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Heavenly barter!

What do you do to make sure that your teenage girl has lunch at school everyday, if you don’t live with her (can’t pack lunch for her) and giving her money is not a viable option?  This is what you need to do.  Step 1. […]

Precious to Jesus Campaign Audition

I was in Khayelitsha when Helen called me. She said, “Are you going to be late? I have something big for you to see.” We have been working on the “I’m Precious to Jesus” Campaign song without much progress. When Aubrey came to pick up […]

Love Your Enemies

  The people above are the people who are living in a country that was once called the Rape Capital.  These people are considered to have a very lenient approach to child rape.  They understand that gang rape is a common occurrence in the society because it […]

Making a fool as a parent for nothing

I found myself glancing at the clock every 30 seconds when it turned 8pm.  It had been about 3 and a half hours since we dropped off Papama at the first birthday party of one of her classmates and my calls were going straight into […]

Happy 14th birthday Papama!

It was Papama’s 14th birthday.  She is attending Mondeor Eco School (Private school in our area) on a scholarship from my home church in Canada.  During the first two terms, she often came and said, “I hate lunch time, because I don’t have anything to eat.” and “I […]

Children @Ubukubakhe Preschool Doing Phonics

Only after one week of practice, children at Ubukubakhe Preschool in Khayelitsha was proficient in Phonics.  Missionary Jaemin randomly picked out a book and asked them to read it.  To our surprise, they read all the letters with correct phonics.  Undoubtedly, it encouraged us all […]