Our Mission
To share the life-giving message of the Bible worldwide while investing in the most vulnerable.
What we do
Bible Teaching
Evangelistic
Outreach
Pastoral Care & Discipleship
Ministerial Services
(i.e., weddings, funerals)
Collect & Distribute Humanitarian Aid
Partnership with Local Pastoral Teams
Facilitate & Equip Short-Term Mission Teams
Leadership Development
Rev. Dr. Yajaira Gomez
When Rev. Dr. Yajaira Gomez speaks, audiences leave with more courage than they walked in with. A Missionary Pastor and founder of Lifegiving Ministries, she is a trilingual communicator (English, Spanish, and French) who connects across cultures and denominations. Her message has reached audiences through The 700 Club Canada, the Soul H2O podcast, and Crossroads’ See Hear Love on YES TV.
Since 2006, Yajaira has been serving in Africa and Latin America through Bible School Training, orphan sponsorship, feeding programs, and short-term mission teams. Yajaira holds a Master of Divinity from McMaster and a Doctor of Ministry from Tyndale, and serves as an associate PAOC Global Worker and Adjunct Faculty (Horizon and MCS). Wherever she speaks, hesitant hearts turn towards action, a calling made possible by the steady support of her husband and children in Niagara.
How We Started
In April 2006, Yajaira boarded a plane alone for a seven-week internship in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nation torn apart by war — the first time she had flown since she was ten years old. She was in her first year of a Master’s program and had only been a Christian for three years. She did not fully grasp the danger of where she was headed, but she trusted that God was the one sending her. She had no idea this trip would change the entire direction of her life. Within days of arriving in the villages surrounding Bukavu, she saw children walking hours to find food, families with no access to basic education, and communities carrying real poverty with a resilience she had never witnessed. It broke something open in her.
When a local Business Couples Ministry asked her to share the Gospel, Yajaira said yes. What began as a single invitation turned into fifty invitations, and Yajaira found herself teaching and preaching in the surrounding communities nearly every day for forty-nine days straight. Each time, she watched the same thing happen: people who had every reason to give up chose instead to hope. She realized the resilience she saw everywhere would not need charity. It would need someone to invest in it for the long haul.
Yajaira came home and founded Lifegiving Ministries so that call would not end when the internship did. Today, that same commitment carries on through a long-term education and feeding program in the Congo and a self-sustaining Bible school she planted in Belize — proof that what started with one seven-week trip became something built to outlast her own visits.
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