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Project Report 2012
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  News Letter March, 2012 
 

Dear friends and family,

God bless you all! As some of you may have heard we were busy relocating our mission center this month and are currently still unpacking and settling into our new location. We’ve received so much support from our friends during this busy time and just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for the tremendous help you have been to us, in volunteering, donating support, and physically helping us to pack and move our mission center. It’s in times like this when we realize just how blessed we really are! This month we organized a clothes and shoes distribution in Thembisa in an early Easter celebration accompanied with a special Easter church service. We received an amazing positive response from the families we ministered to and we are so thankful we were able to celebrate this time with them.  

Thank you so much for all the support and prayers you given us; we look forward to updating you again next month! If you would like to receive more information or join us on one of our projects please feel free to contact us.

Projects hosted and events organized in the month of March;

·         Hosted 2 early learning classes and lunch distributions at Siphiwe Creche in the Diepsloot Township.

·         Hosted 3 soup kitchen distributions in Randburg, Johannesburg. 

·         Hosted 5 Bible studies at our mission center in Northcliff.

·         Organized 7 hospital visitations.

·         Donated 16 boxes of food to Marang House (Marang House is a home that provides care for children who suffer from life-threatening diseases, providing them with stable home environment, medical care, and nutritious meals.)

 

·         Donated 19 boxes of food to needy families in the Thembisa Township.

·         Distributed 10 bags of clothes, and 3 boxes of shoes to needy families at the Easter church service in the Thembisa Township. 

·         Donated 6 boxes of food to needy families in Randburg. 

·         Isaac preached in the Thembisa Township for the Easter Church Service. 

Families in Thembisa at our clothes distribution; 10 large bags of clothes and 3 boxes of shoes were given out.

Jesus, James, Isaac, and Carole at Helen Joseph Hospital beaming after experiencing an amazing miracle filled visitation in the wards, with many people healed and lives changed through encountering Jesus.

Isaac praying for a man with a gunshot wound in his leg. When the prayer was over the man asked what Isaac was using when he prayed because he felt the pain go away and something happening in his leg, so Isaac told him that it was all Jesus.

Thea the latest addition to our team, reviewing picture vocabulary words with the children of Siphiwe Creche in the Diepsloot Township.

News Letter February, 2012 

Dear friends and family,

Another month has flown by and we like to take the opportunity to present you with a quick review of our activities and projects from the month of February, 2012. We were a bit short staffed this month with one of our full time volunteers attending a sponsored healing school, so we were very thankful to have received the help of a part time volunteer from Croatia, her involvement was a big help to us this month. We also had a new volunteer fly in from Australia a few days ago to help us with our projects for the next 3 months, and we look forward to incorporating her into our projects.  

Thank you so much for all the support and prayers you given us; we look forward to updating you again next month! If you would like to receive more information or join us on one of our projects please feel free to contact us.

Projects hosted and events organized in the month of February;

·         Hosted 3 early learning classes and lunch distributions at Siphiwe creche in the Diepsloot Township.

·         Hosted 2 soup kitchen distributions in Randburg, Johannesburg.

·         Hosted 3 Bible studies at our mission center in Northcliff.

·         Organized 2 hospital visitations

·         Donated 15 boxes of food to Marang House. Donated goods consisted of children porridge, Juice, instant soups, tin goods, fresh fruit, vegetables, and meat. (Marang House is a home that provides care for children who suffer from life-threatening diseases, providing them with stable home environment, medical care, and nutritious meals.)

·         Donated 10 boxes of food to Siphiwe creche in the Diepsloot Township. Donated goods consisted of baby porridge, cookies, lunch snacks, Juice, fresh fruit, vegetables, and meat, 2 boxes of toys, and a set of school books and crayons. 

·         Isaac Bleich attended a sponsored healing school training program for 3 weeks in America. 

A young mother & her baby enjoying some of our pap and beef stew.

Soup kitchen food distributions in Randburg.

Julie our full time volunteer reviewing vocabulary words with some of the older children at Siphiwe Creche.

Jesus with Marang House staff member, delivering donated food from Steve's Spar, Randburg.

The children at Siphiwe Creche enjoying a yummy lunch of roast chicken and rice.

Reanna a Volunteer from Croatia joined us on all 3 of our Early Learning Classes and cooked 2 of the lunches for the children. Thank you for helping us!

 

 

News Letter January, 2012 

Dear friends and family,

Happy New Year, I hope that all is well and that you enjoyed some well deserved time off during the holidays. With this news letter I would like to up date you on the projects that we hosted in the month of January. We hope you enjoy these up dates on our projects, if you would like to receive more information or join us on one of our projects please feel free to contact us. God Bless you all!

Projects hosted in the month of January;

·         Hosted a early learning class and lunch distribution at Siphiwe creche in the Diepsloot Township

·         Help to host a beginning of the year assembly at Paradise Bend Primary School 

·         Hosted a soup kitchen distribution at Scout hall next to Berario community center. 

·         Hosted a Bible study at our mission center in Northcliff. 

 Assistant teacher from Siphiwe creche (left) at and Norma (right) who is visiting from Australia helping to prepare lunch for the children

  Benny, Chris and Ali (visiting from Australia), with Alisa and Naomi our translator. Teaching Bible stories, basic vocabulary, and reading at Siphiwe creche.

  Alisa working on pre-writing school pages with the children at Siphiwe creche. 

  Chris, Tina, Simon, and Isaac leading the children at Paradise Bend Primary School in fun praise action songs.  

