Regional Support Team

In the coming year Hands at work will be starting Regional Support Teams to support service centres in different regions throughout Africa.  We believe this will help us reach out and support the service centres better as more Hands at Work staff are placed closer to the service centres.  The first Regional Support Team will be supporting service centres in DRC, Zambia and Malawi and will be based in the copper belt region of Zambia. 

Please pray for the new Regional Support Team who will be moving to Zambia.  We are very excited about their new role in supporting the work in DRC, Malawi, and  Zambia.  They are a diverse group, with gifts and skills in OVC care, income-generating activities, agriculture, maintenance, empowering communities, carpentry, finance, and hospitality.  But more importantly, we appreciate them for who they are and their obedience to God in this situation.  We thank God for each of them:

Please pray for safe travel for those who are moving to Zambia from South Africa; for good health for all of them, and especially the children; that God will bind them together in unity as a team; and against any attacks of the enemy.

Prayer Requests for Zambia

Luanshya

  • Praise God for our new bookkeeper, Mary, in Luanshya Service Centre.  Pray that Mary will feel comfortable in the office and on the team.
  • Please pray for the upcoming training of Church leaders at Kachele Farm.  That the leaders will understand the Biblical mandate to care for the vulnerable in their communities and take action in response to God’s call.
  • Praise God for Samuel and Juliet Zulu and their family, who have moved to Kachele Farm.  Pray for the maize that is currently being planted, that the project will be successful and support food security for many of God’s most vulnerable children.

Kabwe

  • Praise God for our new administrator Trina in the Service Centre!   Pray that Trina will learn quickly and enjoy her new role.
  • Praise God for a vehicle that was donated by Kangaruh Foundation.
  • Please pray for training for care workers happening now in a few communities, that they will feel encouraged in the work they are doing.

 

Continuing in Prayer

  • George has left for Canada and USA to go and share the vision of Hands at Work and to meet churches and new people who could engage with us in reaching out to the vulnerable. We are trusting God to open the right doors and to open people’s hearts and minds, we believe it’s a calling on all Christians to show compassion to the poor and vulnerable.
  • We have a number of new volunteers who have come to work with us, would you please pray with us as we send them to different communities and African countries where life is not as comfortable, food might not be their usual and the life is very different. We pray they may be strengthened and encouraged to reach out and touch the lives of many children. Please pray also for their health and further more that God can just be their comfort and minister to them as they play this important role of caring and showing love to God’s children.
  • Morgan, one of our family members who works in the Canada office is not feeling well and is undergoing tests, please pray God can heal her and give her much peace.

General Prayers

Zambia (Luanshya):

  • Please pray for Samuel and Juliet Zulu, Hands at Work volunteers from Chipata, Zambia, who have moved on 1 October with their children to Kachele Farm in Luanshya.  Samuel will manage the farm with the aim of improving food security for orphaned and vulnerable children around Luanshya, and Juliet’s role will involve training on caring for vulnerable children.

Mozambique:

  • Our 3 CBO leaders ... for clarity in direction for delivery of 3 services
  • For Care Workers ... to love the children as their own
  • For Children ... to know the love being offered is also the love of God

Zimbabwe:

  • Please pray for the piece of land purchasing process  and construction  of the care centre for the CBO to go according to plan for we are racing against time. Processes have been taking long because of the political situation.
  • For the Zim team to connect with the right people for some are opportunists
  • To get the right candidate for the bookkeeping position that needs to be filled up.
  • The farming God’s way that is to happen in Honde valley
  • The trained care workers to continue with the good work they have started.
  • The expansion of  our work in Zim in general
  • The political situation in Zim., there is still lots of tension between the two joint parties and some uncertainties.

24 hours of Prayer

We would like to invite you to join with us in a prayer this weekend. We feel God at this time calling us to reflection, restoration with him and a time of refining. We are gathering together for a time of prayer and fasting starting on this Friday, September 18 at 19h00 and end on Saturday, September 19 at 19h00. We would love for you to partner in prayer with us wherever you are as we: Prepare Our Hearts to Meet Our King!

We would like to share in this with you through our website where we will have scriptures to reflect on as well as an area for you to communicate with us on what God is revealing to you!

Listen to this message from George (mp3 file) and be expectant for what He has to show us through this time!

 

Service Centers

  • Please pray for wisdom and God's guidance as we add dozens of new local team members to Hands at Work Service Centres in all of our countries.
  • Please pray for the provision of ARV’s (treatment drugs for AIDS patients) in Likasi, DRC, where so many people continue to suffer and die when they do not need to.
  • “Emily Osborne and Alisha Volkman, who haven volunteering with the Kabwe Service Center since October 2008, left Kabwe in July 2009. Please thank God for Emily and Alisha and their humble service and pray that God will use them to teach others in North America about the beautiful things God is doing in Zambia.”