Things are fired up at BCC

Some of you might have received some of these photos but I have a “group” of addresses that I use and the information I am sending is additional information.

In the last 5 weeks, Lorna and Marty have been working non-stop, accomplishing a lot. As long they have fresh brewed coffee, they keep on going!

As it has been reported BCC “adopted” two creches in Bloekombos (area where BCC is) and we are helping them to upgrade the facilities.

In some of the photos you will see a “before” and the “after” – toilets that consisted on a few tins now have proper toilets, tiles have been put on the floors, walls have been re-painted, toys which have been donated and we don’t have use at BCC, went to the creches, etc, etc, etc. There’s a guy (handyman -his name is Video) who works at the school where Lorna worked before and on weekends he’s been coming to help us in various things – he appears in some of the photos – he and Marty make a good team.

We now can see that when we were VERY disappointed when the local government closed the creche we had running at BCC, the Lord turned into a bigger blessing that the creche would have been; BCC is a channel of blessings to the community, through these other creches.

The English classes are also going full steam; they have now divided into groups so they have classes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

On Tuesday evenings Lorna and Marty are attending a Xhosa conversation class (can you believe it, the teacher is an Afrikaans gentleman who is fluent in Xhosa) and the majority of the group is Afrikaans; so we were joking last night that Marty paid to learn Xhosa but now he’s also learning Afrikaans !!!!

Marty’s access to email is on-off because of the poor signal he gets at Anathoth, so take notice of this when he doesn’t reply to emails – he doesn’t always get them in one shot.

The other day, Lorna was talking to a mother of one of the children who was at the Aftercare where Lorna worked up to July last year, and Lorna was saying to this mother about the needs at BCC, and one of the needs is the ad-hoc need of someone who works with wood. There was a guy working at this lady’s house’s roof, who was on a ladder and sometime he asked Lorna if this children centre was the one in Bloekombos; then he said that many times when he was unemployed he went there to get soup, so now he can “pay back” by offering his services when he’s “off-duty”. The soup kitchen is having far more reaching effects than anyone of us could imagine.

Anyway, these are some of the news – others will follow sometime.