Visiting the poor!

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kindom of heaven. Blessed are they that morn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteusness,

for they shall be fill.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God!"

Matthew chapter 5

Taking food to the underprivileged families... A wonderful way to spread God's love at christmas!

Christmas Thoughts

Sharing kindness at Christmas is good practice for the way we should be all the rest of the year.

Why not have a birthday party for Me this year? Sing "Happy Birthday to Jesus," make a cake, blow out the candles, and tell Me how much you love Me. After all, it's My birthday!—Jesus

Take a lesson from God in gift giving: His gift didn't show us how powerful He was, how rich He was, or what good taste He had. His gift simply showed us that He loved us more than anything else in the world, and that He was willing to do whatever it took to make our lives wonderful.

No matter what or who you think you are, you always have something to give Me at Christmas. Even the ass had an important contribution on the day of My birth—carrying My mother and Me to Bethlehem.—Jesus

Christmas is a state of mind. It's happiness, gratitude, love, rejoicing, giving, playing, thanking, sacrificing, and remembering. Do those things and you'll never have a hard time "feeling like Christmas."

Singing at St.Mark's Anglican School

We sang for their end of year party. The children were a wonderful audience and enjoyed the songs and skit a lot!

Here the children are singing along with us"
"Come into my heart, Lord Jesus!"

The teachers and staff pose for a photo

Rock Concert!!!

• Wood Stock Rock festival in Johannesburg!

This is our Children's Christmas Singing group. We have been practising for weeks now and we're almost ready to start. If you know of someplace special that needs some Christmas cheer, please let us know. We'd be happy to visit!

From left to right: Samantha (age 6) Alex (age 4)

Stuart (age 8) James (age 4) and Natasha (age 6)

Our school project in Zambia

Our volunteers helping with the construction work!




These are some of the pictures from our last trip to Zambia, with the children from the Flying Angels school in Lusaka.
We have been helping to build here since 1999. It is primarily a school for under privileged children and is growing quickly. When we first started this project there were 20 children attending. Since then the school has taught 500 children, almost half of them orphans, who don’t pay school fees.


Pastor Sakala who runs the school started off with a plot of land and a great desire to help educate these poor children. With the help of our volunteers we built the 1st and 2nd class rooms & toilets in 2000, and 3 more rooms in 2001. Every few months we travel up to Zambia to add to the project and take supplies.





Here is the latest classroom just finished being bult!

Some of our volunteers doing a AIDS awarness program for the children of the school.





Here we have, in the back Andres, Christian & in the front Danny & Pastor Sakala.

Christian, one of the pioneers of this project and the current manager of this project, is organizing the next trip for January2007. Please pray for this, as the 4x4 vehicle that usually does the trip was hijacked last month right in our driveway! The Lord is going to have to do a miracle to supply another one for this trip.

Notable quote:
Troubles like a washing machine, twist us and knock us around, but in the end we come out brighter and better than before

• Life in Zambia!
  

These sweet children despite their poverty and dificulties always have lovely smiles for us. This is more than enough reward for our efforts!