Almost all the children from the school attended and everyone was trying their best to see the program and join in.

            Chris practicing some local handshakes with the students after the program for the first time since arriving in South Africa for a 3 weeks visit from Australia.

Project Report 2011

Feeding Schemes

Soup kitchen Randburg

We have organized 16 food distributions since August 2011, our portable soup kitchen reaches many underprivileged families in the surrounding areas of Randburg and often bases out of a kitchen in Scout Hall Windsor.  Our meals include delicious meat and vegetable stew, bread, rice and pap. Along with the meal our volunteers offer counselling and a much needed word of encouragement.

Thembisa Project

In Thembisa Township we have set up a supervised kitchen through a kind and humble local pastor who cares for street children and disadvantaged mothers. The need in this township is very great and we would like to open our doors to many more needy children. We also organized a fun end of the year Christmas party for the children in the Thembisa Creche, the party included Christmas gifts, goody packets, games, face painting, balloons and clowns.  

In 2011 we donated more than 240 crates of food, 24 boxes of linen, 26 boxes of clothes, 9 boxes of toys, 2 boxes of cleaning supplies and toiletries, 50 Kgs of Mealie meal, and 92 boxes of bread to this project.

HIV Aids Education

Seotloana Primary School

In April 2011 we organized a HIV Aids Education program at Seotloana Primary School. Our team helped develop an educational HIV/Aids show which is geared at educating primary students via Dramas, music and a multimedia presentation. This show focuses on the dangers and prevention of HIV infection and has been extremely successful at reaching our target of educating and breaking down the stigma attached to the HIV/Aids pandemic. The program an hour long is centred on dramas, puppets, music and a multimedia presentation. We also hosted work shop for the school in the form of an essay competition and a prize giving ceremony conducted by our volunteers and judged by the school’s teachers. Prizes for this event where donated by a local Jet store.

Creche Early learning and feeding program

Siphiwe creche

In Gauteng we have adopted one of the children’s schools in the Diepsloot Township where we have been teaching the children the Bible and basic vocabulary and reading and writing skills. We have involved companies and individuals to help this school with materials, such as educational Christian DVDs, general school supplies, clothing and food. In 2011 we hosted 10 early learning classes and 5 cooked lunches for the children at Siphiwe creche, donated 10 crates of food, and 50 blankets. We also organized a fun an end of the year Christmas party with Christmas gifts, goody packets, games, face painting, and clowns.  

Bible Training 

Living a Healthy Life Seminar

During Easter 2011 we were able to assist with a program in Thembisa focusing on the topic of living a healthy life both physically and spiritually. It was a very upbeat and enjoyable program with guest speakers, lots of singing, and a free meal for everyone attending. Alisa Bleich was one of the guest speakers and she spoke on the importance of caring for your body and practical ways to have a healthy lifestyle in our society today.  

Northcliff Mission center Bible Studies

We hosted and conducted a weekly Bible study at our residential mission center, with the vision of helping our students to find ways to practically apply the Bible to their daily lives and encouraging them to find ways to become more active Christians. We have also involved our students in our local projects at the Diepsloot Creche and soup kitchen in Randburg.  

Mission Trips

Malawi Mission trip

In June 2011 we visited and preached in 11 churches praying for the sick and giving encouragement as we went, all the churches we visited were rural except for one in Lilongwe and one in Kasungu. “Excerpt of trip log by Isaac Bleich;....God did an amazing miracle to provide us with a 7 seater vehicle to use for the duration of our visit free of charge Mr. Edwin Banda generously offered the use of his vehicle and even to collect me from the airport!, this was in fact a direct answer to prayer as I had been praying for a vehicle to use allowing us to fly into Malawi thus saving time and money for shorter trips. We took Bibles and Gospels along for distribution, and as always the demand was greater than the supply.”

Zimbabwe Mission trip

In February 2011 we took 30 sponsored STEPS programs (Christian Character and Faith Building Curriculum for children) to Primary Schools in Zimbabwe. All the public schools are very poor and are lacking access to quality teaching materials. The country has been through a period of great upheaval over the past 10 years, and at times the educational system as a whole was virtually shut down due to lack of funds and other reasons. The teachers were very inspired when they received the curriculums and said that this was just what they needed. We encouraged those who had access to e-mail, (3 of them) to send us little reports about the use of the books and the reactions of the children as they use them over the next few months.

The Sunday school teachers we met were excited about the STEPS sets and said that the material will be well used in all their programs. A few mentioned that the stories are also very good for the adults.

The children in Harare speak English quite well and in the rural areas the stories will be read in English and then translated into the local language.

Hospital Ministry

Steve Biko Academic Hospital

In December 2011 on Christmas day we visited Steve Biko Hospital bring with us gifts and balloons for all the children admitted over Christmas.  The nurses and staff on duty were so supportive and helped our Christmas clowns pass out gifts and sing Christmas carols.  It was also a wonderful opportunity for us to offer a word of encouragement and prayer to the parents in the wards.

Johannesburg General Hospital

Family Missionary Services had done 10 hospital visits since June 2011 at Johannesburg General Hospital, in coordination with Philani Care Foundation. We have donated 20 boxes of food, 2 boxes of clothing, and 2 boxes of toys. We offer spiritual counseling, support, and prayer to the under privileged patients and children admitted in the wards. The primary focus of Philani Care Foundation is to help HIV+ patients. The donated goods are also used to help underprivileged hospital patients who come from other parts of the country and do not have the support of families and friends locally.