Community and Home Visits

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 We were able to purchase a stock of food for each pastor and household; enough for 5 families from each of the churches with Spirit & Truth Church.  We also visited Pastor Bheki's school, where we were given the opportunity to support some of the students financially in their exams.  We found the food delivered to the home of the elderly and destitute fed a community of family all around them.  This first picture is the traveling nurse who checks on the elderly and supports the youth who are generally the caretakers of their grandmas (gogo).  







Here Dave came up with the idea of sharing our favorite verse on a board that can be included in the building with Pastor Timba, who leads the new church we helped build.




Pastor Bheki was able to purchase more land for a future site of a church.  This will allow the people close by to worship.  Even spaced out with just 2-3 kilometers is hard for people to come together, when they are walking. 






















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