Lockdown means no school but also not being able to get porridge early and a meal during breaktime which the schools with feeding schemes provide to many of the 5000 children whom Hey! minister to during the school term. An initiative was started by us to get donations to enable food parcels to be provided to needy families in some of these schools. The idea to give physical bread so to speak, where we normally share Jesus “the Bread of Life” John 6:48 is so exciting. The WCED provides some help which is amazing but the need out there is massive!

John Bunyan’s quote: “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you” in action today!! We asked for donations to enable us to buy food items for needy families of the schools where we minister and we were blessed by people whose hearts were stirred

Children from Danie Ackermann Primary School living in Garden village as well as learners from Temperance Town benefitted. A HUGE shout out to Pick n pay Gordon bay’s owner Mr Ram Moodley, as well as Samantha, Verena, Sam and others there who so kindly helped us with the process. Thank you to principals, Mr Mark Manus and Mrs Zay Windvogel, as well as Jonathan Brown. This was a massive team effort. Praise the Lord!!!

Food parcels were delivered by Hillsong Africa foundation to Chris Nissen park, where many of Danie Ackermann’s children live, as well as Temperance Town Primary School! Thanks to HAF!! We are so grateful! LOVE IN ACTION. Many families will have ingredients for quite a few meals! Families at Altena Primary School, where we usually serve, also received food parcels!

This project will not be possible without donations from people whose hearts are stirred to give and make an impact. To get all these items together, packed neatly for each family, is a huge task done with so much love and care by the Pick n Pay Gordon’s Bay team. Thank you!! The families are overjoyed and we are just in awe of God’s goodness!!

Food parcels went to families in Lwandle as well. They were picked up by Rachel who are one of our facilitators at Danie Ackermann Primary School. She lives there and helped get the food to the families. We are so grateful for sponsors’ donations enabling us to purchase food. Thanks once again to Pick n Pay Gordon’s Bay for sourcing all the items and packing everything for us! Like Mother Teresa said: “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop”. Yes, it is the one that matters!! Thank You Jesus that we can pray that You would multiply these food items.

The Hey! Food parcel project is still going strong thanks to donations as well as cooperation between principals and teachers helping us identify needy families. A look behind the scenes shows Agnes, Anna, Claudine and Berenice of CBP Wholesale hard at work packing all the products. Thank you to Friedel Hamm for all the help with this! May the Lord bless all the people involved and keep them safe and in good health! Without you this would not be possible!!

In Gauteng things have been just as busy. A payment was made to Brentwoodpark Primary School in support of 5 families in desperate need of food parcels. The school also decided to put some money toward an orphanage, ‘Huis Charis’, where a few of their learners reside.

At this stage there are 33 families who still need help in this area.  Please help us to help these families.

Looking back at the last few weeks of the Hey! Food parcel project we can testify of God’s provision and His favour! Making a difference to children whose families are hard hit by the Covid19 pandemic. The numbers so far: 490 families benefitted from food parcels and more than a 1000 children received meals for which Hey! could provide ingredients. Still coordinating with our school principals to guide us which best way to assist in each area!

You can be part of this amazing journey by donating!!!
Hey! Bank details:
Hope Explosion Youth Ministry
FNB – 200512
Cheque Acc: 62300088855
Reference: food parcels

THANK YOU FOR IMPACTING IN A POSITIVE WAY!

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Goeiemore!

Hier is die nuusbrief wat ek vanoggend na Beaumont ouers gestuur het om te bedank vir bydraes vir uitreik 2019! Ek het gedink jy sal dit geniet om die briefie te kry en te deel in spesiale oggend op die manier.

Dit was wonderlik om ook die gr R klas by te hê die jaar. Vir die eerste keer in 9 jaar kon ons buiten die geskenke vir die maatjies na wie ons uitreik asook die juffrouens wie met hulle werk ook vir elke skooltjie n goeie kwalitiet sokkerbal en hoola hoops koop!! Dus kan almal die items saam benut. Die Here het regtig Bo natuurlik voorsien in die fynste detail en selfs my gebed om die kans gegun te word om tog met die kinders te kan sing en dans verhoor! Dit was verlede jaar gestop gewees deur die reservaat.

Aangeheg die briefie met n paar fototjies – daar is soveel mooi fotos maar ek dink hierdie gee die hartklop weer van die dag!

Liefde groete

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I would love to share some HEY! Nuggets with pictures!

