Monday 26 January 2009

LEARNING CENTRE SECURED FOR OUR 2010 ENGLISH LEARNING PROJECT

Hi Guys, so good to be back home in SA.
Our 3 month Hope In Africa Tour was amazing and we praise God for the new friendships made in England, Scotland & America. Thank you to all our new friends abroad for your kindness shown to us as a family and for your prayer support and words of encouragement.
We are very excited to have secured a Computer Learning Centre at Kings School in White River, from which we will operate our English Learning Project and TEFL Training.












When we were in the USA we sourced an amazing language learning program from Rosetta Stone which we will be using in our English Learning Project, the program covers two areas of need i.e. accelerated language learning and computer skills.
With SA hosting the FIFA Soccer World Cup in 2010 a lot of job opportunities are being created especially in the hospitality industry BUT our local people can only take advantage of these job opportunities if they can speak English. Using Rosetta Stone we will be able to offer an accelerated language learning opportunity and computer skills and provide many of our local people with the opportunity to be employed.
Our English Learning Project will benefit both adults seeking employment and the children at Kings School who cannot speak English.
The cost of the Rosetta Stone Internet subscription license (valid for 12 months) is $95 per license per year, we need to acquire 25 licenses which will cost us a total of $2375. Please pray with us for this amount as we are trusting for 25 donors who can contribute a once off amount of $95 each to cover these costs.
We would like to start our English Learning Project in mid February and should you know of anyone who would like to donate any finances towards our nation building initiative, please put us in contact with them.









Our goal for this year is to train 100 people in our English Learning Project.

In South Africa 1 employed local person supports a family of 7!
Join with us as we trust God to impact 700 lives this year by training 100 people in our English Learning Project.

Friday 2 January 2009

USA Christmas to a UK New year!

Christmas = White in USA.
New Year = Jetlagged in the UK.

We had an awesome Christmas day with Scot & Rene @ their place. The next week we played low ball just saying good-bye to our friends and wrapping up any unfinished business we had.

We were able to sign a contract as an affiliate with a TEFL school here which is an awesome value-add for HIA. As well as Present HIA's dream to a large church in Arvada.

Well we had an uneventful flight back to the UK where we're planning on heading on to Scotland for a couple of days to spend time with some old friends, Simon and Julia, who we met through my folks about three years ago. I'll DEFINATELY be looking for some nice landscape pics there ;-)

It feel like it's all kinda like downhill from here... it feels strange to be at the end of something you've been waiting for for close on 20 years. But we're determined to suck this trip dry of every morsel of marrow (called life) that God intends for us to take from this bone.
Below is a couple of pics saying the words which I fail to say as I don't have space for a thousand words a pic :-D

Thanksgiving Dinner with the Crows in Montana.
The first ever thanksgiving was with the American Indians... So was ours ;-)




Amanda with One of the orphans from the crow reserve.








Leon "whowearsabuffalo" Laubscher











Kids made gingerbread houses with Rene.



















The Amphitheatre: Everyone whose anyone in the music world has played here including people like Jimmy Henrix, The Beatles, Sting... Actually if you can name them and they're from the USA the chances of them having played here are very high. ;-)












Look we too can walk on water!! only catch is that this waters not moving.. anywhere for a looong time.







The Christmas Carolers in Downtown Denver.















We were blessed with a FREE carriage ride to see the Christmas lights of denver... it turns out it was the last ride of the season!





Christmas Lights in Denver

















Ronnie and Marcella under the lights.









Christmas with friends.








mmm.... And we call ourselves "chirstians" ? :-)











My Christmas gift!! Yay!!