So far in 2018 we have distributed an average of 240kg per day of fresh food. This food goes to many centres – hospices, drug rehabs, orphanages, soup kitchens, quadriplegic homes, and care homes for the elderly. When possible, we also make food parcels for individual families and homes.
Helping Hand members and young volunteers got involved in our Youth Project for June; sorting through hundreds of single shoes in order to make pairs! After many hours and days of work, they were able to match up over a thousand pairs! For Youth Day, and our Youth Focus for the month, we distributed these shoes to a large orphanage and youth-center in Khayelitsha, outreaches in three other townships, and many individual families. What started out as many large boxes of mismatched shoes, with the help of our young volunteers, turned into a blessing for over a thousand people.
Our team is in Grahamstown now; and starting to do outreach at the 11-day Grahamstown Arts Festival! Here you see them with Bibles, Gospel tracts, and inspirational Activated magazines. Please join us in prayer for safety as they walk all over town, good weather and health, souls saved, lives changed, and many reached with the Love of Jesus! Thank you! “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth…”(Romans 1:16) “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.”(Mark 16:15)
A father is a plain-clothes superhero; the epitome of strength and solutions. He may seemingly have no special powers, but somehow he always saves the day. -C.M A happy and blessed Fathers Day!
This single mother wrote us requesting help for her family – saying that sometimes the children didn’t even have food for school lunch. We were able to help them with a large parcel of foodstuffs, accompanied by the message of Jesus – the “Why” we help. They were all very grateful!
In accomplishing our May focus of mass food distribution, we brought fresh fruit to preschool/primary school children, and assisted Baphumelele centre in Khayelitsha with meat, cooking oil, and other staples. We also stocked up two quadriplegic homes with foodstuffs, and helped a small local feeding scheme care for needy families. The happy smiles and exclamations of joy by the children – not to mention sweet conversation with them and the adults – warmed our hearts and reminded us how each one does has the potential to change the world!
One of our focuses for May is mass food distribution. To this end, we distributed food parcels to hundreds of families in several informal settlements – giving them both physical aid and a mental boost of encouragement; simply knowing that Someone does care about them.
(At the invitation of a farmer in Ladismith, Chris and Mike went out, witnessing all the way. Here’s their feedback from the trip.) We left Wednesday morning, and drove up to Worcester, visiting and ministering to a few friends and people we’d met on previous occasions. Then, we headed to Ceres. We met with a local pastor and his team, to discuss a project they had just started, and give them much-needed encouragement. After this, we had a little extra time before our next appointment, so we prayed and decided to just witness on the streets. Not even an hour of witnessing later, we had had some good conversations, prayed for a couple people, and ran into a young community leader who, just minutes earlier, had expressed a desire to his friend to meet some missionaries and learn to serve God better. And there we were! We’re staying in touch with him. We stayed the night in Ceres with a good friend and his family, having a wonderful time fellowshipping and discussing God’s Word – as well are just enjoying each other’s company. The next morning, he took us to his office to speak and pray with one of his employees who was facing some major challenges. We did, and had a inspired time together, emboldening him to just keep trusting God and doing what he can, day by day. Now, on through Robertson, and then Ashton. In a farm outside Ashton, we met a lovely woman (who, together with her husband, Mike has been following up on for several years) and updated each other on what God was doing in our lives. In the process, we told her of a soup kitchen we are trying to start up next to a community library. She suddenly exclaimed “oh, I have Read the full article…
