We focus our programs and services on four main priorities:

Education, Connections to Resources, Healthy Activities and Faith Development. We assist students to excel in school, have healthy and challenging activities to engage in, and cultivate positive and meaningful relationships. Through this, hope and a vision for the future is developed. These priorities are based in the community development principles of dignity, local leadership, empowerment, and justice, on the foundation of our Christian faith in action.

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Our History

M​obile Hope began informally in 1996, when Jill Dejewski, then a middle school youth pastor at Wayzata Free Church, was asked to start a Vacation Bible School (VBS) at Maple Hill Estates in Corcoran, MN. Interest in VBS then led to year-round faith formation for children and a bible study for the women. Homework Help for school-aged children was added in 2009. Demand for programming continued to grow. To meet this demand, community dinners and informal resident surveys helped guide direction/activities. In 2010, a formal leadership team, mission, and strategies were established that enabled us to be intentional about our approach and future work. Out of those leadership meetings, Mobile Hope became a 501c3 in 2013, Co-founded by Jill and Brian Dejewski. Jill Dejewski, Mobile Hope’s Co-founder and Director of Programs, has been involved in the ministry since its inception in 1996. Jill and her husband Brian, Mobile Hope’s Executive Director, moved into the park with their family in June of 2013, to live full-time for over 8 years alongside and in community with the individuals and families being served by the program.   

Then, in 2015 through a partnership with the City of Corcoran, the Hope Center was built in Maple Hill Estates to better meet the needs the community had named.  The multi-purpose community center offers a safe space for neighbors to gather, for events and programs to be offered, for staff to connect with neighbors and to connect them with resources.  The increased space gave Mobile Hope the ability to expand the programs, services and opportunities available to all residents.

In 2017, a group of community partners and churches asked Mobile Hope to assist them in serving families in Dayton Park Properties.  Two years later, we were approached to take over operations for this team and adopt Dayton Park as our second official location.  Staff were able to build relationships within the community, began offering regular programming and needed services and community connections.  In February of 2019, we began to work out of a Hope Center site brought together by community supporters in partnership with the park management. 
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In 2023, Mobile Hope was invited by park ownership and community partners to consider adding a third site at Centennial Square in Blaine, MN.  Being such a large mobile home community of 568 homes, we spent close to the next year gathering information and preparing for a proper launch into the community.  In May of 2024, we began assisting with summer programs and in the fall, launched regular after school programming and community events.  ​

​Faith in Action

Mobile Hope was formed on the foundation of our Christian faith, which compels us to both love God and love our neighbor as ourselves (Matthew 22:36-40).  We wish to see all people, regardless of economic status or culture, as God sees them and honor Him by serving those around us.  This is what drives all we do.  We do so, with the hope offered to us, and which we pass along to others, which is the hope of Jesus Christ manifest in action.  This hope is clearly stated in our theme-verse of Romans 15:13 - "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." 

While we are a Christian ministry, participation in any of our programs and services is voluntary. Residents may choose to participate in some or all of our available programs and services and are never required to participate in faith-based programming to receive services.