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ASSISTING THE CHURCH ADDRESS UNEMPLOYMENT
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Welcome to our latest update , scroll down to hear more about what is happening.

WELCOME

2018 was a wonderful year of growth for us an organization. We were able to substantially increase the number of churches that we were able to work with throughout the country. 
This was in part due to the addition of Monwabisi to the team who has come alongside us in Cape Town and has helped us to meet new churches who desire practical ways to deal with unemployment.
We were also able to engage christians throughout the country chiefly through Anglicans Ablaze and Justice Conference and saw just how many churches don't have dealing with unemployment as part of their disciple making process.
We will releasing our our full report at the end of the month. 
Please read below on exciting news on recent experiences we have had.

AN ALTAR CALL FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
 
At the end of January, Monwabisi and Ron preached on Work as Worship at Christ Church Kenilworth, Cape Town. Having previously presented the subject at the two morning services, this time it was presented to the evening service.......

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PARTNERSHIPS

 
Our vision is to get materially well resourced churches with low unemployment rates to partner with materially poor but spiritually rich churches. Building those bridges is a time consuming process. We are however seeing encouraging signs in three locations......

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THANKS

In our last newsletter we raised our need to expand our capacity with both personnel time and with the production of manuals for churches. The manuals would be an aid in establishing teams at each church and in the running of workshops.

We are grateful for a number of donations which were received including monthly commitments of R 250 through to a large anonymous gift. Thank you for this, it is a major encouragement and we can now expand the work further. We are keen to produce the manuals and then a set of You Tube videos to go with them.

We are also constantly faced with unemployed people contacting us directly. If we have not yet engaged their church we are able to direct them to existing Worker Readiness programmes of Zanokhanyo (Cape Town) and Siya Sabenza (Eastern Cape). We are sometimes able to assist them with the R 100 course fee and/or a monthly rail ticket to commute to the 3 week course. 

PRAYER FOR THE UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION

A friend recently attended a meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of State looking at Youth Unemployment in Africa. The realisation that such a summit takes place jogs the mind away from our preoccupation with our own high unemployment to consider our neighbouring countries where unemployment varies according to various definitions but ranges from 18% in Botswana to 34% in Namibia. 

When hearing the incessant talk of unemployment and the suffering it causes we should be reminded to turn to prayer. However Eugene Peterson in his book: Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity reminds us that 

“Prayer means that we deal first with God and then with the world. 

Or, that we experience the world first, not as problem to be solved 

but as reality in which God is acting.” (P41).

We thus look at where God is at work in our situation and begin to move as we see the Holy Spirit direct. Are you waiting prayerfully, experiencing the reality in which God is acting?

We are constantly encouraged seeing where God is at work, often through existing initiatives of the church in Africa.

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