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Hope Tribe supports refugees and displaced families who have fled war, violence, and persecution move toward dignity, stability, and belonging through practical support, trusted relationships, and long-term care.

15+ years serving refugees and displaced families

Based in Dallas, TX. Serving families in the US and abroad

We practice a different model of carE

Most refugee support is foundationally transactional.

A food bank gives food.
A charity distributes supplies.
A resettlement agency provides services.

Hope Tribe’s support is foundationally relational.

Over years of walking with refugees and displaced families, we saw the same reality again and again: families were often expected to rebuild their lives through systems that struggled to support them when their needs didn’t fit the mold.

We saw mothers, fathers, and children who needed more than services.

They needed presence.
They needed friendship.
They needed advocacy.
They needed people willing to learn their names and stay.

Hope Tribe grew from that conviction.

Most organizations ask,
“How many can we help?”

HOPE TRIBE asks,
“How deeply can we help?”

Our Partners

Hope Tribe collaborates with churches and trusted organizations that share a desire to care for refugees and displaced families in personal, practical, and relational ways.

The values that drive the care we provide

Presence

We show up with no agenda, no quick fix, and no assumed exit date.

Dignity

We see and treat people as people, not cases, causes, numbers, or projects.

Relationship

We work family-to-family and face-to-face because love is best experienced in a relationship.

Faithfulness

We are not trying to scale beyond our calling. We are trying to be faithful with the families placed in front of us.

Meet OUR FOUNDERS

Derek & Meagin Dominguez

Hope Tribe began with a simple conviction: displaced families are not statistics.

They are mothers, fathers, children, neighbors, and friends.

For Derek and Megan, this work became personal in 2008, when they began serving among the homeless, orphans, refugees, and oppressed. Over the years, that calling led their family overseas to Europe, where they moved with their two daughters to work directly with refugees, and later back to the United States in 2018.

Along the way, they learned something that continues to shape Hope Tribe today: it is hard to care deeply about a statistic, but it is much easier to care about a person you know by name.

That is why Hope Tribe works through trusted relationships. The families we serve are not random names on a website. They are people known by our family, our friends, our partners, or trusted relationships on the ground.

They are families who have fled war, violence, persecution, or crisis and are now trying to rebuild their lives without the network of support many of us take for granted.

Hope Tribe exists to come alongside them through practical support, trusted relationships, and long-term care - helping restore what displacement steals: dignity, stability, belonging, and hope.

And for those who support the work, the invitation is not only to give from a distance. It is to move closer.

To pray.
To give.
To listen.
To learn their stories.
To take one faithful step toward the people Jesus spent his life moving toward.

Hope Tribe was born from the belief that love is not efficient. It is relational. And when we walk with displaced families, we do not just help them rebuild their lives. Our own faith is often deepened and formed along the way.

Meet our Staff

Amy Elzik | Director of Operations

Amy Elzik brings over 10 years of business, operations, and strategy leadership across technology, investment, and nonprofit sectors. She holds a Master of International Business from Hult International Business School, earned in London, and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of La Verne.

Amy has served in a missions capacity since an early age. She began serving refugees in 2015, including time alongside Derek and Megan in Europe in 2017. Those years shaped her conviction to serve the people Jesus spent his life moving toward. At Hope Tribe, Amy builds the systems and structure that enable a small team to care deeply and consistently for displaced families.

Meet Our Board

A small team committed to deep care

Hope Tribe is led by people who believe in relational, long-term, dignity-restoring care for refugees and displaced families.

Our board, founders, and partners help steward the mission, guide the work, and ensure families are served with wisdom, integrity, and love.

Jason Ingram

  • Jason Ingram is one of the most sought after songwriters and producers in worship and CCM. He has written with an array of worship leaders including Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Lauren Daigle, Hillsong, Bethel Music, and many others. Every Sunday churches around the world are singing songs written by Ingram, including songs like “Forever Reign,” “Great Are You Lord,” and “Never Once,” to name a few.

BOB TILL - Secretary

  • Bob has served in cross-cultural ministry for more than 40 years, including 16 years teaching at the Greek Bible College in Athens and various leadership roles with Greater Europe Mission. Today, he and his wife continue to serve as GEM Associates, with a focus on immigrants and refugees in Europe.

    Bob’s heart for refugee care deepened during his first trip to Lesvos, Greece, in 2016, when thousands of people were arriving each day, many fleeing the Syrian civil war. Through Hope Tribe, he has seen how personal, practical care can help displaced families experience dignity, belonging, and hope.

    For Bob, Hope Tribe gives followers of Jesus a tangible way to respond when the global refugee crisis feels overwhelming: by coming alongside one family, one relationship, and one story at a time.

Adam keller - Treasurer

  • Adam Keller earned his B.B.A. in International Business with a minor in Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin. Following graduation, Adam went to work overseas creating investment guides on developing countries highlighting foreign direct investment and joint venture opportunities in Turkey, Romania, and Azerbaijan.

    Since January 2005, he has been a Certified Financial Planner and Accredited Estate Planner designator. He loves outdoor adventures, his family, and his friends. He’s completed the world’s toughest canoe race, the Texas Water Safari, and hiked some of Colorado’s many 14ers.

    Adam lives with his wife, Lori, and their two daughters in Murphy, TX. He is actively involved in his church and community.

Michelle Gross

  • Michelle Gross is a passionate fundraising leader dedicated to advancing pediatric healthcare. As Director of Development at Children’s Medical Center Foundation in Dallas, TX, she drives major and principal gift development and leads the Grateful Patient Family and Clinician Engagement Programs. Since joining Children’s in 2006, Michelle has cultivated meaningful relationships with annual, major, and principal donors, including professional athletes, helping to secure transformative gifts that impact young patients and their families. She also served as an advisor for a junior board to the Foundation Board of Directors for eight years.

    Before joining Children’s, Michelle was a Development Director for United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, where she fostered high-level partnerships with major corporate donors and leadership givers.

    Outside of work, Michelle channels her passion for service into volunteering with organizations like the Junior League of Collin County, Pet Partners, and Hope Tribe. She lives just outside of Dallas with her husband, Brian, and their two Goldendoodles, Chloe and Finn.