Greetings in Jesus’ Name,
Thank you God for your faithfulness,
may Your justice continue to roll on like a river, and righteousness like waves
for we can do everything through Christ who gives us strength.
Praise for God
Hands at Work has just turned ten years old!
It is amazing what, with God’s grace and guidance, has been accomplished in 10 years. From a small beginning Hands has developed into an organisation to reach and support thousands of vulnerable children.
We are grateful for prayers, support and encouragement from friends and family worldwide!
Prayer Requests
Please pray that churches and communities will mobilize and respond to the needs of vulnerable children.
Please pray for community programs that will enable children to grow their own crops to provide essential nutrition in their diets.
Pray that children, taken in by other families living in extremely difficult and crowded conditions will not be abused.
Pray that orphaned siblings will be able to live together or at least remain in contact with each other.
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
Urgent prayer is needed as rebels have entered Luhongo Village where Hands at Work has begun care for very vulnerable children.
Pray for grannies and children fleeing to the woods to be protected.
Pray that Care Givers will be able to find these children.
Pray that feeding schemes to be restarted as everything has been disrupted due to rebel activities.
Who ever welcomes one of these little children in my name
welcomes Me.
Mark 9:37
Be blessed,
Oumie Snyman
For the Lord loves justice, he will never abandon his faithful ones.
Greetings to our Prayer Warriors,
UK
George Snyman has been invited to travel to the UK from the 4th to the 16th of this October.
Pray for God's grace, wisdom and discernment as he speaks in churches and meets with people. Pray that all who hear him will have an open heart to God's message of love for poor and vulnerable children.
Pray for travelling mercies for George and that his health will be protected.
ZAMBIA
Pray for our Service Center and Regional Support Team members from around Africa as they come together in Zambia from 21st to 24th October.
Pray that they will be lead by the Spirit and the work will be forwarded out of this time spent together.
Please pray for the vision trip for church leaders from Canada and America which George Snyman will be leading the first week of November. They will spend time together in Zambia and Malawi. Pray that God will prepare the hearts of those coming on the trip and prepare the way for them to connect with and be an encouragement to our communities.
NIGERIA
In October a team from our Hands at Work Hub in South Africa will be going to Nigeria to support our Service Centre.
Pray for their health and safety. That they will build relationships and be guided by God’s wisdom in all their decisions.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO
Zambian Regional Support Team are doing training and supporting the Service Centre in the Democratic Republic Congo.
As this is a very volatile area with many challenges please pray for their safety, building relationships and wisdom in their work.
Pray for God's justice to reign and for his faithful ones to be protected as it says in Psalm 37v28:
For the Lord loves justice,
he will never abandon his faithful ones.
They will be protected forever.
For Zimbabwe and Mozambique
The Lord is my strength and my song;
He has become my salvation.
He is my God, and I will praise Him.
Exodus 15 : 2
This week please pray for Zimbabwe:
That the South Africa Regional Support Team will be able to strengthen their support to our Service Centre in Zimbabwe.
For Farai as he leads our Zimbabwe Service Centre and work which touches communities around Mutare and stretches in to Mozambique, and for the Service Centre team which includes: Barbra in her finance role, Florence in her field coordinator role and Mildred in her hospitality role. Pray that they would be able to mobilise more churches to come and be a part of this work.
Please pray for Sakubve Community, an urban slum outside Mutare, Zimbabwe which faces extreme poverty, rates or prostitution and abuse. Please pray for Pricilla in her role as coordinator of this community based organisation. Thank God for the Care Worker's perseverance in this community as they face overwhelming challenges in their work each day. Pray for them as they make a plan to care for the most vulnerable in their community, that they would find favour in their work.
Please pray for Pimai Community in Honda Valley, Zimbabwe. Pray for the new Care Centre they have just opened up, that it would aid in their ability to be able to care for the vulnerable children in their village. Please also pray for a water source to be found near the Care Centre so that the Care Workers could begin the garden they want to for their children. Pray for the Care Workers as they advocate for their children to be able to attend the already overcrowded schools, and that they will have strength to continue to walk huge distances over their mountainous area to reach their kids.
Please pray for Macedera Community in Mozambique, a very rural community where the nearest clinic or high school is a full days travel away. Pray for Faustino and Dara as they support this community, and they work towards getting Hands at Work registered in Mozambique. Thank God for the land that this community has been given to utilize in their work of caring for the most vulnerable. Pray that Care Workers would know deeply the work to which they are called, and that they would continually be motived by God's Spirit to continue in this work.
A Pathway Through the Wilderness
Greetings to all who faithfully pray for HANDS AT WORK
For I am about to do something new.
See, I have already begun. Do you not see it?
I will make a pathway through the wilderness,
I will create rivers in the dry wasteland
Isaiah 43 : 19
Please keep these countries and their communities in your prayers as we continue with training of our care workers in WALKING WITH WOUNDED CHILDREN.
1. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO
2. SOUTH AFRICA AND SWAZILAND
Please pray specifically that the right people will be identified in South Africa and Swaziland to become facilitators of the training for all the communities in that area.
Pray that all facilitators will be able to balance their new responsibilities with their regular care workers responsibilities.
3. ZAMBIA, MALAWI AND ZIMBABWE.
Please pray for the facilitators in these countries, that they will be able to train the Care Workers to apply their knowledge to bring continued transformation to their own lives and their communities .
That there will be a way to continue mentorship of our facilitators as they face many challenges and are scattered in many places.
Be blessed in Jesus’ Name
Oumie.
His Name will be Glorified
Greetings to all.
Thank you for everyone who faithfully pray for vulnerable children. I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Saviour
Habakkuk 3 : 18
Zambia is hosting Hands at Work Africa Celebration (Conference) during 25, 26, 27 April. We will have delegates from all eight countries in Africa and International visitors.
PLEASE PRAY:
- That all internationals attending will have travelling mercies, smooth border crossings and health protection.
- All participating speakers will have wisdom and discernment as they share.
- That hospitality will have all the logistical preparation in order.
- Those present will be challenged and encouraged to advocate for vulnerable children.
- That God’s Name will be glorified.
Be blessed
Oumie.
They Will Be Filled
Greetings to all in Jesus’ Name,
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR THEY WILL BE FILLED. Matthew 5 : 6
Please pray for:
MALAWI
For good rains so that they can have a bumper harvest and children can be fed. For the children caring for their ill and dying parents parents to be comforted and supported by the body of Christ. Pray that God will protect the children against witch craft which is practiced in many villages.
BUSHBUCKRIDGE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Bushbuckridge is one of the poor rural areas in South Africa where Handsatwork is working with vulnerable children in a number of villages. One the biggest challenges these children face is to obtain clean water. They often have to walk long distances and wait for hours in the line to obtain clean water at a community water point. Pray for their safety as it places these children in a situation that can be potentially vulnerable. That the problem will be solved by successful sinking of boreholes.
Thank you,
Be blessed.
Oumie.