But I apologize to anyone who might actually happen to read this blog, and promise that I won’t do it again.
I’m going to be doing a couple catch-up posts whenever I can get to internet, to catch you up on the most important things going on right now, using both my own words, and the much more knowledgeable words of updates already sent home to Canada. This first post will be about our starting up ministry, Let’s Give Them Hope.
I already posted about it back when we were still in Uganda, but I’ll just give a brief explanation on what we’re hoping to do, and an update on our progress.
The ministry will be focused on working with children who are the poorest of the poor- namely the orphans, the single parented children, and the ones from child headed households.
We will be starting with once or twice a week feeding programs, which will bring together a list- made by the village chiefs- of the neediest children in the area, for an afternoon of games, connecting, and a hot meal. Eventually we want to build up to have a whole centre, with a nursery, a daycare, an after school homework program, and various fine arts centres.
Our friends here in Zimbabwe have many acres of land in a rural area called Musana, where we are planning to establish this ministry.
This is a quick paragraph from one of my dad’s updates:
“Our primary focus in our own vision has always been the emotional healing of the orphaned/vulnerable children, while simultaneously providing visible care for them in their own communities We see these children being raised up, given a chance to dream, given skills that enhance their self-esteem and that elevate them from thinking they can achieve nothing… to knowing that they are skilled and valuable. Our aim is to give these children a hope, a dream for the future.”
So far, we have been doing a lot of work towards this ministry, and have even had our first two feeding points- which I will write about soon!
We have a bunch of great people working with us, all of them Zimbabwean and bringing great experience and skills to our team(including a carpenter, a South African trained dancer, and a woman who had training and experience in running children's centres and homes for orphans).
We also have been very active in fund-raising for the ministry here in Zimbabwe; lots of proposals and documents have been sent out, and research in various companies who donate towards ministries done.
Very exciting things are happening… stay tuned to read about our very first Musana feeding point!
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