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Beacon of Hope News
 February 2009
Greetings!
Greetings! Here it is already 2009 and pretty soon we will need to start getting solid commitments from those who are planning to take part in on of our summer mission trips.  We have three trips planned for 2009.  There are the two that are listed on the website to South Africa in June and in August.  The third trip is going to be to Katale Kenya.  We don't have exact dates in place yet but it is likely to be in August.  As soon as I have more precise information I will get it up on the web site.  The Kenya trip is being led by Curtis and Rhonda Brownell who are Beacon of Hope Board Members and have been to South Africa with us twice.  They will be working with Sister Freda at a clinic and also working with Pastor Moses and Margaret training teams to present the Smart Choices AIDS education program.

I will be calling everyone in the next few weeks that has ever expressed an interest in coming with us because I need to have reasonably firm head count to start making airline reservations.  If any of you reading this are thinking about coming with us in 2009 you would help me by going to the website and filling out a trip interest form and plan on getting your trip deposit to me by February 27.

God's richest blessing,
Glynn's Signature
 
Living Stones Orphanage Security
Fence Photo
The security fence around Clements property (The Living Stones Orphanage) is complete.This project was partially paid for by Beacon of Hope and partially by Calvary Baptist Church in Richards Bay.  Pastor Kyle Farran from Illinois is currently studying Zulu at the University of Zululand and he put together a work party from Calvary Baptist to help Clement get the fence up.  See some pictures of the work party on Kyle's website.  Workday at the Orphanage digging holes for the fence.

Training of Expansion Teams
Kids Dancing On the weekend of December 12-14, 2008 Pastor Clement took his team to Greytown to train what he thought was going to be a team of 15 people.  Twenty-seven people showed up for the training.  We are waiting expectantly to here how their first training session at the schools goes when the school year starts.

Clement has also had another request from a church in the town of Melmoth about 50 miles west of Richards Bay to do a training session to coach another group of instructors.
South African Schools Begin the New Year
Kenny & Comfort South African Schools started the 2009 school year in the middle of January.  Our teams have started to engage the principals and Life Orientation teachers to start the 2009 Smart Choices program.  There will be a more complete report on how thw year is getting started in the next newsletter.
Prison Ministry
Prison While the schools have been on vacation Pastor Kenny has been talking to prison officials about getting in to the local prison to do the Smart Choices AIDS program with the prison inmates.  Hopefully this will lead to a new dimension of our program that will allow Kenny's team to keep busy in the periods when they can't get into the schools.
 
Meet Zodwa & the Soshanguve team
Lebo Video Story
In the last three months we have introduced you to our three team leaders from the three cities surrounding Richards Bay and this month we want you to meet the team from Sohanguve.  Zodwa Ntuli is one of the first two Campus Crusade missionaries that has been working with us since 2004.
You can read a brief biography about Zodwa on our website.  In 2008 Zodwa brought nine members of their church congregation down from Sohanguve to Richards Bay to be trained and to work with us for the two-week program at the schools.  They also ran a two-week long tent evangelism ministry in parallel with our program so they were busy little bees doing our program by day and the tent evangelism by night.  All of Zodwa's team members are in their twenties and are passionate students and followers of Jesus.  We were particularly touched one of he team whom we call Lebo, her full name is Lebogang Moloi.  Susan wrote a piece about Lebo and her faith in the August newsletter but I want to tell you the story about Lebo's vision.  
 
In This Issue

Living Stones Orphanage Security
Training of Expansion Teams
South African Schools Begin
Prison Ministry
Meet Zodwa & the Soshanguve Team
Supporting Orphans
Supporting Orphans in South Africa
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HIV shock in SA schools
A shocking statistic showing that 15-year-old teenagers in South African account for 34% of all new HIV infections, the debate whether to distribute condoms in schools has again flared up.
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Why HIV is Still Winning
In one sense, the fight against HIV sounds painfully simple: just get people to stop having unprotected sex.
Making this happen, though, is proving extremely complicated. From prostitution in informal settlements, to misleading statements by our leaders, and the dangerous consequences of men having multiple wives and lovers, the factors driving the sexual transmission of HIV are many and varied.
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