We are very excited about our new packaging! The grey felt bag is made and also embroidered by Ouma Elsa Smuts in Paarl, South Africa. We are truly grateful for all her hard work and enthusiasm.
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NEW HOPE bracelet Posted 10 November 2011
Our new HOPE bracelet was inspired by the JOY bracelet. We identified nine different values which we feel are very important in all societies of the world today.
Many outreaches and ministries have already started using and incorporating the HOPE bracelet (in conjunction with the JOY bracelet) in their programmes.
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NEW ARRIVALS Posted 10 November 2011
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HOPE Posted 10 November 2011
"While there is hope there is life."
Hope comes first, life follows. Hope gives power to life. Hope rouses life to continue, to expand, to grow, to reach out, to go on.
Hope sees a light where there isn't any.
Hope lights candles in millions of despairing hearts.
Hope is the miracle medicine of the mind. It inspires the will to live.
Hope is the physician's strongest ally.
Hope is our shield and buckler against defeat.
"Hope," wrote Alexander Pope, "springs eternal in the human breast." And as long as it does we will triumph and move forward.
Hope never sounds retreat. Hope keeps the banners flying.
Hope revives ideals, renews dreams, revitalizes visions.
Hope scales the peak, wrestles with the impossible, achieves the highest aim.
"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.
- Wilferd A. Peterson -
OUTREACHES FOR 2011 Posted 10 November 2011
We had the privilege of donating over 8,000 "caring sharing" JOY bracelets to more than 30 outreaches this year.
Apart from South Africa, some went to Namibia, Swaziland, India, Iran, Israel , Italy, USA, Cambodia, North Korea, China, Australia and New Zealand.
A huge THANK YOU to all our volunteers and also Portia and Crystal for all their hard work. They all are a blessing to the world!
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This Christmas and during 2012 -
"May the God of HOPE fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 15:13
Vir Kersfees en 2012 -
"Ek bid dat God in wie julle julle hoop stel, julle lewe vol sal maak met blydskap en vreugde. Dan sal julle wat so vasberade in Hom glo en wat die krag van die Heilige Gees in julle lewe ervaar, nog meer uitsien na die koms van die Here."
"Elke nuwe dag bring nuwe hoop. Hoop is die vleuels van die waarheid en geloof is die rigting. En die Een op wie ons hoop, is God wat elke nuwe môre bring. Want soos elke nuwe oggend aanbreek, so vernuwe die hoop. En onthou, elke nuwe dag is uniek. Daar was in die ewigheid nog nie so 'n dag nie en wanneer alles eindig, sal daar nie weer so een wees nie. God vernuwe elke dag sy skepping. Hy vernuwe ons, Hy vernuwe die hoop. Hy vernuwe die hart. Ons kan maar bergop gaan. Ons kan maar tot in sy arms spring."
- Stephan Joubert -
Blessings,
Nelia, Elsa en Annette
Posted 10 November 2011
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