P2P - Gauteng - Sept 2010 - Tue 21st and Wed 22nd

Tuesday 21st

After our meditation session at Aphiwe Leona took the Pratt's and Jennifer for a tour of all the crèches we are involved with. Liezl and Sue did the usual Tuesday Bible classes for the kids at Zelda and Kalina's crèche. sister Lilandi also joined us for the day! Sisters Donna-May and Julie presented a cooking class and the men continued with maintenance and upgrade work at Mph, Grace and Mavis' crèches, Lunch time was short but well appreciated by everyone. 

The lunch time Bible class presented by Bro. Hendri and Bro. Ray was attended by 8 students and quite a few questions from the students were dealt with. Sister Sue was very brave and had her hair braided. The result looked great and we have a new sister sue who is becoming well loved and respected by the community here. Liezl and Bro. Andrew helped at the KIOSK while the others did more work at the crèches. 

The team returned to Kempton Park quite tired but had enough energy left to sew some graduation gowns (the sisters) for the little ones in the crèches for their up and coming end of year functions. Then it was off to go and help with the Tuesday afternoon feeding scheme at Festival Mall. From there it was straight back to Aphiwe for supper and then the night time Bible class that was led by brother Adrian. We had 16 students attending and they enjoyed the topic that centered around what a person must do to enter into the Kingdom of God. After dropping quite a few of the students off at their homes three vehicles returned to Kempton Park at 9:30pm - The team was bushed but before bed time discussions centered around what an awesome blessed day we had from God.

  

Wednesday 22nd

Midweek and the team is grateful to be blessed with good health and renewed energy. The sisters made their way to Pretoria for a sisters class at the home of sister Karen Scheepers. The class was led by sister Sue. The men arrived at Anne's house for a morning of intense maintenance and repairs. Lots of work was done for a lady that have been very involved and supportive of the work that the COP Trust has been doing over the past three years. Anne is a spinster and always thinks of others (and especially the COP trust) before herself. It is because of Anne that we have had various people donate blankets, mugs, food, clothing to us at different times. It was only with gladness that we showed her a little kindness. We managed to repair quite a few things for her, prune some trees, remove a lot of rubbish, paint some doors. She was absolutely delighted and astounded by our kindness and stated that she has never seen or experienced any other church doing such a thing.

Half of the men team made their way to Tembisa after lunch. By this time Leona and the sisters visited a manufacturer of Jungle Gyms to order a Jungle Gym for Yolande's home of safety. Steve presented a Maths class at Aphiwe. Lucas, Adrian and Ray collected food parcels at Aphiwe and went to a primary school nearby who had arranged for very poor and needy children and their parents to come and collect the food parcels. We were very impressed by the teacher who organized the distribution at the school. It was also very emotional when some of the parents broke into tears when they received their food parcels. Liezl had in the meantime taken some of the sisters to help sister Lilandi move some stuff to her new home.

In the late afternoon the team all made their way back to Kempton Park where all of us started painting the jungle gym equipment that was sanded down and welded previously. The equipment started looking brand new!  At 5:30pm the team went back to Aphiwe and held a song and praise evening. 15 people turned up and lots of fun followed with singing and praise. The team returned to KMP at 8:30pm for a very late supper!

We all marveled at how fast a day can go by if you are significantly busy and having fun - and also at how much more energy we all had for each day through God and Jesus who strengthens us and leaves us energized by the reaction of love, appreciation and praise for God that we get from the people in Tembisa.

Tomorrow will be special day as we eagerly anticipate the joy of the children at Yoland'e place when the jungle gym will be delivered , God willing.

With heaps of love in Jesus

P2P Team - KMP

P2P Sept 2010 - Gauteng - Sat 18th, Sun 19th, Mon 20th

Saturday 18th

The weekend was no let up for the team and we managed to cover most of the items on our program. On Saturday morning the team split into two groups. One group organized and facilitated the street fun event in the Esselen Park section of Tembisa. It was great fun as over 40 children turned up to enjoy games, face painting and singing in one of the streets in Esselen Park. The second group held a Bible Study morning at the Aphiwe community center. Sisters Leona and Julie baby sat the orphans from Yolande's home of safety so that Yolande and her husband could attend the Bible class. After lunch the team re-united and set off for an afternoon excursion to the Lion and Rhino park. It was a super time as lot of animals were seen and they got to play with lion cubs. The tour of the wonder cave was also interesting and fun.

Sunday 19th

Sunday morning started off with the team helping with the Sunday School at the Aphiwe community center. Over 40 children attended and the Eggintons and Russels led the classes. Our meeting at Kempton Park followed and the hall was quite packed with all the visitors. Bro. Andrew Russels exhortation was very edifying. After the meeting the team drove over to Centurion for lunch at Bro. Mickey Scheepers house. We then attended the Pretoria satellite meeting and were joined by the members of the Pretoria Central meeting. On our return to Kempton Park we met Bro. Ray and Sister Dana Pratt and sister Jennifer from the USA who had arrived from Chicago to join our team for the week ahead.   

Monday 20th

It was time to reward the team with a special treat for all their hard work - a day trip to the Pilansberg Nature reserve. After a travel prayer three cars set off at 5:30 am for a two hour drive to the Pilansberg. We arrived safely at 7:30 and then had a fantastic day in the Pilansberg. There was great fellowship and discussions in the cars while we drove around in the park and enjoyed God's wonderful creation. The highlight of the day was seeing a herd of elephants swimming and thoroughly having a ball in a dam. We were back in KMP at 9pm ready to get some good rest for the busy week that lie ahead and mindful of how amazingly good God has been to us all the past week. 

KMP P2P Team

P2P - Sept 2010 - Gauteng Friday 17th

We have become very dependent on our 10 minute meditations as it gets us off to a spiritual start each morning and makes us realize how close we need to stay to God to allow him to work through us.

The Friday crèche course was very lively and the ladies attending really appreciated the overseas presenters as well as all the activities they did during the 2 hours that just flew by for all of them. Further finishing touches were also done at Yolande's  place and a third group continued the work at Grace's place where a mural was painted on the wall.

After lunch sister Julie gave a "Cross stitch" class, some of the group continued with repairs on some second hand jungle gyms that were donated to us and others finished the work at Grace's place.

A supper and movie night for the KINOS kids followed at Aphiwe. We enjoyed having supper with them and then some very spontaneous singing followed that nearly lifted the roof! The kids thoroughly enjoyed the movie. It is rewarding to see them enjoying some activities that have never been part of their life before.  

With loads of fun loving energy from the KMP P2P team

We have become very dependent on our 10 minute meditations as it gets us off to a spiritual start each morning and makes us realize how close we need to stay to God to allow him to work through us.

The Friday crèche course was very lively and the ladies attending really appreciated the overseas presenters as well as all the activities they did during the 2 hours that just flew by for all of them. Further finishing touches were also done at Yolande's  place and a third group continued the work at Grace's place where a mural was painted on the wall.

After lunch sister Julie gave a "Cross stitch" class, some of the group continued with repairs on some second hand jungle gyms that were donated to us and others finished the work at Grace's place.

A supper and movie night for the KINOS kids followed at Aphiwe. We enjoyed having supper with them and then some very spontaneous singing followed that nearly lifted the roof! The kids thoroughly enjoyed the movie. It is rewarding to see them enjoying some activities that have never been part of their life before.  

With loads of fun loving energy from the KMP P2P team