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Beacon of Hope trip itinerary
Week 1 August 2-9.
Work with the three teams in the Richards Bay area as we have done in the past. (Team leaders Derrick, Clement, and Kenny)
Week 2 August 10-13.
Work with a new team trained by Clement in December, in the farming village of Greytown. (The leader of this team is Pastor Jubulani Zombe)
Fundraiser August 14-17.
Fundraiser for Campus Crusade Crossroad ministery sponsored by The Collection, A chain of Five Star hotel restaurants in the Western Cape province. John Tempelhoff's son Peter is the Master Chef of this enterprise and was responsable for securing the venue for us and also for being actively involved in coordinating activities, sponsors, advertizing and so on.
Week 3 August 18-21. Work with Zodwa and her teams in Sohanguve.
Trip Fund Raising Status
Our budget goal to cover basic trip expenses for airfares, ground transport, accomodation, meals is $12800. We are currently at $10336.50. Naturally any ammount we have in excess of budget enables us to bless our African teem partners and orphans and school students to a greater degree. A very sincere heartfealt thank you to all that hav contributed to the trip so far. |
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Summary of Progress in Richards Bay
 Clement's Team:
They have already taught more than 1800 students this year the joint Richards Bay student count is about 2400. Clement's teams have been commissioned by one school district to teach the smart choices program to all the students in 25 schools. The school district wants him to complete all of these schools by December. This is an impossible task but that is what motivates Clement, impossible tasks.
 Kenny's Team:
They have taught about 500 students and is still negotiating with prison officials to start the Smart Choices program in the Empangeni Prison. Kenny has teamed up with a church in his city that has a non profit tax status to enable to do local fundraising. A new exciting development for Kenny is that he has been invited to attend a convocation of pastors hosted by the Holy Life Pentecostal Church in New York at the end of July. Please pray for him that he will be able to get the necessary US Visa and raise the funds to cover his airfare.
Derrick's team:
They have taught about 170 students directly but the Outlook church team working with Derrick in the Richards Bay area have trained another team form the Richards Bay Baptist church. The Baptist team lead by Pastor Duncan Miller started a new direction of training in the city schools. Our emphasis so far in Richards Bay has been on the rural schools. Derrick has recruited a new team member who is collage educated, has some computer experience and in addition to school teaching she will also help him run the Campus Crusade office. I am hoping that with Dumile's help I will be able to keep better records of the teams activity. |
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Summary of Progress in Sohanguve
 Zodwa's team: They have held two group training sessions since the last update to train new churches who have undertaken to adopt a school and present the Smart Choice program to all students in the school. See the link to Sohanguve April Report. |