A definite highlight must be the blessed Hope4Kids training by Chris Bester in Macassar. This is a picture of all those who completed the training. These people will now start facilitating the course in schools in Macassar, Firgrove as well as Die Ark. We as HEY! will help the individuals with the implementation and planning and guide them. How amazing to see God opening new doors to further His Kingdom!

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord ’s favor has come. ” Luke 4:18-19 NLT

We realize what a huge responsibility but also honour it is to be able to share God’s Word at assemblies at schools like Temperance Town. We had a wonderful prayer meeting there in the “Lighuis” container and we are planning to do training in November in the community to empower and equip people from within the area to start serving at the school. We know that this is the only way to really reach more children as well as adults and one by one changing communities by bringing Hope you can only find in Jesus!

There is so much power in synergy and working together with other ministries or like-minded people. Sonia’s Thrive Centre is hosting a monthly market where people can sell the products they have made. The ladies from Chris Nissen park have enjoyed thetraining andequipping sessions so much with other people who all have the same purpose. Thank you to all who have supported them so far. They are working hard to produce more cement products to sell at next market on 5 October.

The joy of receiving your own Bible is so visible on the face of this Danie Ackermann pupil! He is one of the leaders helping in the Grade 7 class. The Word of God is the Sword of the Spirit and the power of using the Scriptures every day is so important to us at HEY! We make sure children get a printed memory verse to keep and by repetition and fun methods teach Bible verses so they won’t forget it!

This weekend HEY! had the honour of facilitating the Shofar Convergence’s Kids conference with a great team from the church. The theme was “sound of the harvest” and what better program than Hope4Kids to equip children to share the Gospel with other people. It was a wonderful weekend and children as well as team enthusiastically participated. The amazing grace of “the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life” Romans 6:23 came alive and all realized that we can be so grateful for Jesus’ free gift to each who accept Him. This is what we want to tell the world and shine our light in the dark world out there! The world needs JESUS ?

Thank you for your continued support, we do appreciate it so very much. The ministry to thousands of children every week would not have been possible without the help and support of people like you. As we grow and more places reached in disadvantaged areas the bigger the need for additional funding.

If you want to make a donation to help the Kingdom Expansion which is taking place through HEY!

Bank details:

Hope Explosion Youth Ministry

FNB – 200512

Cheque Acc:  62300088855

OR  use SNAPSCAN to donate.

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We are so excited!  Our new video on our ministry is available.

Our ministry is growing fast and we give God all the glory.

Thanks to Dillan Roselt for your amazing work!

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I would love to share some April HEY! Nuggets with pictures!  For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord . “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

Jeremiah 29:11-13 NLT We can testify of this every day!

In Gauteng we are grateful for new ground and a total of 680 little ones being ministered to at Verkenner Primary, +/- 180 Edleen Pre Primary school and 30 Bizzy Bees.

Below is a collage of the 1^st week of prayer walk on school grounds at Danie Ackermann. Each picture spoke to our hearts through the Holy Spirit’s prompting and encouraged us. We came together as volunteers, worshipped and prayed together and then walked on school grounds and surrendered the grounds on which we work here to the Lord. Prayed for many teachers and general workers too. It was powerful!

A new breaktime Bible study opportunity for Somerset West primary learners. It is facilitated by one of our volunteers Mathew whose passion is to break open the Word for children. He journeys through the gospel of Mark and it is amazing to see children hungry for more of Jesus and the Word!

In conjunction with City of Cape Town Hey! is assisting with the Truancy program at Sir Lowrys pass primary school. We have the opportunity to speak into the boys lives who have been identified by school as “trouble makers and difficult cases” We know that only a solid identity in Christ can change hearts and value this chance to possibly change a leader with negative influence to someone who can lead with integrity. We can already see a difference!  After the time of encouragement by Hey! David from creative smile events takes over with cadettes and drumming and he literally drills some discipline into the boys which they sadly lack. This program will be rolled out at different schools.

The picture below was taken at the 1^st session…boys were still arrogant and really had a don’t care attitude. Few weeks later and quite a different posture already so happy!

Thank you for your continued support, we do apreciate it so very much. The ministry to thousands of children every week would not have been possible without the help and support of people like you.

Warm regards

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What a lovely problem to have – too much too tell and too little space to do it! Attached you will find a few words and news nuggets on the last two months. All we know is that our Heavenly Father is busy with a beautiful HEY! puzzle and has all the pieces sorted out. To surrender every day in His hands is exactly what we must and will continue to do.

Thank you for your continued support, we do appreciate it so very much. The ministry to thousands of children every week would not have been possible without the help and support of people like you.

