
Francisca Hien | Farm Beekeeper
Salima Lwakala | Farm Seed Steward
Roda Nyirarwimo | Farm Steward
Courtney Johnson | Accountant
Shirin Herman | Women’s Empowerment Group Co-Founder
Media
Articles, photos, podcasts + more
2023 | “Steadfast” We invite you to marvel with us upon the wonderful gift of mutual benefit that happens when we choose life together in community—in steadfast companionship.
2022 | “Bloom” Bloom where planted… we believe the roots FAM has established in Houston over these past 10 years make it possible for our community to bloom.
2021 | “Determined to Thrive” Throughout 2021, we stood shoulder to shoulder with one another, and our determination to thrive intensified. You can still hear our cheer, our cry of “Umoja Ni Nguvu” across the greater Houston area as we claim that we are stronger together.
2020 | “Rooted in Community” There’s no doubt that 2020 was a tremendously difficult year. And yet, 2020 was also a year of tremendous joy and growth as we have put down roots ever deeper with one another — in community. Join us in remembering and rejoicing in what we’ve accomplished together.
12. 2024 | “Counting every blessing: Shamba Ya Amani” [To Love by K. Gratwick]
11.2024 | “FAM Houston: Building Transformative Connections with Churches” [Texas Annual Conference News]
04.2024 | “How women from four different countries became ‘Accidental Sisters’” [Houston Public Media]
03.2024 | “Farm of Peace sells flower crop for good cause” [Alief International District]
12.2023 | “Baylor psychiatry trainees learn refugee experiences at FAM Houston” [Baylor College of Medicine]
06.2023 | “Home Away from Home” [Edible Houston]
12.2022 | “How do community gardens work?” [Houston Chronicle]
10.2022 | “New community establishes roots with refugee-run farm” [Texas Annual Conference News]
12.2021 | “Houston church sees volunteers and refugees walk together in new program” [Houston Chronicle]
10.2017 | “Rev. Hannah Terry: In It for the Long Haul” [Houstonia Magazine]
09.2016 | “Meet the Minister Building Bridges Between Refugee Communities in Houston” [Houstonia Magazine]
04.2016 | “Who Is My Neighbor?” [Faith and Leadership at Duke Divinity School]
04.2015 | "Urban + Suburban: Churches Partner in Apartment Ministry" [Texas Annual Conference]
08.2012 | "Coming into View" [Together magazine, Westbury United Methodist Church]
11.2023 | “Local Farms: Shamba Ya Amani” [Houston Food Bank]
01.2017 | “Houston in Black and White” [Houston Public Media, DiverseCity]
04.2016 | “Deep Listening” [Faith and Leadership at Duke Divinity School]
02.2015 | "James, Part 5" [St. Peter's United Methodist Church, Katy]
10.2014 | “Missional Imagination” [The Work of the People]
Determined to Thrive | 2021
Rooted in Community | 2020
Dreaming with God, Listening Deeply with Neighbor | 2019
08.2019 | “Updated: Refugees, Apartment Buildings, and the Work of God" [Reports from the Spiritual Frontier]
Working for justice by building empowered community among refugees, immigrants, and local Houstonians
through practices of hospitality, mutuality, storytelling & inclusivity.
FAM Houston is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
