At the end of May 2019 we delivered two 125cc motorbikes to the pastors that finished Hefsiba at the end of 2018. They were very excited and thankful. Thank you to Missions office in the Western Cape for the donation. All is well at Chandame. We are planning to establish a youth club at each of the prayerhouses, where we want to implement the principals of Farming God’s Way. Wilhelm Els is going to assist us with this project and we do believe that the youth will be very receptive to this The crops of the 30 farmers to whom we supplied beans and fertilizer, is ready for harvesting. We are planning to create a Co-Op model, and therefor we are buying the beans back from them. The 3600 coffee trees on the farm is growing well. We are almost finished with the 70m channel that was dug by hand. This is where we are going to install the water wheel. Our highlight of June and July 2019 was the visit of the Shofar Outreach Team of Durbanville and George. This group of young people engaged with so much ease to everything here on Chandame. The woman were tought to make themselves circle skirts (all the needlework here is done by hand). There was a special ladies day, and the day ended with a pedicure treat to all the woman. House to house visits were done, they visitited the school and we had an Evangelist weekend. After that weekend, the […]

After spending precious time in SA with our children, grandchildren, family and friends, we arrived back on Chandami on the 10th of March 2019. Aside from being very wet, and very green here, everything was well maintained here, and everybody was very glad to see us. The road to the farm was eroded after the heavy rains. One measurement that was taken, was 500mm of rain in only three days. After very hard work of scraping the roads, and packing rocks in the river, we could now get to the farm again. The drive to the farm now takes about 40 minutes. After Jannie went to the farm on 22 May, we can report that the coffee trees are growing well. The workers on the farm now also have clean water for drinking and cooking, as we have made a water filter for them. We sold beans to 30 farmers in the area, and the idea is to buy the beans from them after they harvested their crop. Currently their land looks good after the good rainfall. The clinic is also in full operation again. The amount of patients vary between 30 and 60 per day, and we had a lot of patients with burn wounds lately. Maria, the pastors wife, is the one that helps me with the burn wounds. Just today there were two burn wound patients – one was a little 6 year old boy who stepped into the fire with both feet, and the other was […]