Some Pictures

Sewing Classes and other things

In the picture above: Nontobeko Shabango, Nokwethu Lokotfwalco, Sphcsihle Bhembe, Thembi Mncina, and the teacher Dudu Mbetse. These are the young ladies that we are teaching sewing to. They have begun to make projects now, one of which are placemats for them to sell to some of our incoming teams. These girls are really energetic and wanting to learn new things. Pray that we will be able to teach them to sew and then they will have a way to make money once they are too old to come to the CarePoints. We currently have one electric sewing machine and a couple of hand crank ones. For some of you who don’t know what that is…..you have to crank the handle for each stitch you make..it is really tiring and hard to guide the material with only one hand. Some of the profits made from the sales of items they make will go back into replenishing the material and thread to be able to make more projects. Pray for this ministry to the teens.
Yesterday we had a serve day at our CarePoint. It was the last day of school for the children for 3 weeks, but the CarePoints will stay open each day to do the daily feeding. The two teachers and two cooks traded places for the day and we were there to help with the cooking. Pray for our cooks and teachers. The teachers are paid a little but the cooks do this daily as volunteers. It really takes a lot of work to prepare the food. There are 2 large black kettles set into a concrete structure and you build a fire under them and they cook for several hours. The menu yesterday was sugar beans ( almost like pinto beans) and mealie (which looks like cream potatoes but has the consistency of grits). Donald built the fires under the pots and I served the mealie and pintos to each child. We ate with the children and I have to say the Pinto’s were absolutely delicious..although I am not big on the mealie. We had a good day playing with the children. Donald had one child that stayed on his back like riding a horse for quite a long time. I am posting some of the pictures of the children from yesterday. Please keep them in your prayers also..they are so precious. For several months the lower part of the property at our CarePoint has been under construction from the city. They finally finished and filled in the holes so now we were able to plant a garden, everyone chipped in..we planted onions, spinach, beets and lettuce. This will be good to add to the beans and mealie once they are ready.
I have posted a picture of Donald in his official Birthday hat that Children’s cup makes you wear when you are in the office all day ( the guy with him is K.B. who works with the cooks discipleship)..sorry to say the children did not sing to him this year but everyone got a real kick out of the hat..

This month we have started 40 days of prayer. Please remember to pray for these children, their health, their spiritual wellbeing and the ministry that Children’s Cup provides to them each and every day.
Please check out this link.. http://fortydays.childrenscup.org/
God Bless each of you…Love in Christ, Don & Diane

Just a little peek at our week

This month we have started 40 days of prayer. Please remember to pray for these children, their health, their spiritual wellbeing and the ministry that Children’s Cup provides to them each and every day.
Please check out this link.. http://fortydays.childrenscup.org/
Last week we gave a party to the teenagers that danced at the conference that was held in May, I know, it has been a couple of months but they enjoyed it anyway. They are beginning to be asked to dance at various churches in Swaziland. They are very good. We had cake, cheesy poofs and juice. All in all I think they enjoyed it. We also gave them a gift of the green (for the girls) and black and white (for the boys) hoodies. I think they really liked them.
We visited a CarePoint being newly built. We have a Mission of Mercy team coming in a week and a half for which Donald and I will be the missionary host. They will be painting a mural on the inside / outside of this building. Hopefully it will be ready for the children to use… the food is being prepared under the trees at the entrance and the children eat under the trees.
4th picture: Healing Place Church held the first ever HIV/ AIDS testing for anyone in our congregation that would like to know what their status is without going to a “clinic” in the area.. The ones in the picture are Pastor Ben and wife Susan. All in all there were 87 people tested and only 10 were positive. This is great, now they know their status they can start medication which will help with the effects. I will let Donald blog about this..he knows more about it than I do.
All in all…I know God is working here..as the first pictues states ***
Jesus is here..and anything can happen!!!
Thank you all for helping us to fulfill God’s plan for our lives.
We love you all and thank you from the bottom of our hearts. May God Bless each one of you..
Donald & Diane