Bounty Newsletter 3

Greetings! Here is some more news!

When I return home in November, it is my goal to visit friends, spend time with my family, and share the vision with interested persons. I hope to spend some quality time with my Terry High School, My Father’s House Church, and Christ Chapel families.

I plan at least one trip to the Midwest to visit and tour an exemplary arts school which I heard about last year. I have viewed the campus on-line, but I want to see it up-close to get building ideas.

      Upon return to Africa, I will likely spend the first two weeks in Angola visiting with the YWAM Musai base talking about plans for eventually building schools that the Angolan government is willing to support.

Soon after my return from Angola to South Africa, I will begin touring regional YWAM bases sharing the vision for the Aiven Park girls’ school.

    The Lord is in the process of assembling key people to do the work that is necessary for the school’s existence including architect teachers, administrators, and visionaries. I have an invitation to meet political party leaders.  In addition, as I meet people who can serve on the board, I come one important step closer to attaining NGO status and possible access to funding.

I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Lizette, an Afrikaner famer who donates organic produce to the soup kitchens which Jan helps to supply. Jan Buchanan is already actively involved in the neighborhood where she has graciously agreed to allow the school to be built on her land. On the same day, I visited the soup kitchens and nurseries where she partners with several colored women. I shared with them the vision and visited   the girls to whom I ministered in the fall. 

    This God-birthed school is built on service including valuing the environment (a community swap shop allows children to exchange trash for needed items such as toiletries and clothes); it celebrates the arts, teaches resiliency and self-respect. For instance, all school families and interested community members will take ownership of the school’s garden. This eco-horticulture will provide healthy produce for the kids and clear the disease-carrying sewage that presently runs through the streets. We will begin our pilot phase for the school with afternoon a diploma equivalency program and tutoring.

There are two concrete ways that you can help: gather educational materials and ship them- through the “M Project” or be a part of Change to Change the World. Want to know more? E-mail me. The future is looking bright, and I am so glad that you are a part of it! MJD

 

Jan and Ursula who runs one of the soup kitchens.

Soup Kitchen that serves children several meals a week.

The land where the school will one day stand.