Mission in South Africa
Molelwane Village Church
Community Center and
Feeding Program
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The La Casa Board of Trustees, meeting in August 2007, approved a three year partnership with Helping Hands in South Africa (HHIA). The project will be centered in Molelwane Village near Mafiking, South Africa. We will build the church community center, provide a five-day-a-week feeding program with the children in the village, orphan care, AIDS education, and the cost of calling a pastor, for an amount not to exceed $150,000.00 over three years, until January 2011. The church is possible through the gifts of La Casa! From this there will be a base for the church to reach out in the community, have Sunday School and VBS, a feeding program and much more
La Casa's partnership with South Africa began several years ago, when a member of La Casa, Ron Meister, approached our pastors with a dream of serving in South Africa. His employer had visited South Africa through a group called Helping Hands in Africa (HHIA).
La Casa's Youth raised $3,000 for a water well in Molelwane Villiage. To read the letter of thanks from South Africa, Click Here.
As was mentioned by Pastor Garman in a recent sermon, we are called to go to "Jerusalem, Samaria, and the ends of the earth" to share the Gospel. We are excited about La Casa in South Africa, and will return in 2008 for the dedication of the church building. To learn more about HHIA, go to www.helpinghandsinafrica.org .