South Africa Partnership Mission Trip Pictures

                                                     Anne Gordon Curran, Chair

                                                                        2008

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians: 6:2

ECW TEAM TRIP TO SOUTH AFRICA

<The March/April 2008 Travel Team to South Africa. From left: Bobbie Smith, Gladys Lewis, Sharon Kilpatrick, Jan Barbano, Anne Gordon Curran and in front, Phenie Gotlatt.  The ladies had just received African day dresses and marriage blankets among other gifts.

>Ruh Tare and Aletta, nursing instructors who train the home care providers on proper patient care.  Reclining is the patient manikin which was purchased by the Partnership Committee with your donations and he/she is name “Cew” for ECW.

<The Ven. David Dinkebogile after a funeral at a feast traditionally held at the home of the family of the deceased.  He is flanked by two African mothers in traditional dress.

>Queen Poonyane (President of the Anglican Women’s Fellowship) and Jean Roy (Link Committee) help make crafts which are sold as a diocesan Women’s Project activity.  Our ECW-SAP Committee is now selling some  of their crafts.

<The Rev. Gijimane Redebe in his new church, St. Monica’s Anglican, with Sharon Kilpatrick listening.

>The Mother’s Union meeting for prayer and song at St. Juke’s Anglican Church.

<Three African ladies who bake bread daily in clay ovens for the children in day care programs at St. Luke’s Anglican Church.

>Three youth who have been trained as “peer-trainees” and they work at the “Y Life Center”, Orange Farm, receiving a stipend for their effort.  They teach sex education, about HIV/AIDS, teen pregnancy, etc.  With them are Jan Barbano and Gladys Lewis.

<A black African cemetery only discovered two years ago under thick overgrowth at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Henley-on-Klip.  The graves are over 100 years old.

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