Rhonda G. Mincey is a nonprofit founder, educator, author, missionary, and leadership strategist whose work centers on helping people grow into who they were created to be.

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For more than 25 years, she has led across nonprofit, education, business, and community spaces—developing programs, building partnerships, mentoring emerging leaders, and creating opportunities for people and communities to move forward with dignity and purpose.

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In 2024, Rhonda was commissioned as a missionary, deepening a calling that had already begun shaping her life and work in Rwanda. Today, as Founder and CEO of Hope Springs Africa, she leads with a simple conviction:

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Lasting community transformation begins by developing local leaders who are equipped, trusted, and given room to lead.

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Her leadership philosophy is rooted in what she calls Leadership with Love—the belief that leadership is not simply about directing people or producing results, but about developing people, making room for others to grow, and stewarding responsibility well.

 

Through Hope Springs Africa, Rhonda helps shape work that connects leadership development with education, practical opportunity, faith, cross-cultural learning, and community-based initiatives across Rwanda. She has also helped create mission and cultural exchange experiences that invite others to enter Rwanda with humility, learn alongside local communities, and serve without making themselves the center of the story.

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Before Hope Springs Africa, Rhonda founded Great Youth, Inc. and Made 2B More, Inc., extending her commitment to youth development, women, education, and community empowerment. She also served as a college professor of Human Services, helping prepare future professionals for work in service-centered fields.

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Her work has included scholarship support, clean-water initiatives, girls’ and women’s health and dignity efforts, leadership development, youth programs, and community outreach. Her Notes of Hope campaign alone reached more than 2,000 people in Savannah through handwritten messages of encouragement.

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Rhonda’s service has been recognized through the Georgia Southern University Service Award, a letter of recognition from the Mayor of Savannah, GA., and the Pathfinders Award from TBS.

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But the work she values most is often less visible: seeing someone grow in confidence, watching a local leader take greater responsibility, hearing a young person imagine a different future, or recognizing that an opportunity once carried by HSA is now being carried forward by someone else.

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Rhonda is also the author of Refined in Rwanda: Where Obedience Meets Overflow, and Faith Finds Its Fire, with her next book, Released in Rwanda, continuing the story of faith, leadership, obedience, and what happens when calling becomes stewardship.

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At the heart of her work is a belief she returns to often:

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We are messengers of hope—not the miracle.

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And wherever she is called to serve, Rhonda seeks to lead the same way:

with faith, dignity, courage, and love.