Christmas in Beaufort West

This is the only photo that I could salvage of the Christmas party at Helping Hands. My camera got wet. The photo is of Jerry giving stoney a birthday cake for her 59th birthday. It rained all day but the children turned out inspite of the weather. They had so much fun playing, hearing the Christmas Story, eating a good lunch. They loved their gifts and party pack. All the team left a bit of their heart behind. These beautiful children will steal anyone's heart. Thank you NRCC for brightening the Lives of these children. NRCC have been part of seeing 800 plates of food going out Monday to Friday to those who cannot feed or support themselves. On their behalf thank you, thank you. May Jesus bless you in abundance.

The Olive trees are doing well and now is the test to see if they pass a harsh summer and maurading goats who sneek in from time to time.

The veg garden is doing well and helping to support an Aids support group and a project working with youth at risk.

NRCC has also supplies coffee, tea, sugar and milk to a project that runs a coffee bar for all and they do a wonderful work with the street children suppling, food, clothes and coffee to the kids and anyone you just needs a friend to talk to.

Now and then NRCC has helped out Grace Ministries with sanitary towels and 50 girls have had their lives changed.

Thank you again for all your, support, prayers and love on behalf of my family and my self we would like to wish you and blessed Christmas and may Jesus bless you all in abundance in 2013

OliveTrees Update

The olive trees survived one of the harshest winters Beaufort West has experienced in a very long time. We planted 180 tree's and so far plus minus 160 trees survived. A few were eaten by some passing goats. The reason the goats got in because the gates were stolen. St Francis can't wait for you guys to come here to do the dedication of the olive tree's. The vegetable garden has come along in leaps and bounds and they are now supplying 10% of their needs. We helped a group of young people open a youth centre and they want to make there own veggie garden

Leadership Development

We have run 3 leadership development seminars in Beaufort West. 2 were on the qualifications, duties and responsibilities of elders and deacon's. All the churches were invited but only a few took the opportunity to attend. The few churches who sent their leaders really enjoyed the seminar. We had 30 people attend. The next seminar was on Love the Lord your God with all your heart, spirit, mind and soul. Again it was advertised all over but 29 people attended. I have decided that I need to get a place of my own to hold the courses and seminars because all the churches are afraid of sheep stealing. I need ideas to over come this.
We also ran a missions seminar in Hout Bay, Cape Town and we brought down 3 guys from Beaufort West to attend the 4 day seminar, thanks to NRCC. The guys really learnt a lot and left on fire. We want to put a major evangelical outreach together for July next year.

Trash Dump

The trash dump remains a cause for concern with more and more people living on the dump and bringing their children and babes along. The last team bought blankets and food for the adults. They also brought shoes and clothes for the children. NRCC continually supply medicines for the people on the dump. It is very hard to bring the good news to the people on the dump. Every time I come here I cry. The last time I was there a guy came up to me and said don't cry they are alright. This made me even sadder. Please pray for Jesus solution.

Helping Hands

The children are doing very well and a team from Germany built on another room which has helped tremendously. We have just had a team there from California who played with the children and bought new clothes for a few of the kids. Now that they eat regularly, they are really feisty but you have to love them. They worm themselves into every ones heart. A local nurse sponsored new cups for the kids. Its a privilege to come here and tell them Biblical stories, play games with them and pray for them. When the kids see the car pull up outside the house, they come running to help carry the food in. Stoney can never say thank you enough to NRCC and she says she can't wait to meet you all and show you around and give you all a big hug. On a sad note that makes me angry, the gangs are still breaking in to steal food.

 

Olive Trees

We started to dig the holes needed for the olive trees. The ground is pure rock and it took the entire day to dig 2 holes and the entire weekend to dig 5 wholes.

This will take months to dig all the holes we will need. So with donations from the team we hired a grader and within 2 weeks all the holes were dug. We are now ahead of schedule, praise Jesus. We will start planting the olive trees in mid April, thank you to everyone who has taken part, whether donating, praying, encouraging, motervating, we thank you for being part of our lives and we praise Jesus for you. By Gods grace, I hope to see all of you in 2 weeks.

First Evangelical Outreach in Beaufort West

We showed the movie Courageous to a packed church hall. The response was amazing. Russ Danser from West Cobb preached the message and a number of people can forward when the alter call was issued. The Pastor and church elders from Christian Centre did the counselling and they were very encouraged and are looking forward to more events like this. It was great to use the church members to talk to the new converts because they are the ones that must do the follow up. We also used this opportunity to hand out beanies and shoes. God is so awesome.