These sweet children from our weekly Sunday School (and other kids from the settlement) got a food parcel with basic foodstuffs and necessities, to try to ease their extreme plight during CoViD-19 Lockdown.* This was a much appreciated event, with the children very glad to see us and spend a little time together after weeks of no Sunday School. We miss them too, and are so grateful to have been able to show a little love and care, to help them make it through.
A children’s home in Khayelitsha – run by three-time CNN “Woman of the Year” winner Rosie Mashale and greatly battling during this time of CoViD-19 Lockdown – recieved fresh food to help feed the many hungry mouths! (over 150 children, plus those in the frail care centre.) They also make food parcels for desperate families in the local community; we are proud and thankful to be able to assist them!
For this distribution of parcels, we started by washing and sanitizing everyone’s hands, and each adult received a reusable cloth facemask! (handmade by Angela and Amy from our mission-) Each of the 133 parcels distributed contained an assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables, plus meat, rice, sauce, bread, stock cubes, energy bars, tissue paper rolls, and an inspirational Activated magazine.
We packed hundreds of aid parcels, consisting of assorted fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as meat, rice, stock cubes, tomato paste, sauce, energy bars, bread, rolls of tissue paper, and a homemade reusable cloth face mask! (and for the children, added in a yummy treat!)
As soon as the lock-down extension was announced, we received more requests for help than ever! We’ve been busy packing and delivering aid parcels of food and goods essentials to desperate families, as well as making masks for the nurses at a local clinic and others who badly need them. The dear nurses and doctors put their own lives on the line to help so many, and we are proud to assist in their personal health and safety. And certainly, the parcels are received with enormous gratefulness – without them, many of these families would severely struggle to make it through lockdown.
We are continuing our collection and distribution of fresh foods and goods during lockdown – while observing all possible practices for hygiene and social distancing for the protection of ourselves and others. To date since lockdown began we have distributed over 3700kg of fresh food – meat, dairy, fruits, vegetables, and bread, plus staples like rice, flour, sugar, tins, tissue paper, and more! Truly we can see the need now more than ever, and we are grateful to be able to assist hundreds of children and families during this time – through bigger centres and soup kitchens as well as individual family food parcels. The pastor in charge of a large soup kitchen that we bring food to almost every day came to thank us the other day as we unloaded, saying: “There have been times I am almost forced to divide a bread roll between two children, just so everyone can have something. Also, much of our food supplies have stopped due to lockdown, so what you bring keeps us going and gives so, so many their daily food!” Pastor Nanda Thank you to each and every one of you that make this work possible – showing His Love during Lockdown.
(Message from Jesus) Today we celebrate victory, triumph, and overcoming. So think about the good things I have brought your way. Think on the good, the positive. It’s a day to forget any sorrow or pain or discouragement, and to focus on the joyful and the victorious.
Remember the great love I have for you-the love that led Me to give My life for you, and the love that gave Me the power to rise up in new life, also for you.
It is quite amazing that on the day that Jesus was crucified, the Passover lamb was being sacrificed in the Jewish Temple. Sacrificial Passover lambs needed to be “without blemish” (Exodus 12:5). Christians believe that Jesus was without sin, and His death purchased forgiveness of sin and salvation for all who will accept Him as their Saviour. Upon seeing Jesus, John the Baptist said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29 NKJ). And His death was not the end, oh no! It was only the beginning.
