by Resurrection Staff | Oct 23, 2015 | South Africa, South Africa Agriculture, South Africa Churches, South Africa Education, South Africa Partners
This morning, we visited a site on the edge of Ditshego that is undeveloped. The school and Westview Methodist are trying to raise funds to purchase and develop the land. Currently, the land has two homes and several outbuildings. This site would be utilized for...
by Resurrection Staff | Oct 22, 2015 | South Africa, South Africa Agriculture, South Africa Churches, South Africa Education, South Africa Partners
Our day started with a meeting with African leaders and bishops of the Methodist Church. We met Bishop Zipho D Siwa, Rev. Dr. Kenaleone Ketshabile (shortened to KK), Bishop Themba Mntanbo and Bongin Kosi (Praise the Lord). They described the 11 countries they...
by Resurrection Staff | Oct 21, 2015 | South Africa
A travel day as we got up early and loaded the van to go to the Durban airport and fly to Johannesburg. We then drove to Disthego (House of Laughter)School, in the informal settlement of Mooiplaas outside of Pretoria. Ditshego School administrator Isabel Net told us...
by Resurrection Staff | Oct 20, 2015 | South Africa
At breakfast, we met up with our partner team from Russia – Edward, Tatiana, Alexander, Andrei and Irine. Our day started with a visit to the John Wesley School that educates children aged 2 to 12 (Daycare through 6th grade). The John Wesley School has more...
by Resurrection Staff | Oct 19, 2015 | South Africa
Our journey stumbled out of the gate; rather, at the gate at Kansas City International Airport. Upon arrival at the airport, our team of Barbara (team leader), Bob and Jan discovered that the flight had an announced delay of four hours due to mechanical problems. We...
by Resurrection Staff | Aug 4, 2015 | South Africa
On Saturday, July 25th, four USA team members attended the Community Team Preparation Training and Commissioning at Church of the Resurrection to learn more about their upcoming trip to Mooiplaas, South Africa during October 16-27, 2015, and the six partners,...
