Good Neighbor Gala

Friday, September 18, 2026

Date: Friday, September 18, 2026
Location: Hope Lutheran Church

Address: 1301 Vintage Ln, Rochester, NY 14626
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM (Doors open at 5:30 PM)

Join us for food, entertainment, special guests, and raising funds for World Relief Western New York!

This special evening is our biggest gathering of the year — a time to celebrate stories of resilience, rally community support, and raise vital funds to help refugees and immigrants thrive.

What to Expect:

Powerful stories of transformation

A delicious immigrant-made meal shared in community

A moving keynote address by Daniel Yang

A raffle with unique local experiences and treasures

Opening doors to meaningful employment and long-term financial and legal stability for newcomers in our region.

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Keynote Speaker: Daniel Yang

Daniel Yang serves as the Senior Director of Global Mission and Church Movements at World Relief. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Church Multiplication Institute at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center. Daniel has been a pastor, church planter, engineer and technology consultant. He has planted churches in Detroit, Dallas, Toronto, and Chicago, either as the lead planter or through recruiting, training, assessing, and mentoring church planters.

Daniel is a sought-after conference speaker, missional strategist, consultant, and co-author of Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church (InterVarsity, May 2022) and Becoming a Future-Ready Church: 8 Shifts to Encourage and Empower the Next Generation of Leaders (Zondervan, October 2024).