Things kick off early here so we started at 8am with ‘Hands on Deck’, a team meeting for the Hands staff. People came from all over the place to share about what is happening in their area.
George the leader of Hands@work started off with reminding the team of a conference they had held 3 years ago. Our Pastors Mark & Tim had been @ that conference. George said that half way through the conference a darkness had descended and some people had even gone home they felt so afraid. As the delegates had met together the following morning they had all agreed that more must be done. Out of this was born the vision to reach 100,000 orphaned or vulnerable children in Southern Africa by the end of 2010.
Hands@work also more recently had a vision of houses on fire. If a house is on fire you don’t sit and discuss what to do or have lots of meetings discussing the price of fire services etc. You run in!!!! You run and rescue whoever is inside the house. George told us that they feel God is telling them that it is NOT acceptable that children should be in these circumstances so Hands@work will not say it’s caring for a child unless it’s providing access to 3 of its basic areas: food, education and basic health care.
We then heard from a guy called Lyn. He showed us the start of a video which is on Hands website (http://www.handsatwork.org/the-church-together/). In the first clip is a lady called Gertrude. She is sitting in a shack, very thin and says she is sick but needs to look after her kids. She is weeping. Lyn went on to tell us that Gertrude had died that week leaving 2 kids behind. He was really emotional as was his wife, and other workers in the room. We got a glimpse of how close they get to the people they are working with.
It was a really useful morning for us to find out what is going on in Hands@work. A team were just about to go off to Zimbabwe to work and they were all helping them move out there.
We did some random singing and dancing throughout the morning which was very funny. Our favourite went:
Sometimes in the sunshine, sometimes in the shadow,
all along the way, walking every day,
sometimes, in the sunshine, sometimes in the shadow,
walking with Jesus my way.
We are walking with Jesus, walking everyday, all along the way
We are walking with Jesus, walking with Jesus my way.
This song included actions and much walking!!!
George the leader of Hands@work started off with reminding the team of a conference they had held 3 years ago. Our Pastors Mark & Tim had been @ that conference. George said that half way through the conference a darkness had descended and some people had even gone home they felt so afraid. As the delegates had met together the following morning they had all agreed that more must be done. Out of this was born the vision to reach 100,000 orphaned or vulnerable children in Southern Africa by the end of 2010.Hands@work also more recently had a vision of houses on fire. If a house is on fire you don’t sit and discuss what to do or have lots of meetings discussing the price of fire services etc. You run in!!!! You run and rescue whoever is inside the house. George told us that they feel God is telling them that it is NOT acceptable that children should be in these circumstances so Hands@work will not say it’s caring for a child unless it’s providing access to 3 of its basic areas: food, education and basic health care.
We then heard from a guy called Lyn. He showed us the start of a video which is on Hands website (http://www.handsatwork.org/the-church-together/). In the first clip is a lady called Gertrude. She is sitting in a shack, very thin and says she is sick but needs to look after her kids. She is weeping. Lyn went on to tell us that Gertrude had died that week leaving 2 kids behind. He was really emotional as was his wife, and other workers in the room. We got a glimpse of how close they get to the people they are working with.
It was a really useful morning for us to find out what is going on in Hands@work. A team were just about to go off to Zimbabwe to work and they were all helping them move out there.
We did some random singing and dancing throughout the morning which was very funny. Our favourite went:
Sometimes in the sunshine, sometimes in the shadow,
all along the way, walking every day,
sometimes, in the sunshine, sometimes in the shadow,
walking with Jesus my way.
We are walking with Jesus, walking everyday, all along the way
We are walking with Jesus, walking with Jesus my way.
This song included actions and much walking!!!
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