I mentioned I would show updates now and then from the soup kitchen and I guess I've been quite bad at that, since I don't really think we should 'boast' about doing the Lord's work, it should be something we just naturally do...
Then, come to think of it, if you don't see what we're doing, perhaps, we'd have a case of out of sight out of mind... we may forget that here in the heart of our city lives a community where some people are actually in abject poverty, living below the bread line on our door step... well, that just won't do, since the word says you will know our faith by our actions, we decided to take action.
Now, you would think, with us, wealthier people being on their doorstep, we'd be the biggest contributors to the Morning Star soup kitchen, well that just is not the case. In fact the biggest contributors are the Morning Star church and congregants themselves. As seen here in this video clip, Aunty Mona, is our 82 year old chef. She cooks bi-weekly for us, prepping the day before and cooking from early in the morning. Then, the actual groceries are supplied by the church who offer a percentage of their own tythes to feed their local community. To add to that, they have increased the size of their kitchen to grow the production of the soup kitchen.
We keep joking that we'll need to make bigger and more pots, but the fact of the matter is that's true, since the size of our soup kitchen's need has doubled in the last 2 weeks.
Now this, I would say was the aim of the soup kitchen, where we have had about 25-30 families coming in on a bi-weekly basis for soup, this last week we had approximately 50. Praise Jesus!
In the soup kitchen we would often find the people who are more rugged, like gang prone, would come in after we've given the word of God and just want to receive soup, but this last week the rugged gang prone came in and sat through the word and prayed with us.
All glory and honour to God who supplies all our needs and will reap the harvest of the seeds sown. May we continue to feed their spirit as long as we have breath in our lungs!
Moving to the Western Cape is both a dream and a calling for my family and I. You can read here the journey this has taken us to accomplish over the last 20 years of our married life.
We have been privileged to be positioned by the Lord in a unique manner to live and work within 2 different communities within one vicinity.
While we work and school and go to church in one community within Durbanville, we do outreach and serve and bring restoration to the underprivileged in Durbanville. I find this a unique situation, since most people would travel to the community they do outreach with, but we have the specific calling to do ministry with the people who live amongst us on a daily basis. This to me is a privilege, when I go to the shop I see the people, hear them speaking, know their needs their desires, relationships with family members, how it grieves or enthralls them. A very daring calling in that it calls me to be authentic in everything I do. People can see me get mad at my kids, they could see me when something doesn't go right in the queue at the counter, and I'm not good in those situations, so it calls me to take a good long hard look at myself and make decisions, when I've fallen, to make right and get back in line.
Back to the point, our outreaches:
We host a soup kitchen every 2nd Wednesday and this is with the sole purpose of helping those in need and also delivering a message that feeds the soul, bringing the many sons to glory as led by the Lord. We give a short evangelical message to bring the people not only into soup kitchen, but to the Lord's feet and try to build a relationship with them and grow their faith into knowing how to serve the Lord and thereby seeing lives change.
These are hosted on the same day as the soup kitchen, where the Lord has specifically directed us to "open the well" of worship over Durbanville and most specifically over Morning Star. The point of the worship evening is to invite the Lord to tabernacle with His people in and over the area. Bringing in the Presence of the Holy Spirit by building altars of prayer, worship and the reading of the word in and over the area and it's people. We have seen salvations and we trust for signs, wonders and miracles to ensue.
These are church services held with the specific intent to bring restoration back to the hearts of the people. People in this day and age have been traumatised by life, people in disadvantaged communities usually bare the brunt of what society has to dish out, so, in this area they are in dire need. Here is where we have seen miracles on massive scales, miracles of healing in the heart, healing in relationships (the first one that comes to mind is a grandfather whose grandson had lived with them his entire life, was now with wrong friends and not coming home at all, after praying for him on one night, the grandson had returned home the next week).
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I had a beautiful about page on my previous site and if you want to know how I started on my writing journey, you're welcome to check it out on https://orderingmayhem.co.za/
However, yesterday, 7th January just before I got the download of my calendar, I was contemplating who I am... who am I ... what are the nuts and bolts that make up Asnée... mmmmhhhh
Boy did I start off on the wrong track... I went straight in there for mother of 2... yes I am that, but there must be more... what happened before that... Uhhh yes.... wife... I'd had to have been a wife before I could have become mother of 2... yes... that's it, then I realised, no my life actually existed before I was married and so I went on to another obvious, like sibling, but more fundamentally a daughter to my parents... and then it hit me... I existed before that...
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