St Andrew's Link: August 2025

This morning we had Word and Worship. At the start of the meeting Rachel, Nick and Noah fed back about our two weeks in South Africa.

The hub then prayed for our safe travels home tomorrow and Prags sang a song about never giving up over us. We continued with worship before listening to the word for today’s meeting which was a recorded video by David Newsome about ‘Doubting’ Thomas and how asking questions shows courage not ignorance.

We went to Mafambisa today to do Care Worker appreciation. We helped the Care Workers with the daily cooking and preparing before all gathering in the church.

Before we could start our appreciation day we had to wait for the water delivery. It costs R300 for about a two week supply.

We began with checking on each other and Oliver shared some words of encouragement based on Psalms 3:1-4.

We gave all the Care Workers some cross bracelets and a little goody bag as a thanks for all the amazing work they do for their communities. They loved them thanks for all your donations.

We then began appreciation with the boys washing the Care Workers feet.

We painted all the Care Worker’s and Service Centre’s nails in many different colours. They also had some coke and cookies which quickly disappeared. Afterwards the Care Workers wanted to take a moment to thank us for the day and to explain how much our partnership with Mafambisa means to them.

After this the final touches were being added to the toilet block as children slowly started to arrive. As usual all the Care Workers wanted to get stuck in with helping to paint their Care Point.

Once more children had arrived we did some parachute games with the children and colouring in the shelter. Then it was time to worship and pray with the children before the service centre asked the children if they had any messages they wanted to share with us. After this we got the opportunity to say thank you to the children for being so incredible, resilient and for always putting smiles on our faces. Today for lunch we ate pap, beans and cabbage.

After food it was time for our final dance of the trip. We then wanted to give the children some postcards with the words of shine printed on, along with a little tube of bubbles. We then took a massive group photo with everyone at the Care Point before saying our final goodbyes.