The two-week Grahamstown (Makhanda) National Arts Festival Outreach this year was wonderfully blessed, exciting, and full of God’s setups! The team was able to visit many individuals that had previously accepted salvation or exchanged details, and spend quality time ministering personally to them.
Immediate, known results are…
We were contacted and asked if we’d like to partner with The Department of Health in reaching out to new mothers. The plan from the department was to hand out pamphlets with much needed health info, and they thought if we could add practical items like nappies, it would make it a much greater blessing and immediate help for these moms and their little ones! By God’s Grace and through miraculous supply of items, the project has taken off! Over the last months, we have been a part of over 1500 moms receiving these packs with pamphlets, nappies, soaps, lotions, and clothing items!
Our outreach team is on the road since Wednesday! With the new miracle van packed full of Bibles, tracts, Activated magazines, and other Gospel material, they have been witnessing and ministering up along the way to Makhanda. (Grahamstown) They will be witnessing there for the duration of the Arts Festival, and come back down again 7th July Lord willing. Two weeks in total.
The rest of the mission team here is continuing with local outreach, Bible studies, food distribution, and projects. Hooray for the miracles and testimonies to come! Thank you for your prayers and support!
The rest of the mission team here is continuing with local outreach, Bible studies, food distribution, and projects. Hooray for the miracles and testimonies to come! Thank you for your prayers and support!
There are many different kinds of fathers, and each with his own fathering style, but the unending, sacrificial love a father has for his children is a reflection of the way God is with us.
So here’s to all you fathers, dads, papas, and daddies, who lay your all on the line for your family, who will spend sleepless nights and endless days unseen fulfilling your role, who do your best to be the best image of God our Father for us.
“Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the [children].” (1 John 3:16)
It was extremely special to see the children’s faces as we surprised them with beanies, scarves, and other warm items, as well as a snack pack and Scripture booklet! Lily (almost 4 years old) came with us to help bring the Love of Jesus to her fellow little ones! Happy Youth Day!
A few days ago, three friends arrived at our mission gate, completely stunning us with a massive surprise… a Toyota Quantum panel van!!! We were speechless, and although we eventually broke out into joyful thanks and praise, we are honestly still amazed to silence each time we look on it. It is a reliable, low mileage van, even still with a service plan – with so much outreach potential for many years to come!
What an absolute miracle and answer to many, many prayers! We are so very humbled and grateful. Thank you Jesus and an enormous thanks to these generous and kindhearted friends who are used by the Lord to further His Kingdom! Onward Christian Soldiers!
Shoes@Schools was a wonderful success, with 60 athletes from two schools receiving new shoes and a youth-focused “From Jesus with Love” book. The top achiever at the one school stood up and thanked us, expressing how often when they would compete with other “better off” schools, they would wish they had shoes like them… and now they did! What a touch of the Lord’s Love!
The children of Helping Hand were the main part of this Nurses Appreciation focus, as they joined in to go from clinic to clinic (6 clinics in total!), giving smiles, hugs, and treats to these faithful caretakers, who labour long and often unthanked hours all the year. At one clinic, (the same one they were all born at!) they were able to do a show with songs, Scripture quoting, and words of love and thankfulness. It was a great success and blessing, with many of the nurses moved to tears, and encouraged to keep on going. A lot went into packing, printing, and preparing the treat and card packs, and we are so very glad to see how thankfully they were received by all the nurses.
