Mangwaneni Carepoint (Easter Offering Update)
The following is a report from the Mangwaneni Carepoint in Eswatini that the Soul Sanctuary community sponsors. Our Easter offering from 2022 covered a years worth of support for the carepoint.
We are happy to report that things are in a way settling down at the care point and that we are trying to get back into a more normal routine coming out of COVID.
Our Carepoint Coordinator, who is currently visiting us once a week, has been able to start with Sisekelo Setfu [a systematic three year curriculum, built on Luke 10:27: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and Love your neighbour as yourself] lessons again. It is so good to see how the kids are engaging and discovering truths about God. They were very surprised by the lesson teaching about God, the Creator, as their Friend. We have also been able to start another Ngesikhathi [name of the program] grief counselling group with 8 of the kids. After the challenges of the last 2 years we feel like Ngesikhatsi is now even more applicable than previous years and we are so grateful that we can help our kids work through their emotions in a healthy way. It doesn’t seem like any of our kids lost close family members or friends to COVID, and for this we are very thankful. But we are also aware of the fact that our kids experienced a lot of uncertainty over the last 2 years.
We would love to have a Carepoint Shepherd back at the carepoint. There is definitely a big need for someone being there daily to disciple and hang out with the children. We want to ask if you will pray with us for God to open the doors so that this can happen.
We are also excited about 3 new volunteer cooks who joined our team as well as a groundsman who is helping to keep the yard clean and safe and cut firewood. On weekends we now also have a new volunteer who cooks and disciples the children. We are proud to have some of our children take initiative and take more responsibility and helping the cooks. Our preschoolers are also doing well. There are 40 of them divided into 2 classrooms with a teacher for each class. It is always a joy to watch them learn and recite what they have learned.
Saneliso Tsambe, a boy who is attending our carepoint and is always active and involved, passed his examination with flying colours and obtained a merit. We are so proud of him and we hope that he will inspire the other kids to also work hard in school.
Please continue to remember the Mangwaneni Carepoint in your prayers.