Thanks to the generous donations of a few Two Tunics supporters we now have a vehicle to use for support of our community partnerships in the Ugu District. This has been an huge need of the ministry since late last year when Mike & Robin returned to the US and their vehicle was no longer available. Our Community for Kids program now provides nutritional support for about 1000 needy children.

Two Tunics staff Onnie and Debbie make deliveries of fortified porridge to our many supported projects in 5 communities every month. A special thank you goes out to those who have made it possible for us to continue to bless others with this much needed support.

Onnie (center) with Two Tunics vehicle makes deliveries to Sinothando Creche staff

We were blessed to have the South Africa Missions Team from Grace Church in St Louis visit with some of our partner projects in March of this year. This amazing team overcame incredible adversity in completing their mission to South Africa. After being stuck one night in Minneapolis and another night in Atlanta they arrived in South Africa 2 days late and without their luggage. They persevered and still had an amazing week of ministry including spending one of their precious days in South Africa with Two Tunics.

Grace Church Team members with pastor Amos ministering to a poor family outside their shack

Grace Church has partnered with us in supporting Sunnyside Creche in Murchison. They had a great morning at the creche loving on the children (the parachute was a big hit) and making plans together for further improvements to the facility. Then Pastor Amos took the team on several home based care visits. The team got a close up look at the impact of poverty and AIDS on a few of the thousands of affected families in the area. I believe God did a work in hearts of many on the team during those few hours. The team had a powerful time of worship and prayer with each family.

Grace Church Team with kids at Sunnyside Creche

Finally, the afternoon ended with a visit to Pastor Dumisani's feeding project in Gamalakhe township, which included the distribution of shoes to needy children. As always the singing of the children blessed us all. Hearts were stretched, challenged, full and overflowing at the end of the amazing day.

 

     Two Tunics provides support to people in HIV affected communities through partnerships with local community based projects in those communities. One of our first community partners was the Khandandlovu Baptist Church in the southern part of the Ugu District.   Pastor Eric Jila and his wife Bonisile have been our partners since early 2008.

Kids at Khandandlovu Creche with the church on the left and the new classroom building on the right

Two Tunics support includes:

• Teacher training through the organization TREE
• School equipment and supplies including a large jungle gym
• New building extension with two classrooms (funded by Project Imagine)
  
• Delivery of fortified porridge for children daily, supplied through our partnership with Food4Africa UK
  
• Home Based Care supplies donated
  

For more information on the Khandandlovu Baptist Church project go to their Partner Page on our Projects Website.