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https://notforgottensa.com Releasing Purpose, Awakening Dreams Tue, 01 Mar 2016 22:08:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 The Golden Door of Freedom https://notforgottensa.com/the-golden-door-of-freedom/ https://notforgottensa.com/the-golden-door-of-freedom/#respond Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:37:25 +0000 http://notforgottensa.com/?p=852

Exciting things are happening here in South Africa! Just last week we received news that we are now officially registered as a Non-Profit Trust in South Africa. This has been a long process that has taken over 9 months. We are so thankful for God’s faithfulness in bringing us to this point! Now, we can really run with the mission God has given us to care for the orphaned and vulnerable children of South Africa.

Our mission is comprised of a three-fold strategy: Education, Discipleship, and Development

This month we would like to update you on our first strategy: Education

We firmly believe that by providing a quality Christian education, we will provide greater opportunities later in life that will help propel the children out of poverty. Education is also one of the best ways to jump start the process of transformation in a community.

what we doOver this past year, Mimi and I have been managing a preschool in the township. Mimi has been working tirelessly to hire and train teachers to provide quality care to the children attending the preschool. At the end of last year we had about 40 kids attending the preschool. Due to lack of quality teachers this number of kids was overwhelming for our teachers. In January, Mimi implemented a new strategy and reduced the number of students to 20. This also allows us to be very intentional with our investment in the children and their parents.

IMG_3559At the preschool we have created a “fun” learning environment, where dreams are encouraged and learning is “playing.” The children learn through songs, cooking lessons, Bible stories, and field trips to a local farm to learn about animals and agriculture.

Thanks for your prayers! We are able to provide two highly nutritious meals and a snack a day . This is very important, cause most kids in this community only eat once a day. For most of them, the nutrition they receive from the preschool boost their immune system and keeps them healthy.

We are excited to be able to provide jobs to 4 mothers: 3 Teachers and 1 Cook. Each week Mimi
has discipleship meetings with each individual teachers and teach them how to dream. So, through your support you are not only providing jobs to mothers, but also discipling them to follow Jesus! You are actively:

Releasing Purpose, Awakening Dreams!

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What do you do when you see your disciple get it? I can only imagine what Jesus was feeling when he saw his disciples understand the Word, and transform their life to the fullest… to see them get it!! That’s what we’ve experienced for the last 3 months. Mimi has been discipling Dorah for almost 2 years and we have seen her eyes open and really trust Jesus with her life. Talk about life changing for her and for Mimi! Mimi has learned and been transformed as much as she has through this journey together… so this is the journey they’ve been on:

Dorah has been in an abusive marriage and is currently in the process of getting a divorce, getting out of debt, being trained for Early Childhood Education on the weekends, and working full time at a local preschool. About 6 months ago, Dorah’s eye were opened. Jesus became real in her life and it was an exciting day. Mimi had been meeting with her and encouraging her that God has not forgotten about her, that He loves her.

DSC_7570In January 2015, Dorah tithed for the first time, gave a tenth of her gross income and she tithed with a cheerful heart!! After 6 months of faithful tithing, she has decided to tithe 15% of her earnings rather than 10%. To us, these might sound like small accomplishments, but in the Townships, it’s unheard of.

Since then, God has blessed her beyond her dreams. She’s learned how to dream because recently she wrote a business plan to better her community. Our heart is full as we watch her cling to God and really trust Him with her whole life. The veil over Dorah’s eyes have been removed and now she has an understanding as to how to help others in her community.

Eric and I have decided to really focus on discipleship… go slow and go small. We normally have 60-90 children at our weekly outreach, but we are determined to see transformation in their lives. We’ve decided in July, to only take 20 children that have been faithful in coming to our outreach and really invest in them and their family. We will also start a bible study/church in the Townships on Sunday mornings due to high demand. It’s been really exciting to see the Youth of Ikageng dream about what they want to do in the future.

We are excited, because the active vision for Not Forgotten is: Releasing Purpose, Awakening Dreams! Slowly, we can see that eyes are being opened and people in Ikageng are starting to dream.

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Mimi and I are excited to announce that we have officially launched Not Forgotten’s first sustainable job creation project, Red Thread!Since September of 2014, Mimi and I have been managing a preschool in the Township of Ikageng. We have been busy implementing the strategy that God has given us by educating the children in the preschool and focusing on discipleship through a weekly outreach. During this time, it became very
clear that for us to see true transformation in the lives of the children we had to have some influence in their homes.

Our goal is to teach sewing skills to parents from the preschool that we manage. After an initial training period, our desire is to create quality South African products and sell them locally and internationally.

By investing in the lives of these parents and teaching them a practical skill, we are empowering them and providing an opportunity to better care for their children.

IMG_4349 Another exciting aspect of this project is that local South Africans are getting behind us and want to partner with us to make a difference in their community. A real good friend of ours, Minette Bell, has volunteered to manage the day-to-day training of Red Thread. Minette is a local business woman in Potchefstroom and a former runner for South Africa’s National Team. She can also sew exceptionally well!Currently, we are training two mothers, Daphne and Mieta, on a weekly basis. They meet three times a week and they start off each day with prayer and a bible study. Minette has been teaching them the basics of sewing, they started out learning about the machine they would be working with, sewing lines on paper, and learning needle work. In the past couple of months, Daphne and Mieta have progressed very quickly. They even made their first bag a couple of weeks ago. They were both so excited!

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This past month for Easter, we hosted a movie night for the children in Ikageng ext. 7. We showed the Voice of the Martyr’s animated Jesus film, Jesus: He Lived Among Us. We printed out movie tickets, permission slips, and had snacks for the children. The childrenwere required to bring a signed permission slip, which allowed us to know how many were attending. For most of the children, it was the first time to watch a movie, so we had the signed permission slips in minutes. The response was overwhelming. When the movie started we had 200 plus kids crammed inside a small aluminum siding building with standing adults in the back. In fact, we had at least 50 plus standing for the entire movie due to lack of space. For most of the kids it was the first time they had seen a movie about Jesus. You could hear the oooh’s and the aaahhh’s as Jesus was being crucified. To explain the movie we shared a short Gospel presentation and a large percentage of kids responded to the call to accept Jesus as their Savior. We’ve had amazing favor and response from the community.

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Let me explain. Mimi was ministering in Ikageng at a preschool that we serve on a weekly basis when she noticed a little girl with ringworm on her face. With her experience working with kids beforeMimi reached out to the mother and began educating her on how to take care of the ringworm. Then she noticed that the lady had a son who was covered in dark sores all over his body. The boy was unresponsive and seemed very sick. Mimi asked some doctor friends about the sores, and they said it sounded like Staph infection and suggested he get immediate medical attention. Mimi explained this to the mother and made a plan to take little Christopher to the hospital.

At first, the hospital did not want to admit him, but after much persuasion on Mimi’s part they finally admitted him. The doctors looked at him and confirmed that he had Staph infection, but also said that he was on the last stages of malnutrition. They said if the mother would have waited any longer to bring him to the hospital that he would have died!

Today Christopher is healthy, happy, and very responsive. We are so thankful that God led Mimi to be in the right place at the right time and worked through Mimi to help save little Christopher’s life. We check up on Christopher regularly and Mimi is currently working on developing a food basket system that we can provide for families in Ikageng.

Please pray for Christopher and his family. Pray for their health, that his parents can find a stable income, and that more doors would be opened for this family to fully embrace Jesus who can not only save their lives but also their souls!

Thank you for all of your faithful prayers and financial support! You are the real heroes that made it possible to save a life.

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