Click here to read what happened in March

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Hier is verlede week se uitreik nuus. Dit was so ‘n spesiale dag en ons kan die Here net die eer gee vir die suksesvolle dag!

’n Groot dankie aan elke Beaumont ouer wie bygedra het en dit moontlik gemaak het om geskenkpakkie, hoedjie met HEY!logo, koek, JC’s, gekenkies vir elke helper by die creches wie ons genooi het te kon koop. Daar was beslis meer gespeel gewees die jaar met die musiek situasie maar dit het ons nie gekeer om steeds ‘n fantasiese tyd te gehad het nie. Daar was ‘n rustigheid en lag en liefwees wat oral teenwoordig was. Ek moet ook spesiaal dankie sê aan elke gr 2 en hul onderwyseresse wie die geskenkpakkies so kunstig en met liefde versier en verpak het! Dis ‘n spanpoging soos min en elke jaar staan ek verstom hoe alles net so vlot verloop.

Die gebede van soveel vir die voorbereidings en dag self het die basis gevorm en kan my maar net weer laat getuig dat dat soveel krag in gebed is -Jakobus 5:16.

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Goeiedag!

Dis ‘n uitdaging om die regte woorde te kry om elkeen te bedank wie ‘n aandeel in die geseënde uitreik by die Helderberg Natuureservaat gehad het Vrydag 24 November. Soms vertel ‘n foto meer as wat woorde kan..en daarom die lywige nuusbrief van 2 bladsye. Dit was ‘n groot sukses en elkeen se bydrae was onontbeerlik om die dag so spesiaal te gemaak het vir elke kind (en volwassens glo ek!)

Bowenal kom die lof en eer ons Hemelse Vader toe en wat mooier as ‘n vers uit Psalms om ons dank te betuig  “Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You. So will I bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.” PSALM 63:3-4 AMP

Groete

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Aangeheg vind asb ons laaste nuusbrief vir die jaar. Daar was werklik soveel om te deel en ek kon net ‘n paar kort brokkies neerstip. Weet ook dat dit maar ‘n druppeltjie in die emmer is teenoor wat alles die kwartaal in detail gebeur het!

Ek sluit die jaar af deur ‘n paar Bybelverse wat as seen en bemoediging aan jou gegee word neer te pen. Sit dit in jou hart?

“In the morning, O Lord , You will hear my voice; In the morning I will prepare [a prayer and a sacrifice] for You and watch and wait [for You to speak to my heart].”

PSALM 5:3 AMP

Mag jy elke dag en veral ook in die vakansietyd met God begin en mag jy Sy stem hoor en Hom waarneem in die mooi natuur waar ons tipies gaan uitspan om te rus.. die see… berge.. riviere…bos…

“Die oppermagtige Here het my geleer sodat ek dié wat moeg is moed kan inpraat. Elke môre maak Hy my wakker en leer my luister soos dit ’n leerling betaam. Die oppermagtige Here het my ore oopgemaak. Ek was nie teen Hom opstandig nie. Ek was nie ontrou aan Hom nie”

Jes.50.4-5.NLV

Ons beskermings gebed aan jou is die volgende: “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord , And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord “Isa.54.17.NKJV Spreek lewe elke dag deur Skrif te bid oor jou en jou geliefdes se lewe en weet en hou vas daaraan dat:

“For no word from God will ever fail.” Luk.1.37.NIV

In die Kerstyd waar ons die geboorte van ons Verlosser, Jesus herdenk, is die woorde “gee” en “gawes” prominent maar onthou dat Jesus dit vir ons onverdiend gee! “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows” Jas.1.17.NIV

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Beste ouers!

Ons wil julle bedank vir elke donasie wat hierdie uitreik so spesiaal gemaak het! Daar was soveel mense wie elk hul deel bygedra het om dit ‘n onvergeetlike dag te maak – weet verseker dat elkeen teenwoordig ‘n wonderlike tyd gehad het. Dié wie aan die “gee” kant was kon getuig “dis saliger om te gee as om te ontvang”

Die weer was fantasties  en die koeke (daar was 10 ) baie smaaklik en sommige kinders het sommer 3 of 4 keer kom kry!  Ons het die jaar ook pette laat druk met die HEY! logo op om aan die kinders wie genooi was van  Croydon crèche, Rustenhofplaas, Babbel en Krabbel en Hope&light te gee as geskenk en dit was absoluut ‘n wenner!

Dis asof elke jaar se uitreik net lekkerder is en beter verloop as die vorige jaar!

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