We are back in Swaziland after a blessed and refreshing trip to the States. It was good to spend time with friends, visit a few churches, shop, eat good food, be loved on and be prayed on. Thank you for all the hospitality we received, for all the blessings, prayers and love. God has used you to bless us in many awesome ways.
Just before we left Swaziland we made banners for the sponsoring churches with the children’s hand prints on it. We were privilege to give this in person to 3 of the sponsoring churches. One of our highlights of this trip was being presented the key to the city of Alabaster, Alabama. Wow, what an honor this was to us!
But now we are back and the work needs to continue. It is the end of the year and we are planning Christmas and birthday parties for the care points. This year we will not do one big party (TOO MUCH chaos and a lot of the little ones had to stay home), but in stead we will do 3 slightly smaller parties over the course of the next 3 or 4 Saturdays). We are really excited about this and we now the kids are too. We are giving each child a back pack and candy as a gift. Please pray for us as we are doing this!
But with a big undertaking like this (Christmas for about 1500 kids) funds are limited and we are running short of funds. We need your help to make Christmas real this year for these 1500 children of Swaziland. So if anyone can make a contribution, we would greatly appreciate it. We have received some funds from some awesome friends, but we are trusting God for the rest.
If you want to make an online donation, you can click on Support Me! (on the left of this page). There will be a block where you put in the name of the staff member you want to give the gift to; Jumbo’s name is in there currently. Please delete his name and type in Swazi Orphan Fund. Please forward your receipt to us at [email protected].
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You can mail a check to AIM. Make the check out to AIM and just add a sticky note saying that it is for the Swazi Orphan Fund. Please shoot us an email at [email protected] telling us about this after you’ve dropped the check in the mail.
AIM’s new mailing address for donations:
Adventures In Missions, Inc.
P.O. Box 534470
Atlanta, GA 30353-4470
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For our South African friends, email me for banking details at [email protected]
So sad I am not there to bake cupcakes and sheet cakes again this year 🙁 But it was awesome to see you guys here in GA. Have a wonderful holiday! May you be blessed by the parties as well.
Hi Kriek & Mathuys,
Glad you safe on “home soil” again. Home is where the Lord has placed us according to His plan. My goodness, looking at the pictures, I can imagine it could have been chaos. (Maybe to you, but the Lord made His creation out of chaos!!)
It was great to meet Maruis & Jodi in Kuruman. Blessings to you all. Dirj & Jen
Hi!
Ons vertrou saam dat die geldjies sal inkom. Kinders is mos die vader se hart. Sterkte met die dinge. Mag elke saterdag se byeenkoms voel asof die Here kom kuier het. Blessings. Kom kuier. Baie om oor te gesels. Groete Ons 4
missing you already!
So blessed to see all the wonderful smiling faces in the photos. Thank you for taking the time to post them and give so many wonderful details.
Give my love to the D-Team!
Elysa