Each of our Sunday School children received a special Bible Activity book to take home after their weekly lesson!

After many years of faithful service here in Cape Town and surrounds, Michael (Mike) and Angela – with their son Samuel – have moved to England. They have both served here faithfully for a lifetime (combined nearly 40 years!), and have been an integral part of our work and activities. We are so grateful for their love and faithful service for these many, many years, as well as their company and friendship through so many ups and downs.

A heartfelt thank you to both of them for selflessly serving and helping others alongside us – showing Jesus to many! They will continue to be part of our extended family, and will be sorely missed by our whole team here. We wish them God speed and continue to keep them in our prayers in this new season of their lives. Thank you Mike, Ange, and little man Sam! We love you, and God be with you, till we meet again.

Through a series of miracles and open doors, we ended up at this beautiful zero-fee school, which serves hundreds of children from the farming communities towards Malmesbury. The principal and teachers welcomed us gladly, and understood our goal of not only handing out school supplies and lollies, but most importantly, giving a talk with a Salvation message to the whole assembly. Wonderfully, 291 children responded, opening their hearts and lives to Jesus! Then, classroom to classroom we went, giving out the treats and stationary packs, character-building Afrikaans posters, and tracts – as well as chocolates and Activated magazines for the faithful teachers. It was an amazing time!

As soon as “Mama” Rosie – the founder and director of Baphumelele Orphanage in Khayelitsha – heard that we had stationery packs for not SOME, but ALL of the school-aged children she cares for, she began cheering and rejoicing and praising God on the phone! “Just yesterday” she shared, “the school was calling me saying how my children coming from the orphanage don’t have all the notebooks and things they need. And I was thinking oh Lord what must I do? And then YOU CALL!”

How wonderful! 121 dear ones from grade R up received their packs, and we were able to remind them how very Loved by Jesus they are. We were also privileged to have a long-term friend of ours join us at the event, and her loving grandmotherly care impacted out onto all the children in such a special way.

We received an early morning call to come collect multiple huge wooden bins of mealie corn! The young men loaded them all by hand into the van, and then out again at a soup kitchen which serves hundreds of meals daily!!

What a lot of work and a lot of joy; with each pack prepared one closer to the goal, and one more child that would get special gifts to assist in furthering their education!

Some of the ladies of Helping Hand stayed up nearly till midnight, preparing these special Valentine’s gift hampers for women at a crisis centre. We hold a Bible study there weekly, to help encourage and show God’s Love to each and every one, regardless of their background. (Wonderfully, over the years many of the ladies passing through the centre have given their hearts to Jesus, and their lives have been changed for the better!) This time, the special focus was the Love of Jesus, and how He will always be there for us, no matter if others abandon or disregard us. And all the women loved it!

We sent a box FULL of Bibles, Activated magazines, tracts, and much more material to a couple who are good friends and former Bible students of ours; now living and minstering near Mosselbaai. They use these materials to disciple those they have led to salvation, or are mentoring and encouraging.

We are all so inspired to see the fruit borne as others are taught to teach others, and show the Love of Jesus where they are. (2 Timothy 2:2) That’s the way the Light spreads into hearts and lives all over!