Vitamins for Beveni

Sunday, November 8 is Orphan Sunday! http://www.orphansunday.org/

Tom, Anthony, Aidyn and I are spending Sunday Nov 8 using our feet to walk to raise awareness of and funds for the 102 orphans and vulnerable children of the Beveni Carepoint in Swaziland. It has been such a joy and privilege to coordinate care and sponsors for the kids there! Now we have the opportunity to do something extraordinary for them but we need help!

We have a connection with a ministry that will supply vitamins at a penny a pill! So $1.02 a day will supply each child at Beveni with vitamins. Add a few pennies more, and we can provide the go go’s as well (including calcium pills, 4 for a penny).

We have been blessed with a team of incredible people in South Africa who voluntarily travel to Beveni every 4-6 weeks. They are willing to accept the shipment of vitamins to deliver to the carepoint.

Our family goal on Orphan Sunday is to raise $600: that is enough to purchase all the vitamins needed for one year and for shipping them to South Africa for delivery to the carepoint.

Of course, we also don’t mind raising more than that, for surely much is needed by the Beveni Community! We are already looking ahead to providing electricity and fruit trees, so any money we raise will be put to great use!

If you are interested in learning more about the ministry of Vitamins 4 the World, please visit their web site: www.vitamins4theworld.org. It was started by a retired pharmacist who formulates the different vitamins and has them produced here in the USA. It is his desire to work with ministries to provide vitamins for the poor, the orphaned and the vulnerable around the world.

If you are able to help us reach our goal, please go to this link to make your secure, tax deductible donations: https://secure.pursuantgroup.net/pursuant4/hopechest/chcselect/donation.asp

In the notes section, please write: Beveni Orphan Sunday Walk

We appreciate any gift and all prayers for the Beveni community. God is accomplishing so much there, through His big kids for His little ones!

In Him, with joy and anticipation!
Deb Gangemi

The Beveni garden has been started

Thanks to a gal I met on Facebook, and her team of adults and youth, the garden at Beveni has been started!

Annalize lives in South Africa. She and a group of people from her church spent last weekend in Swaziland, at the Beveni Carepoint, with the goal of starting a garden for the 102 vulnerable children and orphans cared for there.

They were concerned the land would be too hard to dig, as the drought has been extensive. So they prayed that God would give rain.....and He did! A gentle rain fell for most of the weekend, making it possible to dig a garden and plant pumpkin, onions and spinach.

I had a phone call from Bob Mudd, COO of Children' HopeChest , this morning. He was at Beveni when he called. He wanted us to know that it is a place full of life.......full of children.......and full of food!

We can and are making a difference. This faith community, created through the power of social networking of Facebook, has resulted in a group of people from Canada, the USA and South Africa being the hands and feet of Jesus to a group of children in Swaziland. He is a very BIG God, and totally able to accomplish His will: that we love one another and that we start looking more and more like His Son!