What We Need / Background

The ministry of Thembisa depends on volunteers coming to the ministry with the ability to finance their own work projects. In order for each of us to actually make this trip a reality, we each have to raise at least $4,000. We love the fact that we will be able spend the money raised where we feel it is needed the most. Apart from this cost, we will also need to buy our plane tickets and we will have to pay for housing and food to the family we will be staying with.

In our latest e-mail from Andrew and Rae, they informed us that there is a great need for housing for the people in the Embo Valley area. The ministry is experimenting with ways to construct houses using sandbags, and they say that this is a great opportunity for us to get involved with when we arrive. Help is also needed with building the village that is being constructed at Hope Farm, and help is always needed tending to the crops on the farm. Hope Farm is the name of the compound that we will be living in. It is a place that, grows food for the family of missionaries that lives there, and for the neighborhood. It will soon be home to a number of families in the "village". These families will be taught skills such as farming to help them provide for themselves. Hope Farm also hosts bible studies, provides clothes and food for the neighborhood, and provides after school activities for children. Whatever money we raise will go to help all aspects of this ministry.

There are obviously a lot of opportunities for us to get involved, and we are excited to follow God's call wherever he leads.
If you feel called to sponsor us, you can contact us at our e-mails in the previous post.

While we are in South Africa this summer, we will update this blog regularly with what we are doing, and how God is working in South Africa.


In Christ,
Andrew and Ben