Builds Itself Up in Love

We are back home in South Africa now. Before we left Zambia we had the great opportunity to facilitate and participate in two gatherings of Africa leaders and international volunteers. 

Maranatha Celebrations 

A part of Hands at Work’s holistic model of care in vulnerable communities across Africa is ensuring that our Care Workers are supported in their own personal growth and care. Our Care Workers are the men and women from local churches who have taken responsibility for the most broken, abused and neglected children in their communities. However, our Care Workers were once these children. They often have inner wounds just as deep as the children they are caring for. Through Maranatha Workshops, Hands at Work is extending to our Care Workers an understanding of the love and healing that can only come from Jesus. Now that each of our communities has participated in a Maranatha Workshop we gathered together to prayerful seek God’s will in the way forward. Our Lord Jesus came to show us the way forward in caring for our Care Workers, and the most vulnerable children across Africa. It was a privilege to stand side by side with some of the most humbling and inspiring men and women. It is in these times that I am so amazed and honored that God has chosen me for this calling.   -- M 

Bookkeeper Workshop
Our African Leaders who serve as Bookkeepers have come together in Zambia. Usually separated across five of the eight African countries we serve in, this week was a time to learn from each other and be together and united in their calling to serve the most vulnerable. We come together with our bookkeepers from all across Africa to share our hearts for the most vulnerable. We took time to fellowship with each other, have times of worship and hear our Father’s heart for the children of Africa, as well as have times of training. We read in Ephesians 4:16, ‘From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.’ It was a special time of growth for all of our bookkeepers, not only in their roles but also in their understanding of our calling.  -- T 

The Bookkeepers spending time in the community.

Some team building activities during Maranatha Celebrations

Serving communion during Maranatha Celebrations