by Sphiwo

My vision is to change the lives of the Teenagers of Esikhawini, Richards Bay, Kwa Zulu-Natal and South Africa because we all see that the teenagers are suffering from being made the slaves of Alcohol, Drugs and Sex. Now that I am saved, I thought to myself, "what about my friends? What about the people that I used to chill with and smoke with?"

I have been introduced to a program that I think will help me in this mission. Drawn from the Beatitudes, Celebrate Recovery helps people resolve painful problems in the context of the church as a whole. Rather than setting up an isolated recovery community, it helps participants and their churches come together and discover new levels of care, acceptance, trust, and grace.

It is a program for Implementing a Christ-Centered Recovery Ministry in Your Church Alcoholism - Divorce - Sexual Abuse - Codependency - Domestic Violence - Drug Addiction - Sexual Addiction - Food Addiction - Gambling Addiction and many more! There is a way the church can help the hurting move beyond their wounds to experience the healing and forgiveness of Christ.

Clement and Thuli Masondo are the leaders of the area surrounding the city of Empangeni, which we refer to as the western area.  If Derrick is Mr. Personality then Clement is Mr. GetTheJobDone.  He is just amazing how many different things he takes on.  He is the full time pastor of his church "Living Stone Covenant Church."  He has also just built three orphan cottages that house a total of twenty-four children.  Each home has a housemother and eight kids.  Clement is also the area coordinator for an organization called Judea Harvest that distributes tents that are used for tent revival outreaches.  He coordinates the distribution of these tents even though he does not have any transport to move them.  Besides all this he is also our western area coordinator and has been the most active in keeping the program going year round between our annual trips.