kidz club

last week was school holiday here in south africa and as with every holiday there are literally hundreds of kids wondering round doing nothing, our local church, elgin united, also work in the community via their siphla sonke care team and as part of their work they host a kids club in the informal settlement church, imizamo united.....as usual bethesda kidz running the programme for them....(i know that this is a little complicated but please bear with me!)....and me and the rest of the village of hope team (daz, arron and jess, along with two dutch and one norwegian volunteer) ran the club.

man it was busy, we had over 100 children at each club, which we ran on monday, wednesday and friday between 10am and 1pm, we sang songs, listened to outside speakers talk about health, safety and the environment, played games and made paper mache piggy banks....yea that was messy.

it was a privilege to get along side some of the poorest and most needy children in our community, really engage with them, encourage them and try to put a some positive in pact into their little lives.

tim speaks at local church with bethesda kidz in support...

yesterday we had the pleasure of being invited to share at the corpus christi church in grabouw, this was an opportunity for tim to bring the word, it was the first time that he had spoken in an african chruch and thankfully he didn't have to share the message in afrikaans, and for the bethesda kidz to lead the worship...it was a great morning where we met a lot of the local supporters of the kids work and for them to see how we are working with these wonderful disadvantaged children in grabouw through our schools and sports outreach.

the 30 kids really performed well, bring dance and actions to the songs we sing at the thursday afternoon bible club, we place no expectations of these kids, many of whom come from the squatter camps around grabouw, but it was amazing and quite moving to see the passion each child has to do their best for God, so as a treat we all went to kfc for ice creams after church!