Category Archives: General news
United Youth!
One of the main groups who were behind much of the chaos during the xenophobic crisis were the youth. During the mediation sessions it was agreed that the youth infrastructure in the communities were very weak and it was therefore difficult to engage with them.
The community turned to the pastors for a solution. They in [...]
Football Fever
With the Africa Cup of Nations taking place during January & February, there is plenty of football fever around. Sadly South Africa (Bafana Bafana) didn’t make it past the qualifying group stages. Who knows, maybe one of these youngsters maybe a rising star!
And another baby!
Sizeka lived with us for 4 months at the end of 2007. On 22nd December she gave birth to a little baby girl, Amahle Rebecca. They are all doing well. Sizeka has started back at school. Amahle is therefore in a creche all day. It’s not easy for them. Please pray.
A New Baby for Lungi
One of our friends in Nomzamo has had her new baby. Hannah and I went down for a visit and a cuddle!
Very sad news for Thandi
Thandi arrives at work today. Her eyes are red and swollen from crying.
She moves slowly, burdened by the grief, but she’d rather be here than moping at home she says.
Lungiswa died yesterday. She was Thandi’s 18 year old niece who’s mother died seven years ago of an undisclosed illness. Lungiswa and her brother Sipho have [...]
Choices
Lyn really enjoys her time at choices each week. It is such a priviledge to talk to these ladies and to pray for them. Many have enormous burdens of severe poverty and are often in difficult circumstances not helped by their crisis pregnancy. Many choose abortion but there are a number that do keep their [...]
Parenting Skills
At one of the Community Leadership Imbizo’s we arranged last year we were asked to investigate the possibility of running a parenting skills course. We managed to track one down that had recently been translated into Xhosa and were able to train an initial group of ten mothers who we hope will develop into course [...]
Amazing news!
Amazing news – we are still in the same house!! It’s been wonderful being in the same house for over 8 months. This was our 4th house in just over 2 years – it was such a pain to have to keep moving. We hope we can stay here for a good while.
We would LOVE [...]
PLEASE PRAY
PLEASE PRAY for our lovely sister in-law Rita and her husband Mark (Lyn’s brother). Rita has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and is also expecting a baby later this year. They were all due to come to visit us in July – which had to be cancelled. Instead we managed to fly back for [...]
Choices
Having completed her 3 month training course with Choices earlier this year Lyn has been busy counselling each week. There are large amounts of unwanted pregnancies, many as a result of rape. Choices provides the mothers with a range of options and supports them throughout their pregnancy and afterwards. Over the past 10 years Choices [...]
